Posted by
John Caile on Monday, March 23, 2009 2:58:58 PM
The utter failure of gun control was on display in Oakland this past weekend, where a worthless piece of human trash who had an "extensive criminal history" shot and killed two police officers during a traffic stop, then killed two more during a standoff at an apartment complex.
Now, no one who is the least bit familiar with the facts of urban violence will be surprised that yet one more multiple offender, already out on parole for assault with a deadly weapon, was able to obtain firearms, even in California, a state buried in gun control regulations.
Of course he could. Every legitimate research effort has confirmed that thugs, drug dealers, and psychotic killers are not prevented from getting their hands on guns by ANY law, whether Federal, State, or local.
Even interviews with gang members (who are responsible for more than 80% of violent crime) bear this out - they refer to gun control efforts as "a joke" and interviewers frequently report that "they just laugh at gun laws" supposedly created to prevent them from obtaining guns.
Yet you can bet that the Brady Bunch and their kindred spirits in legislatures across the country will be expressing their usual outrage. Not against the killer, of course - but against his gun. They will be obsessed with what kind of gun he used, and their useful idiots in the media will chime in on cue, wondering (with furrowed brow) "where he got the gun."
And once again the gun control fanatics will attempt to convince Americans that if we pass just one more law, then this kind of thing "will never happen again." But we know that the laws they come up with will not be directed at those who perpetrate these monstrous crimes.
No, the gun control lobby will doubtless propose yet more foolish, ineffective, and ultimately destructive restrictions on legitimate gun owners, desperately hoping to somehow "control" what is nothing more than a tool made of metal and plastic. And no matter how many times gun control fails, for them the answer is always (surprise, surprise!) - more gun control!
But at some point, I have to believe that even the most jaded, uninvolved, clueless citizen must finally come to the realization that it is the CRIMINALS, PSYCHOTICS, and the GANGS that need to be "controlled" - not guns.
There is no magic solution to violence, but unless and until we get serious about putting the predators in prison, and keeping them there, incidents like the one in Oakland will continue to happen more than they otherwise would.