Too Much Gun Control?
December 1, 2008
“If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.” — The Dalai Lama, (May 15, 2001, The Seattle Times) speaking at the “Educating Heart Summit” in Portland, Oregon, when asked by a girl how to react when a shooter takes aim at a classmate
That is one of the quotes in a recent article at LewRockwell.com a libertarian commentary site and blog. The article concludes that overly strict gun-control contributed to the incident in India over the the past week and weekend and indeed contributes today to a majority of violent crimes across the world. The argument is simple and well-known… “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” But The article looks past the rhetoric and into some of the implications of gun control. It also draws some quotes off of some very interesting minds like The Dalai Lama. How do you feel about gun control? Do you believe in limited regulation? If so, why? Where does the regulation begin and where is it justified and where is it not?
December 1, 2008 at 7:50 pm
I agree with the gun control point.
The seeming reluctance of armed police, first on the scene, to respond effectively to the terror attack is interesting, and something that we should think about as we analyze our own readiness for a similar type of attack in the U.S.
I argue here that at other times in history we were fairly prepared for unpleasant surprises like what occurred in Mumbai, using the historical example of the James-Younger raid on Northfield Minnesota. Cheers.