Since When? A Skeptical Look at Gun Control

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Who will guard the guards?

-- Juvenal

In the twentieth century, more people were killed by their own governments than by war.

February 2013 In the seventies I would have been all for English or Canadian style gun control for the US because the government didn't seem to have totalitarian tendencies. This would have saved lives. There was half a chance that the laws would have been applied sanely, and that criminals might have had less access to guns.

I still see the logic behind gun control, but can we get some less evil people to enact it? The US government is abusing its powers, and seems to be getting worse. There is a ten year low in prosecutions of violations of existing gun laws by the Federal Government. (Source: Democracy Now) Hmmm. We sold guns to Mexican cartels to shoot our our own border patrol agents. Some of the mass shootings might be staged false flag incidents. Law enforcement on all levels has basically given up trying to really do anything about a lot of crimes, so how would that impact gun law enforcements?

Possibly one of the things stopping a jack-booted fascist federal takeover is the sobering fact that Americans are twitchy and heavily armed. One of the things fueling rational people to own guns is crime and the lack of effective law enforcement. I'd say do something real about crime, the erosion of civil rights, the gap between rich and poor, the plutocracy, the kleptocracy, runaway prices, and mismanagement of the environment. These fuel crime, unrest, and doomsday visions. After that you might stand more of a chance of getting rational people's guns away.

Theoretically, right now you could ban assault weapons, do mental health/background checks on prospective gun owners, and institutionalize dangerous mentally ill people. All of those powers can be abused, however. If a preschool child is suspended from school under a "zero tolerance policy" because he formed his hand into a gun, what would compromise and an automatic weapon? A nail gun? Whatever the police say it is and good luck getting any one to listen to you? Cause stuff like this is happening now. What would constitute a dangerous mentally ill person? Would the batman shooter have gone free while an inconvenient dissident might have been locked up without a trial?

It can cost around a thousand dollars a day to mentally hospitalize someone. Who will pay for that? Whose agenda will be worth a thousand dollars a day per patient forever? Right now protecting innocent kids lives isn't worth that kind of money. Why would it be worth it later? If someone got a call from the President's Office about a rowdy whistleblower with too much information who was "dangerous" and "threatening to shoot people," a favor to a President is worth the money, and besides, the person is "dangerous."

A CIA whistleblower is just starting a thirty month prison sentence, prosecuted by the Obama administration. He says he is proud to do it. Former CIA agent John Kiriakou is being jailed for speaking out about torture by the US government. He said, "My oath is to the constitution . . . to me, torture is unconstitutional." The Obama Administration has prosecuted more whistleblowers than President Bush. (Source: Democracy Now)

http://www.democracy...bracing_torture

The theories of gun control have to be held up against the reality of the those who would enforce them. Do you want the people who are responsible for Airport Security and the No Fly List to have more power?

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