This is example of how the left believes that man can be perfected through government control. If they can just get enough of the right laws passed our benevolent masters believe they can create a worldly nirvana and once and for all cure our corrupted nature. They can fix God's mistake.
This is another issue that I have grown tired of. Like global warming, all of the evidence points to a conclusion that the activists on the left refuse to accept so they just ignore it. No matter how many times they are defeated they keep coming back; sort of like herpes. Their self righteous sense of moral superiority knows no bounds and recognizes no restraints.
It's time to move on.
July 2, 2004:
"A law to ban the carrying of guns in public and control illegal ownership has come into effect in Brazil.
The law, passed by Congress in December, came into force on Friday after being signed by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
It will tighten rules on gun permits and create a national firearms register, with strict penalties for owning an unregistered gun."
BBC
February 27, 2010:
"A boy steps boldly into the night traffic and waves a gun to bring the cars to a halt, clearing a path for a motorcycle which screeches into the intersection. Riding pillion is another boy, brandishing a machinegun.
Later two teenagers, also riding pillion on motorbikes, flash their guns at other motorists; nearby, a boy can be seen taking aim with a rifle equipped with a telescopic sight. Other youths wander the street smoking crack.
For residents, the junction between the busy Dom Helder Câmara and dos Democráticos, in North Rio de Janeiro, has become known as the Corner of Fear — and video footage of daily life there has shocked a nation already familiar with guns and violence."
Times Online
February 28, 2010:
"Gun control advocates think, if not pray, they can win by losing when the Supreme Court decides whether the constitutional right to possess guns serves as a check on state and local regulation of firearms.
The justices will be deciding whether the Second Amendment - like much of the rest of the Bill of Rights - applies to states as well as the federal government. It's widely believed they will say it does.
But even if the court strikes down handgun bans in Chicago and its suburb of Oak Park, Ill., that are at issue in the argument to be heard Tuesday, it could signal that less severe rules or limits on guns are permissible.
The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence is urging the court not to do anything that would prevent state and local governments "from enacting the reasonable laws they desire and need to protect their families and communities from gun violence."...
..."Chicago is defending its gun laws at the high court. Mayor Richard Daley said a ruling against his city would spawn even more suits nationwide and lead to more gun violence.
"How many more of our citizens must needlessly die because guns are too easily available in our society?" Daley said at a Washington news conference last week that also included the parents of a Chicago teenager who was shot on a bus as he headed home from school.
Annette Nance-Holt said her only child, 16-year-old Blair Holt, shielded his friend when a gang member boarded a bus and began shooting at rival gang members.
"You might ask, 'What good is Chicago's handgun law if so many of our young people are still being shot?'" Nance-Holt said. "All I can say is, imagine how many more would be if the law were not there."
AP News
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