The contrary liberal position, that absolute gun confiscation would reduce violent crime, is reasonable on its surface… but it disintegrates completely when confronted with the simple fact that disarming criminals is virtually impossible. Even if it could be done, the will to violence gives criminals a pronounced advantage over lawful citizens, when only primitive weapons are involved.

OK Libs, how would we have subdued Hasan had he chose to use a mace instead and there were no guns?

God, don’t give them any more ideas, Doc. They’re working on it already as it is. Incrementally (trans fat bans, soda taxes, etc), of course, just as always.

the hellish Wal-Mart, the corporate Mordor of the frenzied Left.

Beachgirl beat me to it! Another great metaphor and another home run, Doctor Zero. Do you do speaking engagements?

Abelard on November 13, 2009 at 5:06 PM

Excellent.

The reason there is no significant starvation in America is because the production and delivery of food is highly efficient and innovative.

According to USDA in 2007 10.6% of adults are food-insecure and 16.9% of children are as well.

How innovative. If only those hungry people had guns….

The Calibur on November 13, 2009 at 3:38 PM

It says something amazing about this country that we can’t even compute a real rate for honest-to-God hunger. Instead, we come up with “food insecurity.”

According to the USDA, this means:

Food insecurity is limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways.

In other words, if you EVER ask “huh, wonder what I’m having for lunch,” you are food insecure.

Wah.

They think the government should buy them 3 square + liquor + cigarettes + cable.

hawksruleva

and condoms and abortions.

According to USDA in 2007 10.6% of adults are food-insecure and 16.9% of children are as well.

How innovative. If only those hungry people had guns….

The Calibur on November 13, 2009 at 3:38 PM

Gosh, we should just stop farming, then. If America isn’t the world’s breadbasket, who is? It’s not the farmer’s fault that there are hungry folks. Why don’t those people move out west and start up their own farm? Oh, that’s right, they’re too lazy. They think the government should buy them 3 square + liquor + cigarettes + cable.

You see, the problem the NYPD had was that the folks who feted the Black Panthers in Radical Chic were the same guys who would fund hot and cold running lawyers for every gangbanger out there. You pick one up, he went through that revolving door back out on the street. Until Rudy played the Gun Control card. You see, either the rich lefties had to defend the gangbangers’totally un-chic Second Amerndment rights, or get out of the way and let Rudy throw their criminal butts in jail.

Garbage. Nothing stopping all law abiding-citizens from getting a gun legally in America.

Norman Blizter on November 13, 2009 at 4:35 PM

YET.

And it ain’t for lack of trying.

Imagine how the scene at Fort Hood goes if he’s in a room full of armed soldiers.

The city of Kennesaw, Georgia, took the novel step of passing an ordinance requiring heads of household to keep at least one firearm in their homes, as reported in this article by Chuck Baldwin of Campaign for Liberty. The law went into effect in 1982, and produced 74% and 45% reductions in violent crime over the next two years, respectively.

Rudy Giuliani would disagree with you Dr Zero:
http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Rudy_Giuliani_Gun_Control.htm

Q: Some gunowners say they never felt safe in your city because of its gun control laws. What do you have to say to them?

A: I would say to them the FBI would disagree with that. New York City was, during the years that I was mayor, the safest large city in the United States. For example, in Boston, there was a 59% greater chance you’d be the victim of a crime than in New York City. In many other cities, there was 100% to 300% greater chance that you’d be a victim of a crime than in New York City. One of the things I accomplished as mayor of New York City was the impossible. I took a city that was the crime capital of America, and I made it not only the safest large city in America, I made it safer than 189 small cities. So, I mean, people have their right to their own feelings. The reality is, you were safer in New York than just about any other city in the United States after I was mayor for about three or four years.
Source: 2007 GOP debate at UNH, sponsored by Fox News Sep 5, 2007

Of course, universal gun ownership and training wouldn’t bring a whole lot of power to the socialists. In fact, it’s just about their worst nightmare. Nothing makes them more nervous than the thought of a few million liberty-loving souls with pistols in one hand, and tea bags in the other.

Garbage. Nothing stopping all law abiding-citizens from getting a gun legally in America.

The reason there is no significant starvation in America is because the production and delivery of food is highly efficient and innovative.

According to USDA in 2007 10.6% of adults are food-insecure and 16.9% of children are as well.

How innovative. If only those hungry people had guns….

Article 1, Section 8 – Powers of Congress:

The Congress shall have Power…

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia…

Militia Act of 1903:
The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard

Alright you slackers in Congress, where is my gun?

You have a new fan. Great stuff!!

Great column!

Dr. Zero, Why are you not featured on here every single day? You make so much sense with everything you you write, you should be required reading for everyone in America.

including the hellish Wal-Mart, the corporate Mordor of the frenzied Left

Love it!

Excellent post, as always.

http://pagenine.typepad.com/page_nine/

Anecdotal stories abound, even have one of my own, confirming that being armed saves lives.

Five hundred billion/year spent by Americans on food; let’s see, for NancyCare’s price, everyone in America could have their food tab cleared for over two years. Interesting thought. Dumb, but interesting. During WWII most Americans had a Victory Garden. Many Americans continue this pastime/necessity/preference today. And this isn’t counted in many statistics. Certainly it would be difficult to plant a row of corn in Manhattan, but shy of the skyscraper environment, even a couple of tomato plants are pretty simple. That many people also like to hunt and fish as both pleasure and dietary preference makes the case that there is a chasm of thinking between urban dwellers and everyone else. So it only makes sense that there would also be a similar chasm regarding firearms. People unfamiliar with each others’ thought patterns of self sufficiency regarding food are probably inclined to have a similar disparity of thought regarding self preservation via protection.

to “promote the general welfare.”

This is oft misunderstood. Rather than “promote the general welfare” being thought of as a requirement for active involvement in every aspect of citizen’s lives, it should be thought of antithetically, i.e., “do nothing to interfere with the general welfare” of America’s citizens. Make no laws, regulations, restrictive rules, to interfere with the freedom of people to live, grow, nurture themselves, their families, their businesses, and charitable nature. Promote = encourage, not discourage; to raise up, not hold down. So many of the efforts of government seem to have a stifling effect rather than one of promoting self sufficiency and therefore freedom.

Great, GREAT article!!!!!! Well done.

Unlike socialized medicine, gun ownership is actually authorized – in fact, guaranteed – by the Constitution.

There you go again. Excellent +1.