You Cannot Legislate Gun Violence Away Without Ending The 2nd Amendment

That is a fact.

We are going to hear a massive amount of political grandstanding and virtue signaling this week from political opportunists and “concerned” gun owners who are seeking nothing other than to exploit these tragedies to further a political objective or to self promote their virtuous beliefs.

Remember that.

We will read and hear calls of banning “assault rifles” or “long rifles.” Okay. What do you think will be the reaction after the next mass killing like the one in Killeen, where the attacker used a pistol and a revolver to shoot 36 people? Or Virginia Tech, where the attacker shot 56 people with two handguns? The reaction will be more demands for more legislation to end gun violence, of course. This outcome is not difficult to forecast.

Moreover, what do you do when an attacker(s) kills 8 people with a pair of shotguns? What do you do when an attacker stabs 5 people as has happened in Britain?

A shooter may have no documented history of mental illness or a criminal record. What will be the reaction when an evil person with no record of violent crime or mental illness shoots 50 people to death?

We live in a nation of 350M people. Many of those people are mentally ill, socially isolated, emotionally stunted, hateful, and evil. I don’t have the answers to solving the existence of gun violence in our society. I think they may be found somewhere in mental and social outreach, awareness, and intervention. How those possible solutions are found and implemented, I’m unsure.

The possibility of violence is a consequence of living in a free society, where we enjoy individual freedoms. You cannot legislate away gun violence without doing away with the 2nd Amendment and giving up individual freedom. When you hear someone call for Congress to “end gun violence now,” make no mistake, they are calling for an end to the 2nd Amendment because no legislation that Congress would enact from these tragedies will end gun violence. Those that call for such action see it only as a first step.

Remember that.