Friday, July 22, 2016

Congress and Laws

Some Congressman by the name of Elijah Cummings is screaming that we need to pass more laws to control guns and violence. He doesn’t even impress me as an adult, he’s one of those that could panic theater viewers if the rest room lines were too long

Think about it for a minute, have the laws against handguns eliminated murder? People have killed others since the beginning of time. Everyone in this country is entitled to buy a gun before they commit their first felony. What we need to realize is that laws are there to prosecute people that violate the written law. They do not prevent people from trying to kill you. I remember back 30 years ago, a man in Cheyenne Wyoming, kicked in the restroom door on a women’s restroom and took pictures of the girl in there. The police arrested him, but he had violated no laws that could send him to jail. So they released him. Later, Wyoming fixed that by passing a law making it a crime. Of course, a week later, they found the gentleman tied to a fence post with his testicals removed.

Laws do not curb behavior; they only threaten to you with jail or prison if you get caught. If the driver next to you cuts you off and you get mad and kill him with a hand gun, you’ll get 5 years if you are caught, and with good behavior you’ll be out in 2 ½. Your odds of getting caught, about 1 in 5.

Hand guns, when mixed with alcohol and drugs, become a lethal combination. Many will go to jail for doing something very stupid they would have never done sober, like rob a store.

Believe it or not, forbidding the sale of fully automatic weapons, enabled the terrorist to kill more people. Pull the trigger on a fully automatic weapon, the clip is gone in one second and you have probably missed everyone or cut one person in half, but I digress.

The urge for Congress to act every time there is a problem is probably what has put us in this mess. We cannot regulate behavior with laws, we regulate behavior with financial rewards. You don’t shoot a Congressman; you bribe him or her. So in most cases, passing a law restricting the flow or sale of something only raises the price to the consumer. The wholesaler can charge more for illegal items. The laws created by the legislatures only change the mode of delivery and cost.

Let’s back off of the idiots in Congress. Most voters when confronted with a problem, demand an immediate government solution. Common sense suggests that if a government solution was available, it would have been applied a long time ago.

Maybe that is why most new business' start out of a garage, there are no government restrictions.

1 comment:

AMB said...

Well Mr. Jim... you make a good point. And we all should know that gun control has nothing to do with improving or protecting our society, which is a "reason" that masks the intention of total population control so that the elite and their henchmen (the government, soldiers, cops and prisons) can be safe.

The globalists, socialists, fascists, corporatists, are moving in hard and heavy. By the time they are done you'll go to prison for life for having a picture of a gun, or even just thinking about guns. The Dark Ages will soon be upon us unless the public's shift of confidence goes from the public to the private sector and the people wipe out the existing government (which is NOT a government that supports ALL the people) through lack of cooperation and contribution... which is the only way to wipe out a behemoth.