If you thinks that all immigrants should be legal and all guns illegal, you one can not read and understand the constitution, two you are a liberal. From the mental midget, James Kirchick, Daily Beast [1]:
Why don’t gun control advocates like Hillary Clinton talk about the one gun control solution that could actually fix the firearms problem in America?
Thirty thousand people are killed by firearms each year in the United States, an astronomically high figure for a developed Western country not in a state of civil war.
President Obama reminds Americans of this sad statistic with depressing regularity, and he did so again earlier this month, after a mass shooting in Oregon took the lives of nine people. “We know there are ways to prevent it,” the president said.
Meanwhile in Mayor Rahm Emanuel gun free utopia, the People’s Republic of Chicage, from Jeremy Gorner et al, Chicago Tribune: [2]
A robbery was thwarted at a Southwest Side corner store Saturday night when a patron with a concealed carry license shot and killed an armed robber, authorities said.
The dead man has been identified as Reginald Gildersleeve, 55, of the 5000 block of South California Avenue, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Gildersleeve was pronounced dead on the scene at 7:10 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office. An autopsy is slated for Sunday.
Citing preliminary information, police said a man walked into a store in the 2700 block of West 51st Street in the Gage Park neighborhood around 7 p.m., announced a robbery to an employee working behind the counter and displayed a handgun.
The wet dream of idiots like Kirchick, Mrs. Clinton and Barack Obama is confiscate the legally own guns, such as the patron who shot and killed the late Reginald Gildersleeve, yet would leave criminals like Gildersleeve with all their illegal guns. In a civil society free citizens are free to carry arms. In a Marxist society, the serfs are not allows weapons. Kirchick, Clinton and Obama want you to be serfs.
Just don’t call the late Mr. Gildersleeve a criminal [3].
Hate tip, Sarah Hoyt, Instapundit [4].
More armed citizens and more dead felons like the late Mr. Gilddersleeve make for a more civil society.
Reax, John Hinderaker, Power Line [5]:
I disagree in this respect: the Second Amendment doesn’t cause “tens of thousands of unwanted deaths.” Sixty percent of the deaths by firearms are suicides, and private ownership of guns deters an unknown, but likely substantial, number of homicides and other violent crimes. Moreover, as I have written several times, the U.S. has reduced its homicide rate more successfully than Australia or other anti-gun countries like the U.K. Currently, the violent crime rate is higher in the U.K. than in the U.S. Reducing “gun violence” is not a desirable goal to the extent that one merely forces murderers to use other weapons.
It is impossible to make a rational argument that while abortion, the willful decision to kill a living human being, is merely a choice, but that suicide is somehow a problem.
File under Hoplobobia.