Yes, because prohibition makes it lucrative on the black market. Just like alcohol lead to violence and the rise of the Mafia.
And some fools around here don’t think they’ll kill you over guns. The same tired excuses that are trudged out for the drug war will be the same tired excuses trudged out to justify the “war on guns.”
Nothing blows my mind about policy enforcers anymore. Gone are the days of the Peace Officer, the guy you run to for help, or ask for directions in an unfamiliar town. Power over others, insulated from the consequences of abusing that power, leads to self-righteous corruption.
These are the people who lock up a history professor for an 18th century flintlock pistol cuz muh law sayz, or a single mother of 3 driving through a craptastic State with her completely legally owned pistol, flashbangs kids in their beds then blames the kid, or shoots the kid in the head and blames the grandmother, or gets caught on camera shooting a guy in the back and planting evidence on the body, or on their own body cameras planting drugs at a location to justify a search, or forgetting to turn off a pedestrians cell phone camera and recording themselves conspiring to charge him with something to teach him a lesson, or pulling over women on the side of 77 and raping them, or making challenge coins for a cop with his 4th justified homicide, or extrajudicially taking more money and property from the People they claim to serve than burglars did over the same time period.
It’s an institutional and systematic abuse of authority and power, wrapped in the idea that they’re doing it to protect you from you, that they’re the lone good guys standing against a specter of evil no one else can see, and that any action they take to do it is righteous and moral.
But to argue that maybe something is wrong, that the litany of cases in which abuse of authority or outright disregard for the well-being of the Public at large makes you anti-Cop, makes you a troll, or “everybody knows what you were going to say.”
It’s a pathetic cop out, and not the position any Freedom loving people would willingly place themselves.
In any other instance, without the costume and tin shield, the headline would read:
Milwaukee Homeowner kills intruder in early morning home invasion
