American Hunter – August 2019

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E

ver since taking control of the

U.S. House of Representatives, the

Democrat leadership, with the full

support of the vast majority of their caucus,

has been waging an unprecedented assault

on the Second Amendment. Led by Speaker

Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the caucus has been

an entity in virtual lock-step promoting a

laundry list of today’s most popular anti-gun

proposals. Whether it is banning semi-

automatic firearms and placing limitations

on magazine capacities, pushing “universal”

background checks, imposing potentially

endless waiting periods or trying to use

financial institutions to drive their political

agenda, anti-gun Democrats are looking

to exploit every opportunity they can to

promote their attacks on our freedoms.

At every step, Pelosi and her minions

push anti-gun legislation with the lie that

each proposal will be the death knell to

violent crime committed with firearms.

Of course, we’ve all heard this mantra for

decades. And for decades we’ve seen every

anti-gun law that has passed fail to put a

dent in crime, only to be followed by a new

proposal that the gun-ban extremists insist

will get the job done ... this time.

Supporters of the Second Amendment

have always known that gun-control laws

have a fatal flaw: Criminals don’t obey the

law. They ignore or circumvent the new laws

just as readily as they ignore or circumvent

the old ones. If they are willing to commit

robbery, why would they not also be willing

to commit armed robbery? If they are willing

to commit assault, why would they not be

willing to commit assault with a deadly

weapon? And if they are willing to commit

homicide, again, why would they not be

willing to commit homicide using a firearm?

One more law will not stop a violent criminal

from being a violent criminal.

The people actually impacted by gun-

control laws are, of course, law-abiding gun

owners, who were never part of the problem

to begin with. They may not agree with anti-

gun laws, but they tend to obey them while

working to change them.

This doesn’t mean that there are no

options for addressing violent crime. The

secret, which isn’t really a secret, is to go after

the actual offenders. One good example is

Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN).

Started in 2001 under President George

W. Bush, PSN is a collaborative effort,

utilizing the resources of federal, state and

local law enforcement, prosecutors and

community leaders to target violent crime

at the local level. Specific priorities are

identified based on the local environment,

and solutions are developed, with the

primary objective of going after the most-

violent offenders and putting them in prison.

Are Anti-Gun Representatives Now

Opposed to Safe Neighborhoods?