This column by Daniel Greenfield is a must-read, especially for our lawmakers. The title is We Need Criminal and Crazy Control, Not Gun Control, and he's absolutely right.
Among other things, he writes: "It is not the purpose of government to control weapons, but to control criminals".
He says: "When we fail to lock up criminals, society becomes a prison. When we don’t institutionalize the insane, then society becomes the insane asylum. When we don’t stop foreign gangs and terrorists from entering our country, then we wake up to realize that we are living in El Salvador, Mexico, Pakistan or Iraq"
He says: "We can work to turn our societies into giant prisons in the hopes of impeding that 0.1% of the population which is inclined to violence over drugs, deranged fantasies or the Koran from shooting up malls, ramming cars into crowds, setting off pressure cooker bombs or flying planes into skyscrapers. Or we can get rid of that 0.1% and actually have a free and safe society"
And, "If we want to stop mass killings, we have to restore a moral society based on individual responsibility. The alternative is living in one giant progressive prison with the killers, the psychos and the terrorists. Either we control the criminals or we lose all control over our own lives."
How can you argue with that?
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