According to the FBI, firearms were used in approximately 26% of all violent crimes in the United States, meaning 74% of the time, violent criminals used other weapons or even their own hands in the commission of such heinous acts. These stats mirror the crime stats of high crime countries where firearms are difficult to come by, countries like Britain or France, where people are urged to accept death or other forms or physical harm rather than defend themselves.

Indeed as the anti-self-defense crowd gears up for another campaign to restrict, if not outright ban gun ownership, one must ask what will they do when crime is not curtailed. These anti-gun advocates are not unlike the politicians who tirelessly call for more and more money for the nation’s failing public schools…it is little more than window dressing. The US already spends far more on education than virtually every other country on the globe, yet are schools are marginal at best.

Increased calls for gun control are yet another form of window dressing giving politicians and other “advocates” an opportunity to say “look what I’ve done” while in realty such actions do little to solve the problem. For generations gun ownership came with practically no restrictions and crime rates were only a fraction of what they are today. Now we are to believe that guns are the cause for violent crime…if so then what accounts for the 74% of violent crimes committed without firearms?

Perhaps we should ban human hands, kitchen utensils, baseball bats, frying pans, rope, water, automobiles, rocks, plastic bags, pillows, heavy furniture, bricks and anything else that can cause physical harm…

Better still perhaps parents should start parenting and individuals should start taking responsibility for their own actions and perhaps people should not look upon it as the duty of the state to be anywhere and everywhere, protecting them from harm, while waiting silently to be slaughtered, in the hope that the cavalry will rush in to save them…