tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post3333758281138829932..comments2024-03-28T00:01:43.037-04:00Comments on Grim's Hall: Guns and Black MarketsGrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-54687011547066162572019-08-15T15:58:47.278-04:002019-08-15T15:58:47.278-04:00Other choices are more effective in attacking defe...<br />Other choices are more effective in attacking defenseless civilian targets.<br /> But firearms are the very best choice of defensive arms-bearable, accurate, selective, effective at a distance-<br /><br />So essentially the gun control zealots are saying, we don't want to stop attacks, we just want you unable to defend yourselves.<br />ravennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-52666080542184228352019-08-15T13:52:24.676-04:002019-08-15T13:52:24.676-04:00Wretchard was making that point last week. It tur...Wretchard was making that point last week. It turns out that the most deadly attacks don't use guns -- they use bombs, vehicles, or matches. Chaining the doors and setting a building on fire kills a lot more people than going in and shooting folks until the police show up.Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-41623341557367700342019-08-15T13:36:56.889-04:002019-08-15T13:36:56.889-04:00They don't care, and most don't have the s... They don't care, and most don't have the steam up to comprehend. (most will not have the historical knowledge to understand the last sentence). The ones that do, have no interest in stopping terrorism- they want MORE, as it provides Rahm's convenient "crisis". They want to disarm the political opposition to one party rule.<br /><br />Pro or con, discussing the efficacy of gun control in reducing crime is simply playing to their script.It obscures the main point.<br /><br />An aside- two main points about terrorists- <br />Most of the surveillance will be ineffective, because they do not care if they get caught- there is no deterrence possible in a western republic, against a suicide attacker. <br /><br />And complete elimination of firearms will merely shift the choice of tools to something with more punch- <br />ravennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-30543747130279847722019-08-15T12:59:10.272-04:002019-08-15T12:59:10.272-04:00Which brings me to a question I often ask in this ...Which brings me to a question I often ask in this sort of context. What is the Progressive-Democrats' limiting principle?<br /><br />Licensing lathes and mills? Licensing 3D printers? Their "ink?" Licensing metals refineries? Metal ore mines only operated by Government or by GSEs?<br /><br />One natural limit (not the only one) is "when we have no more guns in the hands of honest citizens, for their own good."<br /><br />Eric HinesE Hineshttp://aplebessite.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-39434520059981659732019-08-15T11:51:52.022-04:002019-08-15T11:51:52.022-04:00They may assume their opponents are lazy.
A neigh...They may assume their opponents are lazy.<br /><br />A neighbor I used to have, who was a High School science teacher, built a still at the school in order to make 95% pure alcohol to clean the instruments. The principal was aware, and approved the matter as a cost-saving measure provided that (of course!) none of it was ever drunk. <br /><br />My neighbor told me that one of the things that happened regularly was that his students would explain to him, when he was demonstrating its operation, how their family stills differed in this or that particular. <br /><br />People own machine shops, too. More people, soon, it could be.Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-2028620493439054612019-08-15T11:45:05.598-04:002019-08-15T11:45:05.598-04:00Of course, guns can be smuggled across borders: o...Of course, guns can be smuggled across borders: one would think that advocates of comprehensive gun control would also be in favor of border control, but apparently not.<br /><br />Also: progs seem to think that guns can only be made in official factories run by eevil corporations, but they can also be made in small workshops, which would certainly proliferate in any black-market environment. 3D printing is an additional enabler, but conventional machine tools work fine for those who know how to use them. Will be progs be calling of licensing of lathes and milling machines?David Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.com