All gun tragedies are horrible, however the recent drive by Sandy Hook relatives to expand background checks is misguided to say the least. The shooter in Sandy Hook did not buy a gun without a background check, he borrowed his mothers who was completely within her rights to purchase guns. Tragedies, such as the Boston marathon bombing, are horrible when they happen but unless a police state is set up to watch everyone all the time they will happen. Are we going to ban all fireworks, fertilizers, sugar, pressure cookers, heavy objects, and cars from citizens? Will licenses need to be issued for each of these items?
Instead what is going on is a push towards a global UN managed registry of gun owners and a very crucial step towards the eradication of the 2nd Amendment. Not allowing citizens to own guns or any weapon for that matter means each family will be helpless to defend themselves against criminals and criminals will know that – a pack of five men would be pretty confident they could ransack a place knowing that lawful families will not have guns in their house – be it an 8 gauge shotgun or AR-15. What else will be confiscated after guns, well probably gold and silver.
I’d like to think that our world is peaceful and everyone gets along – however this is false. Most people will fight each other when they feel their survival is at stake, many will fight for resources to come out on top, others will fight for the front of the line if no checks are put in place, and yet others will fight just because they feel like it. My point is that most folks know what the law is and what the consequences are for breaking the law, given the someone lax system we have in place some will risk breaking the law knowing the punishment combined with the risk is less than the reward and will then break the law. If lawful folks have the capacity to maintain the law in their own jurisdiction (their home) then folks will think twice about testing the punitive system of any given home.
The most important reason that Americans should own guns is that we have fought too long and hard against tyranny to let our freedom of self defense to be undermined by a tragedy.




