{"id":878,"date":"2007-06-01T03:46:07","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T09:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/06\/01\/dim-free-zone\/"},"modified":"2007-05-31T16:01:51","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T22:01:51","slug":"dim-free-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=878","title":{"rendered":"Dim-Free Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Strib, William Robiner recycles a tired old idea<\/a> for solving gun violence:<\/p>\n

We should demand that our federal, state, and local leaders…muster the courage to quell the violence here by standing up to the gun lobby, and outlawing assault weapons and handguns. Why wait any longer to liberate our campuses, neighborhoods, and places of worship of the guns that make them unsafe?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When faced with the need to answer such dim addled bilge, after years of answering it over and over and over and over again, the question “Good Lord, why?” springs to mind.\u00a0 “Because gun bans never work”, of course, is the answer, backed by ample statistics showing that the gun-totinest places in the US (the rural west) are by far the safest; that “shall issue” laws have at worst <\/em>caused no harm, and at best have cut violent crime rates; that banning guns increases violence.<\/p>\n

But occasionally one encounters a new lie that the left uses in its insane drive to disarm the American people.\u00a0 Robiner doesn’t disappoint; put another way, Robiner disappoints:<\/p>\n

Our nation’s strategy for securing peace in other parts of the world includes ridding violent societies, such as Afghanistan or Iraq, of the widespread weapons that undermine their peace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Robiner is an idiot, of course; in most of Iraq, every family <\/em>is allowed a fully automatic AK-series assault rifle <\/em>as defense against bandits and thugs.\u00a0 The coalition is trying to get things like RPGs (anti-tank bazookas) and explosives removed from the population.\u00a0 To compare the two is to Fecke the facts.<\/p>\n

The Virginia Tech shooter used a Glock 19 semi-automatic weapon and a Walther. In less than 10 minutes he fired approximately 170 bullets. In the face of such firepower, do even the most ardent technophiles really believe that quicker communication systems could deliver people to safety?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, if they did, they’d be stupid!\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0Do those counting on the mental health system to provide a safety net lose confidence when they hear mental health professionals readily acknowledge their limited ability to predict violence?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They should lose confidence indeed!\u00a0<\/p>\n

Restricting gun control efforts to them is ineffective.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As, history shows is, are efforts to restrict gun “control” efforts to the law-abiding!\u00a0<\/p>\n

The incident at Virginia Tech was foreseeable in the sense that if such handguns are available they will, at times, be used on innocents. It will happen again on U.S. campuses, on the streets, and even in places of sanctuary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Even though they are\u00a0mostly “gun-free” today!<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

No, Mr. Robiner,\u00a0absolute gun bans\u00a0on school grounds didn’t save a\u00a0single life in the United States.<\/p>\n

But armed, law-abiding citizens did.<\/p>\n

Far from Robiner’s myopic, totalitarian solition, it’s time to get more <\/em>guns out into the hands of the law-abiding – and thence out onto the streets.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the Strib, William Robiner recycles a tired old idea for solving gun violence: We should demand that our federal, state, and local leaders…muster the courage to quell the violence here by standing up to the gun lobby, and outlawing assault weapons and handguns. Why wait any longer to liberate our campuses, neighborhoods, and places […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}