Gun Rights Imperiled

Two paroxysms of "gun" violence, rocked the world in the last day. One in Alabama, with relatively easy access to guns and ammunition and one in Germany with relatively restrictive gun laws. Both attacks must be viewed with utter revulsion-but neither should be used as the excuse for tighter gun regulations. These regulations are self-defeating and only make the law abiding public more vulnerable to those criminals who ignore the law no matter what it is. If someone has a determined criminal mentality, will a law on paper stop them from obtaining an illegal gun? Only in an absolutist regime, with every inch of every house searched with a fine-tooth comb, every metal shop where a zip gun could be fabricated closed, and every inch of ground explored with metal detectors, could guns be seized from the public fully, and if such draconian action were attempted, even those dispatched to take the weapons might well turn their guns against those initiating the orders, or an enraged public might righteously storm government arsenals and overturn this action that resists the most basic natural law, the right to protect oneself and one's family. My deepest sympathies are extended to the victims of both outrages, but don't use madness as a pretext or rationale for stealing one of our most basic, God-given, human rights.