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Re: Brooke’s comment on “Pobre Mexico!”
December 30, 2008 | Tagged Coming challenges for gun owners, futility of gun control, Mexican gun law failures | Leave a Comment
Brooke commented today on my “Pobre Mexico…” post of August 21st, which you can find under the Category of “Foreign Gun Laws.” The comment reads, “i don’t get wheat your trying to say. what are the facts that you know about?”
To Brooke,
Fact One: Capitalization is our friend.
Fact Two: Your school apparently cheated you on spelling and the use of contractions. You may want to consider legal action.
Fact Three: Your other two comments were spam. I deleted them.
Fact Four: Gun control laws don’t keep people safe.
In my post, I was urging gun owners to vote for candidates who support the individual rights of American Citizens to armed self-defense against crime and tyranny. In many cases, that didn’t happen in the 2008 Election. It remains to be seen how much damage will be done to the Second Amendment by the incoming administration and anti-gun rights Democrats in the state legislatures across the country.
Mexico offers what should be a strong cautionary lesson to the U.S. about the dangers of strict gun control. The unfortunate people of Mexico are mired in a deadly swamp of crime, violence and corruption. The rich can afford armed guards. The lower economic classes are merely living targets for the gangland drug lords that turn the streets into rivers of blood.
Yet, in our own country, we continue to hear calls for more and more gun “control.” If gun control worked, Pobre Mexico would be the perfect non-violent society. Gun control advocates promise us safety, but Mexican violence gives the lie to their assurances of bliss in a gun-free America.
Benjamin Franklin aptly said in his Historical Review of Pennsylvania that “They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” The coming years will be a stern test of the character of American sports shooters, those who own guns for self-defense, gun collectors, and advocates of individual freedom.
Storm clouds are gathering. May we prove equal to the task of maintaining our birthright of liberty in the face of “nanny state” socialistic paternalism! Remember Pobre Mexico!
Def Mech