Gun Control Is Having As Many Law-Abiding People With Guns As Possible

In the wake of the Tucson shooting, liberals sought to blame conservatives, libertarians, and the Tea Party for the violence in Arizona.  Sheriff Dupnik, conjuring Clinton after the Oklahoma city bombings, blamed talk radio.  Democrats blamed Sarah Palin who had put crosshairs on a map to signify "target districts."  It was later discovered that the DLC had used bullseyes on their own map.  Although Democrats tried, inanely and unsuccessfully, to explain there was a difference between bullseyes and crosshairs, they eventually pulled down their own map. 

When Obama spoke in Arizona he said the blame was solely on the shooter and that making political hay out of a massacre was not acceptable.  While it did silence the critics on the left it did open the door for the old political saw that we can always still blame the gun.  David Axelrod and other WH insiders have said that the President will soon be tackling the issue of gun control.  In response to this leaked information, gun sales have risen and extended clips are on backorder at every major retailer.  While the gun sales data is public record, I know from personal experience how difficult it was to find an extended clip: 

Extended clips are likely to be a major target of any new legislation but extended clips aren't any more dangerous than any other type of clip.  For one, they make guns harder to conceal.  They also change the weight of the gun significantly so the recoil is vastly different from when the gun is fired without an extended clip.  They also tend to jam more often than conventional clips.

As Reason.com reports, a person can still buy a used extended clip that was grandfathered in and sold before the ban.  If this still wasn't possible, someone could buy multiple guns like the VT shooter did, a tactic that is far more common in mass murders.  If guns were all outlawed and every single person's gun was taken away, someone could ram the crowd with his car.  If cars were banned, a mass murder could go on a stabbing spree.

Study after study shows that gun control actually causes handgun murders to rise.  Utah has the most permissive gun laws in the nation and has one of the lowest murder rates, California has one of the strictest and their murder rate is above the national average.  Murder rates in D.C skyrocketed after the handgun ban but fell 25% after the law was overturned.   For the 17 years after Chicago banned handguns, during only 2 years was the murder rate as low as the pre-ban levels while murders in major cities without such laws declined steadily. 

So the old cliche is true.  When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.  In which state would you rather rob a 7-11 in, New Jersey or Texas?  In New Jersey, guns are regulated to the point where they are nearly impossible to get through legal means.  In Texas, many people carry guns legally.  Criminals think twice about robbing, killing or raping when they think their victim might be armed.  Gun control should be an issue every feminist should be against but they're liberals and maintain their typical illiberal attitude towards firearms.

Despite the occasional nut who uses a gun who commit an atrocity, guns actually have a deterrent effect on crime and making laws after such atrocities will only create more victims.