One way you can tell that gun control will never work is simply by looking at the War on Drugs. After all, drugs are the only product more regulated than guns, with the hard stuff being prescription-only and with strict limits on how much you can get at a time.
And yet, despite all of that, people get drugs easily enough despite the laws. And I’m not talking about a tiny little bit or something they cooked up in a knock-off Winnebago on the outskirts of Albuquerque.
No, they can get a lot of it.
And guns.
A 54-year-old convicted felon from Georgia faces federal drug trafficking charges after investigators discovered roughly 53 kilograms of cocaine and two handguns inside a suburban St. Louis residence, federal authorities announced Monday.
Chad E. “J-Bo” Brown was charged in U.S. District Court in St. Louis with one count of possession with intent to distribute more than 10 kilograms of cocaine. He made his initial court appearance on Monday following his arrest late last week.
According to a criminal complaint and supporting affidavit, the Drug Enforcement Administration received intelligence on August 13 regarding a sizable cocaine shipment arriving in the St. Louis area.
Federal investigators tracked the shipment to a home in St. Louis County, identifying Brown as the primary suspect operating the property as a drug stash house.
That’s more than 100 pounds of cocaine, or one Keith Richards (the new official unit of measurement for drugs).
Seriously, that’s a lot of drugs, and yes, they found handguns.
Some anti-gunner will undoubtedly see this and think, “If only Missouri had universal background checks for gun sales,” and completely miss the massive amount of cocaine in the house, as if that could be bought from a neighbor lawfully.
That’s how we know, definitively, that gun control will never work as advertised. It’s not just that it infringes on our rights, though that’s enough on its own; it’s that we have tighter control over cocaine and yet we can’t keep that out of criminal hands, so how are you going to keep guns out of them? Especially if you’re going to claim to support my gun rights while tiptoeing around your desire to ban them all?
The answer is that you can’t.
It couldn’t be done with alcohol during prohibition, and it couldn’t be done with drugs. We can’t even stop the spread of particularly disgusting material featuring kids, for crying out loud, and the only people trying to legalize that aren’t doing it from a place of liberty. They’re trying to change the laws before the FBI checks their hard drives. That’s it.
If you can’t stop something so universally despised, how can you stop guns?
You simply cannot.
All you can do is make it harder for the good guys to fight back, while the criminals will get a Keith Richards of coke, a couple of guns, and anything else they want, all so they can do what they want and we’re powerless to stop them.
No thanks. I’d rather have dangerous liberty than peaceful slavery any day of the week.
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