Tuesday, March 26, 2013
The Latest from Colion Noir
As usual, it takes only seconds for Colion to begin the spinning. He mentions "hammer violence" in the same breath as "gun violence."
The rest of the video is a slick pitch for taking the focus off guns and puting it on violence. But why? That's what I want to know. Most murders are committed with guns. Innumerable other violent crimes are commintted with guns. Hammer violence is not a problem, gun violence is.
Why not focus on guns?
The reason is obvious. It's a self-serving attempt to discredit the gun-control movement. The people of the gun want as much freedom as they can get regardless of the overall harm it does to society.
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Violence is down over the last two decades. We have a diminishing violence problem, focused mostly on the big cities. Noir is correct in his statement that this is what we should be working on. Dealing with the real problem here is hard, so control freaks gravitate to the lazy solution.
ReplyDeleteYes hammers are not used as the murder weapon as often as guns, but do you think hammer control would work to reduce hammer violence? Would licensing , registration, safe storage laws, private transfer bans, make it harder for murderers to get a hold of hammers thus reducing the amount of people who are murdered by that weapon?
ReplyDeleteYou forgot hammer confiscations. The answer to the absurd comparison is yes.
DeleteSo after gun control you'll move on to hammer control, with knife control in between?
DeleteWe'd also have to close the "crescent hammer" loophole as those who can't get a hammer through the legal channels would start buying crescent wrenches without background checks, getting through the loophole to buy something that is clearly really a heavy, civilian legal hammer designed to only look like a wrench
DeleteMy opinion is that it is working. According to the latest CBS poll, support for gun control is dropping off. Even among Democrats support for gun control has dropped a lot.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57576248/poll-support-for-stricter-gun-control-wanes/
Again, any kind of common sense approach thrown out there goes right over the head of Mikeb and the gun control zombies.
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My opinion is that he is correct. We have a violence problem and criminals use guns because it's the easiest way to create the most amount of violence. We are a violent society, that's just how it is. People can blame it on whatever they want, guns, TV, video games. But in the end, it doesn't matter, people will still be violent. England banned most all guns, but there were 35ish gun murders last year. They're banned, how did those murders take place? Because criminals don't care about the laws.
ReplyDeleteThink of such a broad ban and legislation here in America. While some would turn in their guns, others won't. Then it's going to be the gun control crowd asking men with guns to go and take the guns from other people with guns. You certainly cannot show up at someone's house with a big stick and ask him to hand over his firearms. So you need cops, with guns. Cops are not passive people, they are usually very aggressive and violent people because that is what the job calls for. If they weren't violent and aggressive people, there would be no reason for organizations like Cop Block to exist.
Now take those same police officers and disarm them after their shift ends. They're unprotected like everyone else. Cop or not, a gun is an equalizer. At 6 feet tall and 350 pounds I can hold my own against, well, most anyone. When you can pick up a 250 pound person and shake them around like a rag doll, most people just don't mess with you. But if some 80 year old grandmother decides she's going to rob me and jams a .38 in my ribs, guess what? Granny is getting my wallet.
"My opinion is that he is correct. We have a violence problem and criminals use guns because it's the easiest way to create the most amount of violence."
DeleteIsn't that an argument for the gun control side?
And it is the easiest way to stop violence. The gun control side tends to ignore that.
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