8 thoughts on “Adam Gopnik”

  1. Unlike you people I believe that crime happens not only because there is a motive but because there is also the means and opportunity to do it. Of course if there is a wider access to weapons people will be more inclined to use them when they commit a crime. How many gun related crimes have you heard of where the person doing the shooting used a lawfully acquired gun that someone else in the house failed to secure properly? Then there is the matter of accidental deaths due to gun mishandling.

    You like to compare with Switzerland. Well there the only people with assault rifles are those who did military training and the guns are kept locked inside a case.

      1. Can you drive in a public road without a drivers license? Is it too much to verify first if someone has the minimum requirements to own a gun before buying one?

        As for automatic weapons and the like its little different from having speed limits. Its to reduce the body count in the worst case scenario.

          1. Right now I don’t any guns (they’re expensive and my means are limited); but if I did I won’t want to register them because Big Brother can’t confiscate what Big Brother doesn’t know about. Of course, to statists, that would be a feature of registration, not a problem.

    2. Hey Godzilla, how about you educate yourself before posting progressive gibberish? Have you been to Switzerland? They have public shooting ranges in the middle of town (see Baar for example). And if more guns equals more crime, you’ll want to inform John Lott and Gary Mauser that their well-researched papers are all wrong.

      1. Hey Godzilla, how about you educate yourself before posting progressive gibberish?

        Physician, heal thyself. Switzerland closely monitors not only who a weapon has been issued to, but even the government-issued ammunition. If someone wants to maintain the weapon past their military obligation, they must be fully licensed to keep it. The authorities control for improper use of a service weapon. And weapon permits are required for acquiring weapons.

  2. “What is it about ‘progressives’ and guns?”

    Whatever it is, it’s strange. They love aggressive force (you can’t have statism without it), yet defensive force tends to make them uncomfortable. They dislike guns, but are in love with the State–the bloodiest gun-toter of them all. Of course if they were more rational they wouldn’t be “progressives,” but their antipathy to guns (at least guns in the hands of private citizens) seems to be an irrational hoplophobia, no more rational than their economics.

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