In an editorial today in The Herald-Sun, the chin-pullers on Pickett Road bemoan the fact that state legislators are considering measures that would kill the requirement that a citizen needs to obtain a permit from their local sheriff before purchasing a handgun, allow guns in cars on school grounds, and allow concealed carry in bars.
As one could have predicted, they reference the Sandy Hook murders in an effort to claim the high moral ground:
After the killing of 26 people – 20 of them 6- and 7-year-olds – at a Connecticut elementary school last year, it seemed possible we might see stricter regulations of guns and gun sales that would respect our Second-Amendment rights while reining in the proliferation of deadly weapons.
But national efforts failed in Congress, the frenzy of fear triumphing over even such limited propositions as extending background checks to sales at gun shows.
In North Carolina, not content to simply thwart efforts for stronger measures at control, legislators seem intent on opening yet more fissures in our defense against guns in the wrong hands and the wrong places.
They include the following quote from Gail Neely, executive director of North Carolinians Against Gun Violence:
“There is no credible evidence that this bill will make us safer in North Carolina,” she said. “We have tons of evidence to show it may not, in fact, make us safer.”
That quote, verbatim, easily could be used, and was, as a criticism of just the kind of legislation The Herald-Sun‘s editorial writers and Ms. Neely would like to see enacted in North Carolina and nationally. An assault-weapon ban, which Neely and liberal editorial writers slavishly support, was in effect in Connecticut at the time of the Sandy Hook shootings. This little complication in their logic seems never to faze them, however.
Herald-Sun and Ms. Neely, you need to understand that criminals don’t buy guns legally, criminals don’t get background checks, criminals don’t get concealed carry permits, and criminals don’t register their guns with the Durham County Sheriff’s office within 10 days of purchase, as law-abiding citizens do. There is “no credible evidence” that the legislation you desire would keep guns out of the hands of criminals. In fact, it’s patently obvious that it wouldn’t.
