Gun Control Drives Me Crazy

By Donna Carol Voss

Gun control drives me crazy. I’m willing to consider any logical argument, but gun control is so untethered from reality that it makes me hyperventilate just thinking about it.

It is reality that people are killed by guns every day. The reporter and photograhper who were gunned down on live TV are only the latest victims in a long and increasingly frequent pattern of innocents murdered by gun-wielding madmen.

How is that a problem of gun control?

Many more people are killed by car accidents every day, and no one is suggesting that we outlaw cars. We could narrow the field to only those killed by drunk drivers and outlaw alcohol, but we’ve already tried that.

Prohibition didn’t eliminate alcohol in this country, it simply created an underground economy for it. People wanted alcohol, and people got alcohol, whether they knew the secret password at a speakeasy or distilled it themselves in the woods.

(Fun fact: Prohibition gave rise to NASCAR. Moonshine runners souped up their vehicles to outrun police, and the sport of faster, better cars was born.)

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Source:: The Blaze