As seems to always be the case when politicians step
in with “common sense” this (gun control) or “common sense” that (immigration
reform) things start to slip off the rails. Azzbag pols once decided to sock it
to the rich by taxing the crapola out of high end luxury yachts. That’ll show the rich bastards! The unintended
consequence of the pols’ BS move was that rich people simply stopped buying yachts. That led to a whole industry of middle class craftsmen,
suppliers and their employees hitting the skids while the rich, as always, got
richer by keeping their money in their pocket.
You can be sure that when dumbazz BS pols aim a tax at
the rich they are going to hit the middle class square in the wallet. Lex’s philosophy on the rich is that, for the
most part, they are rich because they work harder, have more talent, are better
educated, just plain smarter or have a better business savvy than most of us. They,
for the most part, should not be demonized.
They should be admired and studied.
The unintended consequences of government social
welfare programs are obvious and well documented. Over the years it has about a 75% failure rate
for moving people out of poverty. Yet
the programs grow, receive more and more money as poverty continues at the
exact same rate in the exact same places.
Government recently got its oily hands on the healthcare
system and what happened? One disaster
after another. One patchwork rob Peter
to Paul fix after another.
Now, after the latest school shooting and as predictably
as the sun rises in the east, the pols want to “do something.” The “something”
will be a fix that does absolutely nothing to address the underlying
problem. The fix will focus on the instruments
of violence rather than the real causes. It will be like banning hammers
because a carpenter installed your kitchen cabinets at a horrific angle.
Just the talk of banning “assault weapons,” whatever that
is, has had the unintended consequence of increasing AR-15 sales in Cape Coral,
FL by 30% after the FL shootings.
The AR-15 has been the most popular rifle sold
America for the last 10 years. There are
many reasons, among them: accuracy, easy of firing, the platform is easily
modified to accommodate about any shooter’s desires, stopping power etc. As a
result there are currently about 8 million of the weapons in the hands of
American citizens.
8 million is as likely as not to be 9-10 million as
gun grabbers inspire many Americans to make their purchase before the harebrained
Pols decide to ban the platform.
So even if a ban is affected today, there will still
be well over 8 million of the rifles out there.
What is the likelihood that one or two of the 8 million will fall into
the hands of another crazy and that the FBI and local police departments will
sit on their incompetent azzes rather than do their jobs? Pretty good I suspect.
So the reality is that there are 8 million “assault rifles”
out there. How do you stop one from coming
into the local school? Collect up the
rifles? That, Mr. and Mrs. America,
could have the unintended consequence of leading to a no sh*t shooting Civil
War. People are not going to sit by and
let the government come into their homes to confiscate their ability
to defend themselves and their families.
So, ask yourself, is it easier to collect up 8
million rifles or harden the target? Is it
easier to collect up 8 million rifles or put an armed guard in schools? Lefties will say, “you cannot put weapons
inside the school, unless they are in the hands of a deranged lunatic.” They are not serious about protecting the
children inside the school.
It really is no more complicated than that. If Lefties
will not allow people capable of protecting the school inside the school, it is
obvious that they really don't give a crapola about who gets shot up
inside*. Their agenda is to grab guns and
restrict gun ownership NOT school safety.
NOTE: A cynic might claim that they even want a certain amount of gun tragedy to further their cause of grabbing guns. I'm about there.
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