Mass shootings in California and the futility of gun control

[Ex New Yorker]

Originally Posted by ditchoc

I've been saying for a long time "that genie is out of the bottle". There are more guns in the US than people.

The issue shouldn't be about guns at all. The issue is why the criminally insane and career criminals are allowed to freely roam about in a civilized society? If someone can come up with a solution to solving that then maybe so many people wouldn't be buying guns to protect themselves from those types of individuals in the first place? We could start by looking at our broken criminal justice system and turnstile justice. But those on the Left and the Social Justice Warriors (SJW) will have none of that. Criminals and mass murderers are a means to an end. The more killings there are, the more demands for the abolishment of the 2nd Amendment which is their ultimate goal. The 2nd Amendment is an obstacle in their goal of having absolute power and control over the American people.

The debate over gun control can be summed up thusly: Those of us who don't like guns in the hands of our non-costumed brethren, will vote to ensure men with guns, under the guise of the "law," will come and take the property that is rightfully yours, killing you should you resist our will sufficiently.

This is what we call "violence by-proxy" and makes the voter for violence no less culpable in the extortion and death that will ensue.

As Stefan Molyneux correctly observed; if a person claims they are non-violent and are for “gun control” they are not truly anti-gun nor are they non-violent people - because the reality is that guns and violence will be needed to disarm innocent law abiding people.

This is because those people who claim they are anti-gun and anti-violence, who claim to support “gun control,” will need the credible threat of police violence and the police’s guns to take away other people’s guns should they resist the attempt to further centralize their monopoly on violence.

So those who claim to be anti-gun and anti-violence are really very pro-gun and very pro-violence. They ultimately believe that only government officials (which are of course portrayed as reliable, honest, moral, and virtuous) should be allowed to have guns. This obviously flies in the face of reality as the 20th century has proven once and for all.

It’s important to note that those who advocate this type of centralized monopoly of violence do so as cowards, because it’s not their lives 
on the line, rather they advocate others using violence on their behalf in
order to force their misguided views on innocent people who wish to do nothing other than protect themselves and other innocents.

There is no such thing as "gun control," there is only centralizing gun ownership in the hands of a small, political class and the forces they control which, as recent history has proven is a murderous nightmare for the peace loving, disenfranchised, and disarmed citizenry.--Ron Danielowski