The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence (I don’t link there) is the nation’s largest, liberal, well-funded organization leading a fight to prevent gun violence through making it tougher for law-abiding citizens to own firearms. President Clinton signed the original Brady bill into law fifteen years ago on November 30, 1993.
Yesterday I offered a summary of the massacre in India. Then I discovered how what the Brady Bunch wants to do in the US would facilitate the same carnage that happened in India. Read this excellent analysis by David Codrea:
Only a small group of determined monsters created the carnage…
And perhaps the most troubling question to emerge for the Indian authorities was how, if official estimates are accurate, just 10 gunmen could have caused so much carnage and repelled Indian security forces for more than three days in three different buildings.
…by exploiting a disarmed victim pool.
The Oberoi Group employs many plainclothes security officers in its hotels, but these are unarmed, Oberoi said. Obtaining a license for even a single officer to carry a gun is extremely difficult in India, which has tight gun control laws.
Yet even security guards armed with handguns might hesitate to resist an assault by heavily armed terrorists who have a detailed knowledge of the hotel’s layout, as was the case at the Oberoi and Taj.
So much for relying on the “Only Ones.”
Pros deride terrible tactics and poor equipment in face of Mumbai crisis.
Fortunately, the elites and well-connected were taken care of.
“Last night, as the events of the terror attack unfolded in front of me I did something for the first time and one that I had hoped never ever to be in a situation to do. Before retiring for the night, I pulled out my licensed .32 revolver, loaded it and put it under my pillow. For a very disturbed sleep,” the megastar wrote on his blog.
Only a few bad people can cause great damage. That is what criminals do in the US today. It makes absolutely no difference how many gun laws we have on the books, the criminals will continue to commit the same level of gun crime.
But Brady does want to severely restrict the ability of the law-abiding victims to be able to have their own gun handy and ready to meet force with force. Brady wants to make the US more like India where common folk just cannot own firearms. And look how well that worked out for them.
We thus are forced to rely completely on the government for our protection. It didn’t work out too well for India, and it won’t work in the US. When seconds count the police are only minutes away. If a criminal is running towards you with a gun, knife, or crowbar in his hands do you really think he’s going to give you time to call 911 and wait for the cops to arrive?
And you can rest assured that the Pretty People® (celebrities, sports pros, elected officials) will find ways to legally protect themselves, or else they’ll have their own personal bodyguards, and us of the Great Unwashed® will be left to fend for ourselves.
So the next time you glow over überPresident Obama talking about “reasonable” gun laws, just imagine yourself on the streets or in the hotels during the recent Mumbai massacre. As for my family and me, we’ll take our chances with our firearms.
Brady Center, gun violence, firearm, Brady bill
2 responses so far ↓
1 Linz // Dec 4, 2008 at 7:24 am
If all I had was a “.32 revolver” I’d have a night of “very disturbed sleep”, too. I mean, seriously, a .32 REVOLVER? Could you get a less appropriate gun for mowing down some attackers?
If I get a bonus from work, I might just get that .45 I’ve been wanting instead of paying off my credit card.
No kidding.
2 Southergirl // Dec 4, 2008 at 12:37 pm
check out http://www.nola.com “Homicides.” Granted-that’s one of the most violent cities in the nation…but the list goes on and on and on. My father lives in New Orleans and carries a concealed weapon EVERYWHERE he goes. He’s not going to chance it.