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D.C. proves gun bans don’t work

Posted 10 Jul 2007 in gun control, hypocrisy, liberals

Gun control is one of my pet peeves.

Taking away a Constitutional right – as with Washington, D.C.’s total ban on handguns – does nothing to deter criminals. Case in point: D.C.’s deputy mayor was robbed at gunpoint in broad daylight. (h/t: Michelle Malkin)

Disarming law-abiding citizens doesn’t increase safety, it simply makes it easier for violent predators to carry out their felonies. Conversely, armed citizens make our society better by protecting citizens and deterring crime. Just ask Texas Democrat Boris Miles, who voted against a bill giving Texans stronger rights to defend themselves with deadly force, yet he shot a thief at a construction site Monday night.

More do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do from gun grabbing fascists.

Remember Rosie O’Donnell, the rabid gun control advocate and loudmouth 9/11 troofer who got a lot of heat over hiring an armed bodyguard for her son while publicly decrying private firearm ownership?

Now we’ve got Rev. Jesse Jackson organizing a nonsensical 25-city anti-gun protest as well. The idiotic attention whore has his priorities all wrong, in typical liberal fashion. Rather than going after the gangs and the ignorant mentality that fuels their culture of violence, he chooses to focus his ire on the objects they use. That’s like being angry at cars because of drunk drivers. The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is organizing a counter-protest, being that they come at this issue from a much more level-headed – and Constitutional – point of view.

Jackson’s day of national protest is timed on the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s 1963 March on Washington, D.C.

“The great hypocrisy here,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan M. Gottlieb, “is that Dr. King’s historic march was to promote and defend civil rights. What Jesse Jackson is planning is designed to crush America’s most important civil right. A right that Dr. King exercised by owning a handgun.”

Jackson wants to limit the number of firearms a person may purchase in a calendar year, place new restrictions on who is allowed to legally own a handgun, and mandate longer waiting periods.

“While Jackson and his gun-grabbing cronies want to make it more difficult, if not impossible, for average Americans to keep and bear arms,” Gottlieb said, “gun owners can exercise their Constitutional rights, and tell their lawmakers to defend the Second Amendment. They can visit a gun shop, buy a gun or ammunition, or visit a range and exercise their rights.

“Being from Chicago,” Gottlieb said, “it is astonishing that Jackson has failed to see the correlation between that city’s Draconian handgun ban and Chicago’s violent crime rate, yet he wants to lead a nationwide protest against a constitutionally-protected civil right. Rev. Jackson evidently has forgotten the question raised in Luke, Chapter 6: ‘Can the blind lead the blind’?”

Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT

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