Concealed Guns and the North Carolinataliban aka General Assembly

Guns

In North Carolinatalibanistan the mental midgets in the general assembly have pushed back against towns that have passed strict concealed carry laws for guns.  The towns in the interest of their citizens now must bow to state control and their local ordinances must jive with state law when it comes to weapons of mass destruction namely: the American handgun, rifle and assault weapon.

The socially corrupt gun apologists on the right also known as the rabid second amendment gun lobby, insist that concealed weapons reduce crime, to that I site the Washington Post….12/17/2012

National Research Council of the National Academies devoted a chapter in a report titled “Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review” examining Lott’s research. The report concluded:

No link between right-to-carry laws and changes in crime is apparent in the raw data, even in the initial sample; it is only once numerous covariates are included that the negative results in the early data emerge. While the trend models show a reduction in the crime growth rate following the adoption of right-to-carry laws, these trend reductions occur long after law adoption, casting serious doubt on the proposition that the trend models estimated in the literature reflect effects of the law change. Finally, some of the point estimates are imprecise. Thus, the committee concludes that with the current evidence it is not possible to determine that there is a causal link between the passage of right-to-carry laws and crime rates.

So nuff said on that. A whole lot of mish mash to say…NO causal link between the right to carry and reduced crime.  This right wing argument is so much like their climate change rants…they cow and crow that because they don’t like the science  they then refuse to  believe the science.

Finally, I refused to be lectured by those on the right and those in the gun lobby that they should be painted as victims in this argument because they feel as if their rights are being abridged.

So I site the following:

Sandy Hook Elementary, three semi-automatic guns used, gun owner killed by her gun and her child. Her guns legally owned fell into the hands of a lunatic because she didn’t have a sense of moral decency to rid her home of these horrid tools.  Sadly, Nancy Lanza knew her son was nuts. But the gun toting genie was out of the bottle and twenty six teachers and children shot dead in less than fifteen minutes. In my opinion, the first victim, Nancy Lanza, guilty of accessory to murder and to that she was sentenced to death prior to the crime. And worst of all, her death sentence was carried out by her child. 

At Virginia Tech, Seung Hui Cho, described by ABC News as insane/mentally ill buys two guns legally, passes background checks and in fifteen minutes shoots fifty six and kills thirty two. The internet gun sellers are NEVER held to account for their accessory to murder in the sale of those weapons. Neither is the NRA which works tirelessly to weaken gun control laws.  Interestingly, Virginia Tech has been sued because of the actions of Cho the lunatic.  Yet I can find no evidence that Eric Thompson president of TGSCOM, a company now closed that ran fifty websites that sell guns and sold Cho the Walther P22 used in commission of his murderous rampage has ever, EVER been held to any account for his culpability in dropping a weapon of mass destruction into the hands of a nut.  Yet there is some justice…. And Eric Thompson isn’t an innocent, he’s a fraud and a huckster.

So my point…it is morally bankrupt for the State of North Carolina in a fit of right wing hysteria to assert its rights on municipalities that are interested in protecting their citizens by enacting strict conceal carry laws. Secondly I site that a well-armed citizenry in Virginia and Connecticut and across this country is unable to prevent local holocausts while toting concealed weapons. No gun toting buckaroo stopped Adam Lanza or Seung Hui Cho or the 11,078 gun murders  committed in 2010 alone.