The nearly 90-year-old federal law restricting short-barreled rifles has been superceded by time and technology. It’s past time the Supreme Court took notice.
Gun control disarms regular people, which makes them easier targets for regular criminals to victimize, and it does pretty much zilch against dedicated mass killers.
Heller v. D.C. held that the Second Amendment protects private firearm ownership. So how has Washington, D.C. managed to shut out thousands of law-abiding residents from getting carry permits?
Holding gun makers responsible for gun crime would be a frontal assault on an industry, on our constitutional rights, and the principles of individual responsibility that undergird our legal system.
If Congress is going to discriminate against 18-21 year-olds by requiring them to jump through certain hoops to buy a gun, shouldn’t it also impose the same rules on “similarly situated” people?
The failures of the same old gun control laws should warn us away from the easy route of penalizing virtually all American gun owners who will never commit a crime with their guns.
Joe Biden, who can’t remember D-Day but can’t wait to take your guns, should spur us to remember what happens when those with all the power have all the guns.
Don’t rely upon the police, or anyone, to do what you can and should do for yourself and whatever innocents are in your orbit. And don’t fetishize the gun.
Seizing the rifles of law abiding American citizens won’t stop criminals intent upon murdering others anymore than locking healthy Americans in their homes slowed the spread of COVID.