The problem is that millions of people do not own guns, and therefore think that the costs to *them* are trivial.
President Obama wants to restrict the millions in hopes of stopping a handful. It’s like throwing up police roadblocks all across America to conduct a search.
A police roadblock stops everybody so they can search for one or two people. Magnify it by millions and it’s the gun control model being pushed by President Obama.
From The Heritage Foundation, I’m Ernest Istook.
We all agree: deranged and dangerous people should not have firearms.
But how do we find them in a country of over 300-million people? We have about 17-million gun sales a year; over 30-million Americans have hunting licenses. Crazed killers like in Newtown and Aurora are deadly, but very few in number compared to the rest of us.
President Obama wants to restrict the millions in hopes of stopping a handful. It’s like throwing up police roadblocks all across America to conduct a search.
But just as the targets can simply bypass a roadblock, those who commit the worst crimes often steal guns or get them in backstreet transactions.
New burdens on the law-abiding millions are not the answer.
From The Heritage Foundation, I’m Ernest Istook.
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Canad, one of the hardest places to buy a gun!
A man who entered a Gatineau, Que. daycare centre, shooting a custodian to death before turning the gun on himself, was in the midst of a marriage breakup. http://tinyurl.com/c5dbxlp
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