Protect the Constitution
– Read it, don’t violate it
Calls for greater gun control in response to the Tucson, Arizona massacre are growing daily on Capitol Hill.
This hardly comes as a surprise. For many legislators, the knee-jerk reaction to any criminal shooting is to pass yet another gun control law, despite the fact that the criminal already broke many laws in the commission of the crime.
The zaniest of the new proposals is one by Representative Peter King (R-NY) to ban guns within 1,000 feet of certain federal officials—including members of Congress. What the Congressman ignores is that what he euphemistically calls “gun free zones” are actually “criminal safety zones.”
Thankfully, House Speaker John Boehner flatly rejected the King plan.
Another proposal, being offered by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), would ban ammunition feeding devices holding more than an arbitrarily determined number of rounds.
For Mr. Lautenberg, the magic number is 10 rounds.
“These high-capacity clips (sic) simply should not be on the market,” Lautenberg said. “When the Senate returns to Washington, I will introduce legislation to prohibit this type of high-capacity clip.”
But what would Lautenberg say to the “average citizen” who runs out of ammunition when facing multiple attackers? Or, more accurately, what would he say to that victim’s family?
And now… the rest of the story. …..
Harold
