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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