gun control lobby gets desperate

The gun control establishment has been on the decline for some years now. Absent Columbine-style incidents that can be manipulated into public and legislative sympathy for more restrictions on second amendment rights, the general trend has been to relax sometimes irrational restrictions on the public's rights to own firearms.

The fact is that claimed terrible consequences that the gun control establishment has stated would result from increased firearm rights have simply not come about. Instead, crime rates seem to come down as gun rights increase. It will result in a major blow to the gun control lobby and their highly paid staffers if voters in places like Washington DC and New York start to become aware that increased gun ownership by law-abiding citizens will lead to less crime and that the gun control lobby has lied and misrepresented facts for years.

A sign of the lobby's desperation is their attempt to convince Florida visitors that recent changes in Florida's self defense laws will lead to shootings of innocent visitors. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth as the gun control lobby well knows. The intent of the Florida law is to permit individuals to exercise longstanding rights to self defense without fear of prosecution by aggressive liberal prosecutors. Having long ago lost credibility with Florida voters and legislators, the gun control lobby is now resorting to passing out misleading leaflets and sponsoring misleading advertisements to visitors to the state.

One thing you can be sure the gun control lobby will never do is to compare crime rates in places with substantial firearms freedoms like Florida with those in Washington, DC or New York City with the most stringent firearms control in the country.