Thursday, April 21, 2011

Out Of Control Gun Control In America

Gun Controllers Are Blind & Obsessed

Gun control has been out of control for decades thanks to fanatic gun controllers who engage constantly in senseless battles of moral superiority and waste enormous resources. Further, and not less disturbing, theses narrow minded gun controllers prevent or subvert any serious debate among reasonable adults about such killings like in Tucson or Virginia Tech or Amish school children and so forth.

Abuse & Exploitation Of A Nation’s Trauma

In the wake of the high profile assassinations of US President John F. Kennedy (Died 11/22/1963) and his brother (Died 6/6/1968), Martin Luther King (Died 4/4/1968), Malcolm X (Died 2/21/1965) and multiple race riots in the 1960s and the ongoing Vietnam War & Protests, the legislators in the US Congress totally overreacted culminating in the infamous 1968 Gun Control Act (Enacted 10/22/1968). The negative effects of this irrational overreaction are still felt and present today.

Addendum

Previously, this nation witnessed horrific killings (sometimes in broad daylight to the imminent danger of innocent bystanders) by organized and other criminals (e.g. Saint Valentine’s Day massacre of 2/14/1929) using rapid fire automatic, sometimes large caliber, weapons. However, law enforcement and prosecutors learnt quickly how to deal with these criminals effectively. So called Untouchables were killed or became permanent residents of maximum security penitentiaries like Alcatraz, Sing Sing, San Quentin, …

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