Common Sense Gun Control

“Common sense gun control laws” is all the President, Vice President and their kindred liberals want. The issue I have is what is common sense? The more than 20,000 laws pertaining to firearms we already have don’t benefit from common sense? It gives me the feeling that the liberal/progressive folks have more in mind than simple common sense.

To me common sense is to have a few basic laws, which we do have many times over, and enforce them vigorously. Even with this, there are no guarantees that incidents such as New Town can be prevented. Ill-intentioned people procure their weapons on the street because most are already prevented from purchasing weapons legally or they steal them as did the perpetrator at New Town.

A case in point from personal experience: I worked in a gun store/shooting range for several years during my early retirement years. While working for the gun store I personally had six incidents of a convicted felon attempting to purchase a firearm. They were caught by the background check (good) but nothing was ever done about the situation or to them other than denying the transfer. These individuals committed a crime by attempting to purchase a firearm and our government did nothing, but when something bad occurs, the Liberals (and other easily led dolts) clamor for more laws. Why?

Why do we need more laws when we don’t even enforce the current ones? More laws do nothing to deter a criminal, mentally ill person or sociopath. One might assume that the six felons I dealt with used other avenues to secure a weapon when they should have been arrested and prosecuted for the felony they committed attempting to purchase a firearm. Once again our government and its agencies failed to follow through on their job and then cry for more new laws when something goes awry.

What a sad commentary on our government and society when all we can do is talk, create new standards, then sit and pray something happens. How very sad, how inexcusable.

Fred davis says:

January 8, 2013 at 1:19 pm

Well said! However, I see one flaw in your post. The use of the term “common sense” does not apply when speaking of government. I have found that government officials who make sense on a given topic are rather few and far between!

What the American people need to do is start labeling these liberal/socialist officials as “un-American”! In blogs, in the media, in conversations with friends and family, at every opportunity. If we can get people to start associating the term “liberal” with being “un-American”, then perhaps people will stop listening to their dogma!!!

Fred

Conan Payne says:

April 17, 2013 at 4:20 pm

Fred,

That’s old news buddy… The term “liberal”, which by any real definition is not any sort of pejorative terms, has been actively associated with a nameless negative connotation for about the last four and a half-decades. “Liberal” is now synonymous with that which is most bad, though most would be hard-pressed to coherently explain what the word actually means in any context, or why it should be perceived negatively.

This, of course, is a form of one of the most widely employed argumentative fallacies, “argumentum ad hominem,” or attacking the person positing a position rather than the position itself. Simply pu, you are advocating name-calling rather than discussion. Instead of hearing what someone has to say and evaluating it on its own merit you would rather label them “un-American” – whatever that is supposed to mean – and reject their position out of hand. I thought you were better than that.

As far as the article is concerned, one of the issues with our laws regarding firearms is the lack of uniformity. A federal standard regarding requirements for purchase and registration would go a long way toward both deterring/preventing those who ought not handle firearms from procuring them and enabling law enforcement officials to enforce the standards. “Common sense” is indeed a vague term, but there have been some specific suggestions made regarding how to mitigate gun violence. It is those suggestions that should be examined rather than splitting hairs over semantics if any meaningful discussion is to be had.

Conan

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