From The Art Of Driving at The Odysseus Group:
What if I proposed that we hand three sticks of dynamite and a detonator to anyone who asked for them. All an applicant would need is money to pay for the explosives. You’d have to be an idiot to agree with my plan—at least based on the assumptions you picked up in school about human nature and human competence.
And yet gasoline, a spectacularly mischievous explosive, dangerously unstable and with the intriguing characteristic as an assault weapon that it can flow under locked doors and saturate bulletproof clothing, is available to anyone with a container. Five gallons of gasoline have the destructive power of a stick of dynamite. The average tank holds fifteen gallons, yet no background check is necessary for dispenser or dispensee. As long as gasoline is freely available, gun control is beside the point. Push on. Why do we allow access to a portable substance capable of incinerating houses, torching crowded theaters, or even turning skyscrapers into infernos? We haven’t even considered the battering ram aspect of cars—why are novice operators allowed to command a ton of metal capable of hurtling through school crossings at up to two miles a minute? Why do we give the power of life and death this way to everyone?
And yet Obama and Biden have historically fell all over themselves to ban the personal legal ownership of firearms from those that have committed no crime, and are statistically far safer within the general public that are drivers of automobiles and their purchasers of gasoline.
Just one more reason why gun control is not about safety, but is all about politics.
3 responses so far ↓
1 Southern Girl // Nov 17, 2008 at 10:30 am
Very well stated. Who could argue with that? Not I, not I.
2 Dan Z // Nov 17, 2008 at 10:46 am
Years ago you could buy dynamite in most states just by signing for it. You could also pick a firearm from the Sears or Wards catalog and have it delivered right to your door. And you know what? Crime rates were lower then.
3 Must read - The Sentinel // Nov 17, 2008 at 11:47 am
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