[mrerick]

I do think it's significant that the Australian crime numbers went way up (especially for robbery) after they took away people's ability to defend themselves.

All of these proposed gun "control" approaches are just steps on the way to prohibition and confiscation. That is the ultimate goal of the gun grabbers here.

They problem is that prohibition has never helped reduce crime. It has always increased the opportunity for criminals to engage in new pursuits. Prohibiting alcohol failed. Prohibiting commercial sex failed. Prohibiting drugs failed. I am not supporting any of these things, but it should be obvious that prohibiting things in a free society doesn't work. Period.

The gun grabbers I've had to deal with here while lobbying our legislature are often mentally ill. Damaged in some way (either in their upbringing or after some violent event). It is remarkable that they think that the "solutions" that they have identified purely through their emotional energy could ever work. They even reject logic, and just get louder when challenged.

We once walked into the back of one of their pep-talk meetings in an auditorium just outside one of our legislative sessions. When they saw us quietly standing there listening, they were so upset that they stopped their meeting, and tried to figure out what to do with us. One got up close and started loudly insulting our members. Saying really crazy things. Finally, they asked the Sargent at Arms what they could do to throw us out... He just said, "ask them to leave". When we were asked, we quietly and politely left.