Guns (again)

Well, once again a crazy has surfaced, killed a bunch of folks, and got himself killed.

The President wants more laws to keep this from happening.

Has nobody noticed that the laws he wants and the laws that are being proposed in congress will not affect him or the CongressCritters, since they have, and can afford bodyguards, all of whom have, guess what, GUNS?  The laws only affect the Common man, who works for a living and might like to protect his family, home and hearth from the increasing number of people who are criminally inclined or crazy and would seek to do him harm?

Who among you actually believes that one more law will suddenly be obeyed by the criminally inclined when, so far, those folks have managed not to obey so many?  Is there a magic tipping point at which a criminal says to himself, "Golly, there are so many laws now I really have to start paying attention - they just passed another, and that makes one more than I can ignore."

The criminally insane have been a problem since someone's social conscience decided lo these many years ago that their civil rights were being violated by their commitment to a treatment facility.  Are Americans all so dumb as to believe that it is the purest of coincidences that the rise of mass shootings by folks later found to be criminally not responsible for reasons of mental illness is not related to the fact that they can no longer be institutionalized because of their civil rights?

What of the civil rights of the rest of us?  Do we not have the right to be secure in our own homes?  Do we not have the right (indeed the duty) to protect our homes and families from uninvited interlopers who would take the fruits of our labor and do our loved ones harm for the sole reason that the aforementioned loved ones were there and might have objected to being victims at the time?

Why is there no hue and cry to restrict automobiles as used by drunks, who kill far more people than we do with guns?  Instead of blaming the car, which is ludicrous, we blame the person in charge of the car - why is it not the same with guns?  Where is the logic, folks?!

mr. obama (lowercase purely intentional) would reduce us to serfs.  Frankly, we worked too hard to get away from serfdom, and I've no interest in being controlled.  Advised, yes, but not controlled - and you may rest well assured that that is what we are facing if we allow the rights which the constitution recognizes as having preexisted itself to be turned into privileges, which can always be removed.

For the moment, that's all I have to say.

Anyone care to argue?