The Utility Of A Good Guy With A Gun

By Tom Knighton

Gun rights activists and the NRA itself have routinely pointed out that the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. In the wake of Las Vegas, many are questioning that. After all, there were several armed citizens at the concert and they could do nothing. Nothing at all.

Now, the gun grabbers are using that fact to try and dispell the idea that a good guy with a gun stops bad people from doing bad things.

Within the Beltway, everyone knows this game is mostly about money. The NRA, like the financial services industry or Big Pharma, is an easy source of campaign cash, and all politicians have to do to get it is master the art of selling purely commercial lobbying as heartfelt ideological advocacy.

This is relatively easy when we’re talking about hunting rifles, gets dicier when the issue turns to concealed weapons, and then becomes an exercise in pure political whoring and pseudo-intellectualism once it comes to making up justifications for selling military-grade weapons to Internet shoppers.

Just a pause here to point out to the ignorant moron writer of this piece that any purchase over the internet …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms