On Gun Control: Reflections on a Dirtbag Named Hasan

This is a re-pub of a note from my face book page of the indicated date.

by Matt Worner on Friday, 31 December 2010 at 07:55

Back in 1968 there were areas in Viet Nam where the civil and military authorities had given up any hope of effective control. They were designated as "free fire zones" and as we flew over them (I was a door gunner) if we saw anything that moved we were free to engage and destroy it. Even there the enemy were allowed to shoot back! They knew that when they went there they took their lives into their own hands. (Rather like areas of New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles)
Now in accordance with the "law of un-intended consequences" (the underlying principle of most of the idiocy emanating from our congresscritters) we have a similar clutch of free fire zones in schoolyards, campuses, courthouses, military installations (including VA hospitals; although why they would be afraid of an armed constituency makes sense),  and yes even post offices! Actions legal anywhere else are criminalized in these "sensitive" areas. Simple possession of a device of self protection (a God given right guaranteed to be un-infringed by government) is a criminal act, regardless of whether used or not. Note, however, that the government, the servant of the people, reserves unto itself rights denied to the masters, the citizenry. Yes, the Fort Hood victims were required to die while waiting arrival of the government minions to take action; those self same police who have NO RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT ANY INDIVIDUAL. Real Catch 22 situation. "You cannot protect yourself, and I don't have to." Not that policemen of all stripes will not go to the wall to protect an individual; they have, numerous times and many have sacrificed their own lives doing so, but there is no legal imprimatur requiring them to. In fact courts have ruled numerous times that the police are there to protect "society as a whole" (which by and large means government minions first, others if possible) but not any individual.
What other civil right requires you to take a course ($100.00) and pay a registration fee (another $100.00) to exercise. Imagine the outrage if you were required to pay $100 to register to vote, and another at the polls. And the right to vote is not even guaranteed in the Constitution! Implied, of course, and by amendment precluded from being denied to individuals based on certain characteristics (race, gender, age) but never specifically guaranteed like the right to defend yourself and loved ones, even from the government! But the government infringes on these rights at will and few want to go through the legal nut roll of violating their unconstitutional fiat. After all, even when you're exonerated in court, your lawyer has to be paid.
The fact of the matter remains, ALL gun control laws are unconstitutional unless the second amendment is repealed (and the odds of getting 38 states to go along with that are slim to none).   They only continue to be passed by traitors to their oaths to "protect, preserve and defend" and enforced by similar traitors.