Finishing Up

Just about there....only a few more to go....

21.  Limiting the amount of ammunition you can purchase within a given time
    period.

This is as absurd as the last one...limiting how many weapons one can buy in a given period of time.  And just as with the last one, anyone wishing to engage in mass murder can simply wait until he can supply himself with whatever amount of ammo he believes will be required for the task.  The saddest aspect of this proposal is without a parallel law requiring one must use up the ammo from one's last purchase, building up a stock of ammo is simply a longer process than it would be without the idiotic law that won't change a thing.  And that's ignoring the fact that ammo can likely be had through illegal sources as can be weapons.  No one selling weapons is worth a damn without also selling ammo.  But again, even with legal purchasing, one simply waits the required time and buys more. 

22.  Requiring that all gun owners store their guns in a safe storage unit.

Even without "gun violence" considered, this law is idiotic.  When dealing with a break-in, why force a potential victim to spend unnecessary time to arm up?  How dare anyone demand how others protect themselves as if everyone exists in identical situations. 

But how will this reduce "gun violence"?  It won't.  Who would bother with this restriction if they were among the criminal element?  Who would be prevented from perpetuating violence simply because they have to get their gun from the "safe storage unit"? 

Oh wait!  This is about the kids, isn't it?  But what responsible gun owner leaves his weapons lying about where idiot kids can access them?  What irresponsible gun owner would bother with a safe? 

It's absurd.  And it's just another infringement that is completely anathema to the spirit of the 2nd Amendment, which is for the purpose of self-protection.  This idiocy interferes with a person's ability to defend himself by making access to the person's weapon more difficult.  Remember:  any proposal that infringes on the right is unworthy of consideration.  One must have the unrestricted freedom to exercise a right or it is not a right at all. 

23.  Banning firearms from all workplace settings nationally.

So, apparently to idiots, the right to protect one's place of business is for asshats to ignore.  "Workplace settings" are mostly private properties.  Only the owner of a property has the authority to dictate what is or isn't appropriate on the owner's property.  And what is the owner supposed to do to prevent others from carrying a weapon into his place of business?  Set up metal detectors at every point of entry?  But hey, we can always use more target rich environments, can't we? 

24.  Requiring that gun buyers complete safety training and a test for their specific firearm.

How about requiring complete civics and current events training before one can exercise one's right to vote?  While training with one's weapon is a good idea...without a doubt...forcing someone to take the time and money (not including the ammo necessary, which ain't free) is an infringement for which there is no data that suggests it would make anyone safer.  And who would run the testing and who would determine what it takes to pass?  How do we get the criminals and insane to submit to such a thing?

This idiocy assumes the typical, law-abiding gun owner isn't responsible enough to train on his own as he has the opportunity and financial wherewithal to do so.  But lacking either or both, to deny one the ability to arm up as is his right simply because of an inability take or pass an arbitrary test is unconstitutional. 

25.  Implementing a national “buy-back” program for all banned firearms and magazines, where the government pays people to turn in illegal guns.

Like socialism, this has never worked anywhere it has been tried.  It's impact on "gun violence" is indistinguishable and there is no data that gives anything close to a clear picture as to whether it makes a difference or not.  Indeed, it's really easy to see that it doesn't.  Among the many problems with this idiotic notion:

a)  Most weapons turned in are old, dysfunctional and not of the type commonly used in crimes.

b)  Weapons turned in account for an incredibly tiny percentage of weapons believed to exist in a given area where the program is focused.

c)  These programs often promise a "no questions asked" offer, which allows for criminals to turn in weapons used in crimes, thereby severely lessening the ability to solve them.  In other words, it's like destroying evidence.

d)  Any money offered can be used by criminals to buy weapons.  Kinda self-defeating.

26.  Banning firearms from schools and college campuses nationally.

This is a great example of "Hey!  I'm a complete moron!", and anyone who thinks this is a good idea after the many deaths at these very types of locations needs to be institutionalized.  Now, I know that the idiot who made up this list thinks that schools will be safe if ALL these nonsensical and impotent ideas are enacted.  That's delusional thinking.  Adding another stupid idea doesn't make other stupid ideas more effective.  It's just compounds the stupidity and innocent, law-abiding people would then be at greater risk from all those who ignore laws in the first place.  Better than banning weapons would be instituting ideas that actually make students and staff safer, and those which were laid out in this post and those that preceded it.

27. Requiring that all gun owners store their guns with childproof locks.

"Well, I got the gun out of the safe, and while I was fumbling with the key to remove the trigger lock, the asshole shot my wife and kids."  Yeah.  Really great idea only a moron could love.

So, as can easily be seen, there is nothing to which anyone can point and insist lives would be saved, violence would be reduced or any good could come from any of the points listed (except where indicated...and those were "iffy").  As we've seen in countries where gun laws are tighter than here, such as the UK, knives have become the weapon of choice and idiots in Great Britain have taken to banning and restricting those as well.  Yet, the real problems are never addressed...problems with character.  The weapon of choice matters little to the low character individual intent on doing harm and murdering as many as possible.  There's no way to eliminate every possible means which such a person might utilize.  "Where there's a will, there's a way" works for assholes, too.  Disarming the public, infringing on the right and ability to protect ones' self makes no one safer.  Worse, it puts the law-abiding not only at the mercy of the criminal and insane, but of a government gone bad, which is why we have the restriction on government which is the 2nd Amendment.  Like all of the Constitution, this Amendment doesn't convey a right upon us.  It denies the government the ability to take it away...unless too many leftists take office.