The media bias regarding the current merciless assault on the second amendment is staggering. They refuse to educate people on the simplest fact -- that in areas where there is the most gun control being practiced gun violence invariably escalates. How hard is that to understand? How difficult is it to wrap one's mind around the fact that criminalizing anything does not keep criminals from obtaining it. During prohibition, criminals made small fortunes supplying people with liquor, while the average Joe did without. When we're talking about guns, the need to recognize that criminals don't obey laws (by definition) is exponentially more important to recognize. When guns are more difficult to obtain, predators gain a major advantage, and self defense becomes more difficult to achieve. It boils down to a matter of life and death.
There have also been so many examples, especially in recent years, in which mass killings have been averted by a responsibly armed citizen who either incapacitated or killed the potential killer, and yet one has to read about these incidents in conservative publications, or on conservative websites, because the mainstream media consistently ignore them.
Those two facets of the argument (the fact that increased anti-gun laws simply do not decrease gun violence, and the fact that armed, responsible citizens do), combined with the Founders' genuine intent in creating the Second Amendment (nowhere in the Constitution does the word hunting appear, either explicitly or by inference) are really all one has to know in order to make an informed decision regarding where one stands on the issue. Unfortunately, the huge majority of the citizenry hasn't a clue about any of the three facets of the argument -- thanks to the administration's theatrics, and the media's compliance in keeping them under wraps. |
