2 boys shot sitting on Roxbury porch
A 4-year-old boy and his teenage cousin were shot as they sat on the porch of their Roxbury home last night, the latest round of gunfire to strike a young, innocent bystander, and the beginning of a spate of violence that stretched across the city.
At least four other people were shot and three were stabbed in what police believe were unrelated incidents.
Boy, it's a good thing that the Boston Police Department won't issue licenses to carry firearms. Imagine how bad things would be if law-abiding folks could carry guns for protection?
Here's my favorite part:
Last night, police had charged a 17-year-old in connection with the shootings. The suspect, who was not identified, is expected to be arraigned today in Boston Municipal Court.
Read that again. 17 years old. Too young for a gun permit. Too young to even own a handgun anywhere in the US.
THAT. GUN. WAS. NOT. LEGALLY. OBTAINED.
End of story.
All the gun control in the fucking world isn't going to keep guns out of the hands of the criminals. Not with millions of guns currently in circulation. Introducing "One Gun A Month" laws or "ballistic fingerprinting" bullshit won't do a single fucking thing to stop a 17 year old gangbanger from getting his hands on a gun and using it illegally.
Gun control, as it is practiced, is an abysmal failure. Plain and simple. It targets almost exclusively the most law-abiding of people; it rarely addresses the misuse of the firearm, focusing on the attachments to the weapon or the capacity of the magazine. You know, rather than actually punishing the miscreants who think it's acceptable practice to shoot a four year old child.
The only way gun control would stand a chance at even vaguely denting crimes committed with firearms would be a three step approach:
1. Declare the Second Amendment null and void, and make the private ownership of firearms 100% illegal.
2. Perform house-to-house searches of every single house, condo, and apartment in America looking for firearms.
3. Institute an immediate, on-the-spot death sentence for possession of as little as a single cartridge.
That's the only plan that could even conceivably make a difference in gun crime.
And, of course, it would lead to open revolt after about 15 seconds of implementation, but that's fodder for another discussion...
Unless and until we are ready to take the "Final Solution" (and yes, that is intentional) to the above method of gun control, it behooves us to focus on punishing the misuse of firearms (and all weapons) rather than the simple ownership of said firearms. Actually put these monsters in jail and fucking keep them there. Take them out of the population. Let it be known that this level of violence will be punished swiftly and severely.
But it's much easier to suggest a "One Gun A Month" law, isn't it? The 10% of the population that owns guns isn't going to vote for your pathetic ass anyways, right? And it looks like you're doing something, doesn't it? Even if it's completely ineffective, targets the wrong people, and doesn't address the real issues in the least.
Gah. It's not good to get this worked up this early in the week.
Fuck this. I'm goin' to the range.
That is all.
7 comments:
30 million gun owners in the US? I thought there was more than that...
I was opting low to be on the safe side...
(IOW, PFA)...
I'm with ya Jay. the argument you use is one I like to throw into the gun-phobes faces. "Sure, I'll say. I'll concede the point that if we magically disappeared all the guns and outlawed all gun possession we would probably reduce the murder rate. But how do you propose to do that?"
In the meantime, please give me the right to defend myself from thugs who won't be deterred by laws...Grrr.
Jay,
Heard on the radio this evening that the 17-yr old "shooter" being held for questioning was released due to lack of evidence. I guess the one spot of good news in this story is the gunshot wounds sustained by both victims are non life threatening.
Your "final solution" would never work.
Everyday, I go to work in a "gun free enviroment". As a matter of fact they're are no knives, mace, nor even a bic lighter. Do I feel "safe".
Try walking around a state prison and see how you feel.
Bill,
Exactly. What I'm proposing is a solution so draconian that it could never even be introduced, let alone implemented.
And yet it's the only proposal that stands a snowball's chance in hell of actually reducing the amount of crime committed with firearms.
If getting caught with even a single bullet meant you were executed on the spot, I'd wager that even the most flagrant criminals would think twice about using a gun.
Of course, they'd just resort to knives, bats, and sheer strength, and the CRIME would stay the same. Only the tool used would change.
brad,
There's a shock (not). Then again, if even there was enough evidence they most likely would have let him go, anyways. It's not like he committed the unpardonable sin of buying more than one firearm magazine in a month...
drmac,
My "solution" would work, but only towards reducing GUN crime. Notice the careful parsing.
It does beg the question, though... Why do they push so heavily for gun control when it obviously has no effect on criminals?
The answer, IMHO, is that they don't care one whit about crime. They do care about the hoi polloi having the means with which to defend against tyranny...
Another issue with a magical gun free world even if it could be created is that there are still criminals & miscreants who would find other ways to work their evil deeds. Before guns there were swords, arrows, tomahawks, clubs, & knives which were very popular. Changing the tools evil people use to work evil deeds really does nothing to enhance public safety, but disarming the law abiding would most assuredly make society less safe.
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