The Robb Elementary School mass shooting should not be used to               chip away at the Second Amendment  

by Scott S. Powell

   It goes without saying that mass shootings, like the recent one in Uvalde, Texas, are always accompanied by emotional appeals for gun control, as though we don’t already have extensive gun control laws and as though guns are the problem and not the criminals and deranged people who go on killing sprees.

       Before tragedies such as the loss of 20-some lives at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas become politicized we are called to grieve and pray for the families and community affected. Then we are called to ask whether existing gun control laws already on the books are being enforced. It is important to enforce existing laws before we pass new laws. We do not ban automobiles or driving because we have accidents and pileups that take many more lives every year than gun violence.

       A free society does not control crime by forcing citizens, to adapt to new laws because of criminal behavior. In fact, it is the exact opposite—we force criminals and deranged people to accommodate themselves to the behavior of decency and respect for life, or they pay severe consequences.

       Switzerland--a country in which every household is armed--understands this and has significantly less gun violence because their citizens have a higher standard of civility and more respect for the value of life than what we find in America today. Incidentally, abortion is legal Switzerland up until the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, but it has one of the lowest rates of abortions and unwanted pregnancies among the developed nations. America’s problem is not guns, it is the decline in morality, high rates of broken homes, and the loss of respect for life.

       To ban guns because criminals and deviants misuse them, is to tell the law-abiding, that their rights and liberties depend not on their own behavior, but on the behavior of criminals, sociopaths, gang members, and the mentally ill.

       Up until 1996, Australia enjoyed a high degree of freedom much like we have in the United States. But after a series of mass shootings—with the worst in 1996 resulting thirty-five innocent people being killed by a deranged gunman—the Australian politicians decided to ban citizens from owning firearms except under certain circumstances. In the last 6 months, Australians have lost their civil rights freedoms, with police turning on the people enforcing lockdown laws with all the fervor of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. When Hugo Chavez banned gun ownership in Venezuela in 2012, he did so on basis of too much gun violence. Today Venezuela is a communist country that has driven five million of its citizens to flee the country.

       The Second Amendment is a vital piece of our Constitutional Republic, which provides for a government of the people, by the people and for the people. It should be noted, it is the only amendment that further specifies that the people’s right to keep and bear arms "shall not be Infringed."

 

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