Gun Owners Are Making it Too Easy or Criminals to Get Firearms

By Jenn Jacques

Yeah, I said it: gun owners are making it too easy for criminals to get their hands on firearms. Fighting words, I know – but to me, the news stories of guns being stolen from vehicles, legislators calling for additional restrictions on the Second Amendment and law enforcement scolding gun owners are completely unnecessary.

Why? Because we know better.

In St. Louis, MO, police have seen a double-digit percentage increase in gun thefts this year, reporting more than 1800 gun thefts with a month left on the calendar. Over the Thanksgiving weekend alone, seven guns were stolen out of vehicles in the city, four of them from one vehicle, prompting authorities to address not the criminals, but gun owners.

“It’s not unusual for them (criminals) to break into 4 or 5 or 6 cars in a row and not take anything out of the first five but in the 6th car they find a gun, it’s like winning the lottery for them,” said Sam Dotson, St. Louis Police Chief, in a statement Tuesday.

“Be smart about it,” Dotson scolded gun owners. “You got 5 firearms that can be used to hurt somebody in your car. You leave them in a way that a …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms