Gun Control Advocates Have a Mental Illness

Frank J. Fleming at Pajamas Media has a good piece on gun control and how facts are completely irrelevant to those who continue to insist that taking guns away from good citizens makes our communities safer:

They say there are still people who believe the earth is flat. Despite all the evidence, despite the logic of the earth being a sphere, despite the pictures from space, despite the fact you can fly over the poles — there are some people who still cling to their silly, completely disproved notion of a flat earth. It’s like for some completely unfathomable reason they made the choice to be stupid and will not be moved from that position. It seemed like an urban legend to me — that there were some people out there perhaps pretending to believe in a flat earth, only as a gag — until I saw there were some people with just as stupid and illogical beliefs who I know aren’t part of a hoax: the few people left in the U.S. who still support increasing gun control.

Yes, they are a dwindling few and have been for some time, but they are still out there, and it’s completely inexplicable. And we’re not just talking weirdos on some obscure board on the internet; these are actual public officeholders working on laws. And they are completely unmovable by even the most basic logic and facts.

When states first started passing right-to-carry laws, the gun control people warned of a return to the Wild West where people would shoot each other at the drop of the hat and criminals would become more violent in retaliation. Now, decades later, there are shall-issue laws in at least forty states, where anyone who is not a felon can carry a handgun. Crime has gone down. None of the gun control proponents’ wild-eyed fantasies have come true. The rare outbreak of random violence — the shooting spree — happens almost exclusively in “gun-free” zones. So what are the arguments of pro-gun control people now when there is a proposal to relax gun laws? They use the exact same arguments they used twenty-five years ago as if nothing has changed!

Just look at the cavemen in Chicago panicking that thundersticks are now legal for honest citizens to own. They’re freaking out that now there will be unspeakable violence in their streets. Worse than they have already made things with their gun prohibition laws? Is that even possible? It’s as if they think they are the first city ever in which handguns have been made legal.

Again, decades of data of people being able to carry guns don’t even inform them in the slightest. Facts bounce off their thick heads like pebbles off a tank. If there was even a modicum of truth to their insane, illogical beliefs on gun ownership, wouldn’t they have numerous examples of violent outbreaks to point to in all the states that allow people to carry concealed handguns? But none exist, because all those fantasies were cooked up by morons who don’t understand human behavior or liberty. Most have realized this by now, but there are a few holdouts still clamping their hands over their ears trying to block out reality and reason. I’m not exactly sure when it happened, but being for gun control has gone from a legitimate political viewpoint to mental illness.

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Unfortunately, like most of liberalism, gun control advocates are driven by emotions and fears and not facts. They are unable to separate the tool from the act and thus guns become evil because they are sometimes used as the tools of violence. And yet you never hear them talk about knife control or ice pick control or chain saw control.  I guess death and violence that occur close up are acceptable, but death caused by a small lead pellet fired from a distance is too horrible to think about.

You can see how irrational the whole argument has become.

I believe that any good citizen who wants to possess a weapon and has passed the appropriate background and safety checks, whether kept at home or carried on their person, should be allowed...and even encouraged...to do so.  If there are fewer "gun free zones" there will be fewer opportunities for nuts to take out whole groups of unarmed defenseless people.  One good person with a gun could be the difference between a random act of violence and a massacre.