Frank Smith Says NB: The Republican-American Gun controllers strike again

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

The Republican-American Gun controllers strike again

8 comments:

Anonymous said...: WOW, this editorial really displays how the Democrats are totally destroying our state and our cities.

Maybe if the Herald printed editorials like this, people would actually want to read their paper?; March 23, 2011 at 6:06 PM
Anonymous said...: One more way that Connecticut is moving in reverse, compared to the rest of the country. While our legislators are counting our bullets, the Florida legislature is working on allowing anyone to carry guns in the open in Florida:

Florida senator has proposed a loosening of the state’s gun laws in a bill which would allow gun owners with a permit to openly wear their handguns in public view.

Last December Senator Greg Evers, R-Crestview, filed Senate bill 234 which would make openly wearing firearms legal in Florida for the first time in decades, according to the Palm Beach Post.

Evers said not only would it be a crime deterrent but people who have concealed weapons permits would not be punished if their guns are accidentally exposed.

Currently 43 states have “open carry” laws.

Apparently Florida is about to become #44!; March 23, 2011 at 6:49 PM
Anonymous said...: It is tough to say which is odder - the media's conviction, against all evidence and logic, that ''greater restrictions'' on gun ownership will protect the public from armed criminals, or their serene belief that most Americans agree with them.

Would more and stricter gun control laws have an impact? Absolutely - on people who obey laws. But they aren't the people who commit drive-by shootings, rape women at gunpoint, or hold up convenience stores. Those people will get firearms no matter how stiff the laws are. They'll steal them, buy them on the street, transport them illegally across state lines. Violent felons will always have weapons. The question is whether honest citizens - read: potential victims - will. The one thing more gun control ensures is less protection for the innocent. Which explains why cities with hyper-stringent gun regulations are often hyper-deadly as well.; March 23, 2011 at 7:52 PM
Anonymous said...: Just like with socialism, Democrats are once again apparently not capable of learning from history.

The basic fact is that the more available guns are to the law abiding public, the lower the overall crime rate is and the safer everyone is. This is because criminals fear an armed victim much more than they do the police--especially in such a liberal system like Connecticut where there is virtually no punishment for criminals--almost never.

Some of the most dangerous cities in America are that way as a direct result of the liberals disarming the citizenry. If you doubt me, go take an evening stroll in Obama's South Chicago neighborhood where the authorities have been powerless to stop 12 year olds from gunning each other down on the way to school, or how about a nice evening stroll in Washington DC?

These are 2 cities that have proven that disarming the public puts them in harm's way.

Apparently through their actions, Democrats in Connecticut are saying that they favor a drastic increase in gun violence in our cities.; March 23, 2011 at 8:09 PM
Anonymous said...: In an exhaustive marathon of research, University of Chicago Law School professor John Lott and economist David Mustard analyzed FBI crime records from all 3,054 US counties over a 19-year period (1977-1995). Nothing, they found, had a more decisive impact in lowering violent crime rates than the adoption of ''shall-issue'' laws - i.e., laws giving adults with no criminal record the right to carry concealed handguns.; March 23, 2011 at 8:25 PM
Anonymous said...: Your forgot Article First, Sec 15 of the Connecticut Constitution:

SEC. 15. Every citizen has a right to bear arms in defense of himself and the state.; March 24, 2011 at 12:18 AM
Anonymous said...: I'm sure that all of the fine, upstanding gang members, participants of organized crime, and other nefarious individuals residing in this state will all turn their high capacity magazines for their pistols and rifles like good boys and girls.; March 24, 2011 at 2:02 AM
Anonymous said...: You found a Democrat who even knew there was a constitution?

Anonymous said...

Your forgot Article First, Sec 15 of the Connecticut Constitution:

SEC. 15. Every citizen has a right to bear arms in defense of himself and the state.; March 24, 2011 at 1:26 PM

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