THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

GUN CRIME DEPENDS ENTIRELY ON WHO HAS THE GUNS | 2003-07-12

The case of Switzerland and our years of experience with concealed weapons permits demonstrate that the misuse of guns only occurs when bad people have them.

Does anybody really believe that any criminal who wants a gun can't get one because of a gun law?

Come on, world! The reason a person is a criminal is because he doesn't OBEY laws.

So the experience of permit holders and Switzerland just confirms what any person who is not actually mentally retarded would expect: if good people have guns, crime goes down, not up.

Nobody is going to march into a store in Switzerland and start shooting. Somebody there probably has a gun and will kill the terrorist with it.

Terrorists do their shooting in gun-free zones, where honest people obey the anti-gun laws and terrorists - surprise, surprise!! - don't.

The leftist stand for taking guns away from honest people shows once again that leftism is not "the other side" in a rational debate. Leftism is mentally retarded.

Respectable conservatism respects liberal intelligence. It is retarded, too.