U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- You might not have wanted a gun before, but now you do. You’ve seen the empty shelves in grocery stores. You read in the news that some police departments are taking longer to respond because of the outbreak of the Wuhan virus. Some police departments are conserving their resources and only responding to critical incidents in progress. The whole situation sounds unbelievable until you read that unarmed shoppers in California were robbed of their groceries. That is why many people decided they suddenly needed a gun for self-protection. Some gun stores reported a five-fold increase in sales. The Federal National Instant Background Check system reported processing three times the number of applications compared to a year ago.. if you could get a gun at all. Many citizens who wanted to buy a gun ran into our bizarre gun-control scheme and were disarmed. That wasn’t all they learned.
These gun buyers discovered that buying a gun legally wasn’t as easy as they thought. After you’ve passed your state and federal background checks, then the gun buyer must wait an additional ten days if you’re a resident of California. You’ll wait an additional 14 days if you live in Hawaii. In theory, there is only a six month wait to get a permit to purchase a gun in New Jersey, but New Jersey stopped processing applications. There, the good guys are disarmed by gun-control.
Lots of new gun buyers found out that the mainstream media lied to them. They discovered that you can’t buy a gun online. They found out that democrat politicians lied when they said it is easier to buy a gun than to buy a book. These new gun buyers crashed head-first into the 23 thousand firearms regulations we have in the US. That system isn’t easy for anyone.
In theory, these regulations prevent a known criminal from getting a gun. In practice, the bad guys get their guns the same way they get their drugs; the criminals get their guns illegally. These thousands of regulations disarmed the honest citizen who wants to obey the law.
How does disarming the honest citizens make us safer?
Millions of new gun owners and their families are now asking themselves that very question.
The practice and theory of gun-control are wildly different. Gun control laws are not designed to do what the politicians say they do. Gun-control laws are designed to put a politician in front of a camera while he reads a glowing press release. The politician slaps a wonderful sounding title on more regulations that don’t stop crime any better than the last ink-on-paper did. The news media nods with approval and refuses to ask for evidence that this charade really works. The media stays silent because their job depends on being invited to the next press release.
When this political-theater is presented to us in the news, most of us didn’t ask how gun-control was supposed to keep us safe. For millions of us, that changed last week. Today, more of us are asking that question as the recent wave of want-to-be gun owners were disarmed.
Gun-control has never stopped crime. Gun prohibition was designed to stop you from protecting yourself while pretending to make you safe. Now that you’re threatened, you are supposed to go pay a politician for an exemption, or pay so the police will protect you after you were denied the tools of self-defense.
That scheme is tried and true. It is as old as politicians and prohibition. Many citizens didn’t believe that gun-control worked that way until they saw it with their own eyes.
Now they know.. and so do you.
About Rob Morse
The original article is here. Rob Morse writes about gun rights at Ammoland, at Clash Daily, and on his SlowFacts blog. He hosts the Self Defense Gun Stories Podcast and co-hosts the Polite Society Podcast. Rob was an NRA pistol instructor and combat handgun competitor.
Truth: “There are none so blind as those who will not see.”
All due to the fact that people and children are uneducated or gullible in the Constitution,Bill of Rights,not to mention civics by the totalitarian Marxists of the Left.
Maryland has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the U.S. They don’t seem to have affected the rate of crimes committed with firearms in Baltimore. The population of Baltimore is now under 600,000. There have been, for the last few years, more than 300 homicides per year involving firearms. That’s a rate of at least one homicide per two thousand people; that means that statistically when you go to work in the morning and cross the street in a crowd, you are looking at victims. And the homicide rate does not fully reflect the rate of shootings– or… Read more »
they sowed the wind….
Like Gomer exclaimed…”Surprise, Surprise,Surprise!”
Mom just went to the grocery store. She’s a concealed carry permit holder but normally doesn’t “pack” as it’s always been safe where we live…but it’s getting worse. This morning I told her to put her pistol in her purse.
“May you live in interesting times”
Well this puts us all into bit of a quandary. Either we find ways to overcome this, or we allow the left to have its way with them. Can you imagine had the Patriots of 1776 said, “Well, there’s not much we can do boys. The English have made it illegal to own a gun!”?
Yes all the FUDD gun owners are flocking to the gun store and running into what the dummycRATS lied to them about and finding out that getting a book is NOT harder than buying a firearm legally. Unfortunately, when this crisis passes (and it will end hopefully sooner than later) those same asshats who are trying to by a gun now will no longer have the need for that gun and they won’t remember the BS they encountered trying to buy a gun and will still vote democrat. You know they’re dummycRATic voters cuz if they were real gun owners… Read more »
I find it to be poetic justice that all of the gun control supporters now have to suffer from the very laws they so fervently supported.
Well done, Rob. You grabbed the lazy and ignorant and fence-sitters by the scruff and shoved their faces deep into the pile of bull exhaust they have helped accumulate by their laziness and inaction. I love the FACT that thousands who have been mindlessly going long to get along with this steady disarmement nonsense are now brought face to face with the realty THEY have made. Nice something on this appeared in the Simi Valley News…… too bad we can’t get YOUR piece in the major papers around that corrupt socialist state… San Francisco Chronicle, Sacramento Bee, San Jose Mercury… Read more »