Penn & Teller: Gun Control is BS
Watch it while it’s up, which I suspect won’t be long (Warning — contains strong R language; HT Instapundit via “Arms & the Law“).
They even get to the “we wouldn’t be a free country today if it weren’t for guns” and “you may need to protect yourself from your own government” arguments.
Other points:
- The Brady Bill has largely failed to keep guns out of the hands of criminals.
- What would happen to male-on-female crime if it were well-known that at least half of all females are armed?
- Gang members like gun control laws (there are 20,000 of them) because they know that they restrict citizens and make them (the citizens) vulnerable.
- Accidental deaths of juveniles are a very tiny percentage of all gun deaths.
- Columbine could not have been prevented by more gun control laws.
The most important point — The Founders in the Second Amendment made the right of the People to keep and bear arms a right that the Militia could never take away. Grasp this, because it’s a total turnaround of the PC logic ordinarily used — the Amendment’s language shows that the Founders recognized the need for militias, but also that those same militias could be a threat to ordinary people, who thus need to be armed. In other words, because the militias have weapons, ordinary people need them too.
When the full vid disappears you can still go to the episode’s link at Showtime for an overview.
