Is One More Law the Answer?

Work with me for a minute here...

Those on the "Left" would have you believe that all we need is to pass another anti-gun law and everything will be alright.  Just one more.  Ummmm.

I think that's kind of funny.  They want a new law.  Or several new laws.  They want a new law when every single mass shooting we've experienced since mass shootings began, I might offer, was in direct violation of a whole bunch of...already extant laws.

Let me repeat that.  Every person who chose to take a firearm and wage war on schools, or shopping malls, or churches, or synagogues, or anywhere else, did so in violation of existing laws.  Not dwelling on the intricacies of each shooting, but one can be reasonably certain each shooting that left somebody dead was a felony.  A crime.  A first degree murder.

Against the law, doncha' know.

Let's take a trip back in time to the Sandy Hook school massacre.  The mentally-challenged kid who killed all those people in Newtown, MA that day broke quite a few laws in so doing.  He firstly stole his mother's firearms from her locked safe.  That was a felony.  He then shot her in the face, killing her.  Another felony.  He placed the weapons in the trunk of his mother's car, which he then stole, and drove them to the Sandy Hook school.  Another felony.  By so doing he crossed four county lines and one state line with firearms in tow.  All felonies.  He then took the rifle and pistol and shot his way into a locked-down school.  A felony.  He followed up by murdering 26 people.  26 more felonies.  

The laws this young man broke that day, and all the laws that every mass shooter has violated since, are already on the books.  Counting local, city, county, state and Federal laws, there are more than 25,000 of them.  So anyone, anywhere who chooses to take up arms and kill their fellow citizens is already in violation of a myriad of existing laws.  

So I ask, rhetorically, why would the passage of another law, or laws, stop the next mass shooting?  Would the prospective shooter now pay attention to the new law just passed, and choose not to grab a gun and take a life?  Or several lives?  Especially when many of the preceding 25,000 laws have been systematically ignored for decades?

Somehow I doubt it.  And let me add that prosecutors all across our fruited plain have done their best to ignore the laws on the books and have failed to prosecute gun crimes to a degree few would imagine.  Remember those laws way back when that tacked on 5 years in the Gray Bar Hotel if one committed a crime with a gun?  Any crime?  Almost never employed.  Why?  No idea, except that maybe prosecutors in our largest, Democrat-controlled cities consider gang bangers and criminals and those who use guns in the commission of crimes to be a part of their core constituency.

Think of it.  It's almost impossible to get a gun in Chicago.  Chicago is every gun-grabbers dream when it comes to onerous, infringing gun laws.  The very toughest in the nation.  No question about it.  Yet, 18 people were shot there last weekend, and 7 of them died.  That brings the total number of gun deaths so far in 2019 to 350.  Chicago.  Where there are no guns, or at least there shouldn't be...if anyone there obeyed the law!

Remember that old admonition about doing a thing over and over and expecting a different result?  That's Chicago.  Doing nothing over and over and getting no results...

BTW, why isn't the Establishment Media talking about Chicago?  Yes, why?

So, if law enforcement doesn't use the laws we have on the books to try and put offenders in prison, and criminals don't obey the laws, why should we waste our time presuming that new laws would finally, finally cause prospective killers to put down their guns and become responsible citizens?

And BTW, loyal reader, I might ask if you've heard anything from anyone -  anyone at all - about an effort to try and pry guns out of the hands of gang bangers and criminals, the miscreants who have all the illegal guns and actually DO most of the shooting?  New laws proposed?  New sweeps to corral illegal weapons?  New, increased penalties for those who use firearms in the commission of a crime?  No?  I didn't think so...   

In other words, this whole thing is nothing but a gigantic sham!  An exercise in futility!  An effort by the Leftists amongst us to disarm us at any cost.  The Democrats want new laws to additionally restrict, and further diminish, and finally abolish our freedoms, one by one, just so they can exercise their power over us, the Common People.  

And if they can't get that, or even some of it, no big deal; they'll still have the issue to use when they run for office and beg for donations.  

And I don't like it.  Not one little bit.  How about you?