Politicians Introduce New Gun Control Law In Connecticut
By Tom Knighton
AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File
The problem with anti-gun legislators is that they often look at guns as a one-size-fits-all issue and recommend one-size-fits-all approaches to regulate guns. This is especially troubling as so few of them (read: none) know a damn thing about defending one’s self with a firearm.
Further, almost all of them are centered around urban centers with law enforcement a couple of minutes away. While you and I may well understand that those few minutes can amount to the rest of your life during a violent attack, it’s a short enough period of time that many feel perfectly secure.
In rural parts of the country, you may well be looking at an hour response time or longer. If the deputies on duty are on the other side of the county, it’ll take them a while to get to you. When you know response times are long, you don’t expect instantaneous police protection. You learn that you may well be required to protect your self.
Anti-Gun lawmakers routinely miss that fact. More to the point, they don’t care. That’s why they’ve pushed mandatory storage laws at the state level in numerous places. Now, they’re trying it at the federal …Read the Rest
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