Friday, June 08, 2007

Jouranl Gazette Letter on Banning Guns

There was a letter to the editor in today's JG that commended Dr Crawford for pushing the smoking ban and asked that they next take up banning handguns within city limits:
Now let’s take on the gun problem. Make it illegal to possess a handgun within the city limits. Law enforcement personnel initially could be allowed to carry guns, but eventually even that would be unnecessary.

This is literally the stupidest idea I have heard in a long, long time. Does anyone actually believe that the police would never need guns? What kind of utopian fantasy world is this person living in and why would the JG print this ridiculous letter?

Let me help all the gun control advocates out there realize something about laws in general. Laws are only good at controlling the behavior of law abiding citizens. People that commit homicides do not care what the gun laws are and never will. To disarm the citizenry in response to a small number of lawbreakers is not only unconstitutional but futile as well.

This is a topic I could go on and on about and maybe in the future I'll discuss my opinion in more detail. For now, suffice to say that I strenuously object with the letter...

4 comments:

MichaelK said...

Silly Jerome A. Welch. Doesn't he know that "Gun-Free Zone" is just another way of saying "Target-Rich Environment?"

I'd tell him to just ask the VT kids, but...

And nevermind that the UK and Japan are islands a fraction of the size of our chunk of continent.

Now if Fort Wayne were an island...

Maybe we should build a really big moat.

Jeff Pruitt said...

The only way to create a "gun free zone" is to have armed guards with metal detectors...

Parson said...

It amazes me the letters they will print. It's like they are purposly trying to make everyone in Fort Wayne sound like hayseeds. That way the big city folk stay away. We don't want their fancy baseball stadiums, hotels, condos, and technical jobs around these parts.

MichaelK said...

Ah, but then you you just have a perimeter to breach, Jeff!

Assuming the non-monitored sections of that perimeter are impenetrable... If one knows where the set checkpoints are, they can just avoid them.

For some reason this makes me think of the Berlin Wall.