Stolen Guns Might End Up In Criminal Hands – Ya think?
I recorded a show called “Guns in America” on the National Geographic channel last night. I was really hoping to see some sort of positive representation of guns, gun ownership, and gun use. What I saw when I watched this morning was a bad attempt at pretending to perhaps provide a fair story in the topic. They certainly did showed positive aspects of gun ownership, but always managed to inject some disparaging comment from the anti-gun camp.
I could go on and on about all the idiotic things they said pretending to be neutral. But this commentary really got me ROFLing…and then crying:
Guns In America – Stolen Weapons Might End Up In the Hands
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- “This is a family of law abiding gun enthusiasts. Still, if this cache of weapons ever were stolen, chances are they would make it into criminal hands.”
I suppose they meant they’d be sold to gangbangers and such. But I just can’t see how Peter Coyote (the narrator) could have uttered that line and then not complained to the writer, Patrick Prentice, that he’s going to sound like a moron. After all, a gun stolen is a gun already in the hands of a criminal.
More importantly, this logic is one of many tells of the anti-gunners. They love to see laws that blame the gun owners when a criminal breaks into your home and steals your guns.** They even want laws that allow prosecution of the original owner of the gun (i.e. the one that it was stolen from) if the gun is used in a crime.
These mindsets are clearly aimed and persecuting gun ownership. Unless the owner of the gun that was stolen is criminally negligent, for example leaving their gun lying in the street, why are they to blame for being a victim of theft? Do we try and charge typical burglary victims with conspiring to sell stolen goods when their DVD player or TV shows up on the black market? No! Why is a gun any different?
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FACT: Most full auto weapons recovered from criminals in the US have government serial numbers.
Comment by Old American — December 10, 2008 @ 7:45 pm
Do you have a cite for that? I can certainly believe it, but if you’ve got data to substantiate the claim of “fact,” that’d be good to know. I’m all for exposing facts that gut the arguments tossed out by the anti-gun crowd.
Comment by wtbl — December 10, 2008 @ 10:59 pm
Perhaps Old American is implying that most criminals in the US work for the government. Something I can certainly believe given the politicians we have.
If it is indeed fact please do post the link, because right now I’m more of the opinion that the door off the hinges southern border lets them in from Mexico.
Comment by Tom — December 18, 2008 @ 5:59 pm
I think the number of full auto weapons recovered from criminals in the US in any of the past 10 years can be counted using only my fingers. maybe my toes. Unless they have been stolen from the military/LEO or imported from overseas, I doubt there have been 10 fully automatic weapons used in crimes in the US. There have been almost zero new fully automatic firearms sold in the US to civilians since 1986.
Having said that, I can agree that most full auto weapons recovered from criminals have government serial numbers. All guns have had government serial numbers since sometime around the middle of the last century. Or do you mean that the guns are government-owned arms, stolen and circulated to the criminals? That would make sense, as only the government is allowed to purchase newly made fully automatic rifles now.
Comment by Mikee — April 1, 2009 @ 1:07 pm