Ban Guns and the Loonies Will Find Something Else
I saw this little tidbit on Drudge today and it again drives home the proven fact that banning guns doesn’t make people safer, it makes law-abiding citizens less able to defend themselves:
Six dead in South Korea fish knife frenzy
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A financially strapped South Korean man went on an arson and stabbing rampage in Seoul on Monday, leaving six people dead and seven others wounded, police said.
The 31-year-old suspect, identified only by his surname, Jeong, first set fire to his room in a low-cost lodging facility in southern Seoul and then stabbed other residents with a sashimi knife while fleeing the fire, police said.
Five people were stabbed to death and another died after jumping out of a window to escape the blaze, police said.
Seven others were wounded, including four seriously, and the death toll could rise, according to police.
The suspect, arrested at the scene, told police he did not want to live because “everybody looks down on me,” Kim Kap-shik, chief detective at Seoul’s Gangnam Police Station, told reporters.
Yonhap news agency and other media reported that Jeong has been convicted of crimes eight times in the past. Police were not immediately available to confirm Jeong’s criminal record.
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Once again a career criminal with a history of mental illness goes off and engages in violence against the citizenry. That is so bizarre. And unpredictable.
If they’d had a way to defend themselves, then someone wouldn’t have had to jump out of a window to get away from the attacker. On second thought, anyone who jumps out of a multiple-story window to avoid a knife attack may not be the most tactically minded person in an emergency situation.
Britain has a law now banning “assault knives” as the number of people using knives and swords in crimes has exploded. Taking away guns didn’t make England safer (ask the Home Guard veterans about this, if anyone over there is still alive that remembers) , but instead forced criminals to find a new way to conduct their nefarious deeds. The citizens – now unarmed – are left to their own devices and must rely on random chance to not become the victims of crime.
Banning guns does nothing to reduce crime. Reduction in crime comes from taking a long look at what causes the problem (unemployment, ridiculous drug laws, disenfranchisement with society, a lack of opportunity or hugs/love from parents) – versus trying to stop it by taking away people’s rights.
We have enough laws, statutes, provisions, and acts to restrict us in every aspect of our lives from now until The Judgment. What we need is to punish the hell out of folks who use guns in a crime – mandatory sentences – and get these violent ne’er-do-wells off of the streets and away from giving gun haters the ammunition they need for their ultimate goal of banning private firearms ownership.