| Blaming Others For Gun Crimes |
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| Written by Daniel White | |
| Monday, 05 December 2005 | |
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An article in today's Union Leader shows the typical response to the failure of gun control laws... blame someone else. Despite strict gun control laws in Boston, the city is experienced a 28% increase in shootings last year. Rather than admit that their gun control schemes do not work, they instead choose to blame their neighbors to the North. The Boston Globe reported that "New Hampshire and Vermont, where firearms laws are less strict and easy for criminals to manipulate." The UL article raises the obvious question, "If our firearms laws are the cause of high gun crime, then why is most of the crime in Boston?" The answer, of course, is because gun control laws only deter those who are inclined to follow the law in the first place. It is aready against the law to shoot someone (except in self-defense). If a criminal is willing to commit murder or felonious assault, are we to reasonable expect that person to change their mind because it is also illegal for them to possess a handgun? The UL article gives Boston a piece of advice on how to truly reduce violent crime in the city: Forget the guns; catch and lock up the criminals. |