As Orrin Hatch wrote in a report about gun control and the history of the second amendment from the SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION to the COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY in 1982.
“If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal acts reduced by such legislation. That they cannot do so after a century and a half of trying -- That they must sweep under the rug the southern attempts at gun control in the 1870-1910 period, the northeastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, the attempts at both Federal and State levels in 1965-1976 -- establishes the repeated, complete and inevitable failure of gun laws to control serious crime. “
Surely, if any such measures actually worked ANYWHERE in the world in the 400+ years that firearms have existed, the Anti-gun crowd would let us know.
It hasn't, and they can't. At no time in history has the act of writing words on paper EVER controled crime. It is only by the actions taken against criminals that has done any good. Words may help explain intent and provide instruction, but unless there is action by men of good character, the words are meaningless.
Imagine of the Declaration of Independance was sent and then all the colonists simply stepped aside and allowed the British to confiscate their arms.
Imagine if you passed a law forbiding murder and then never bothered to arrest the murderers.
This is the problem with crime today. We have all the laws we need - I argue that we have far too many. The part that is missing is the part where you take the law breaker and remove them from society.
Do you really think that the murders in Boston are being committed by people who up to that point had no legal issues, or history of violence? And yet, the Mayor allows these animals to roam his streets. If they released known man eating tigers or hungry Pythons into the streets don't you think there would be an uproar from the public? And yet, violent criminals are being released from prison in large numbers.
Meanwhile the anti-gun crowd pushes the idea that if we just write some more words on some more paper, everything will be rosey. The sad part is that so many idiots buy it.