Mychal Massie: "Anti-Gun Laws Favor Criminals"

Asserts the conservative Republican commentator: "The corner grocer, bank tellers and law enforcement officers do not fear legitimate, responsible gun owners - they fear criminals with guns. Legislatures can pass all the anti-gun legislation they want, but criminals will unfortunately still get guns and will still use them. That’s the point. Lawmakers, urged on by the malevolent cacophony of anti-gun ownership groups, have it backwards. America doesn’t need to further oppress the innocent - they need to direct their energies at getting criminals off the streets. They need to deglamorize the criminal use of firearms."

Mr. Massie continues his commentary: "It’s also easy for the anti-gun groups to blame conservative commentators for being responsible for gun violence based on their support of the Second Amendment. This, however, is a crude banausic idiocy based on agenda-driven contempt for any and all who disagree with them. To that point, how many anti-firearm groups contribute to charities that help the families of slain officers? How many funerals of the same slain officers have Susan Sarandon, Rosie O’Donnell, Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton attended? Mumia Abdul-Jamal is given hero status for supposedly being politically prosecuted for his cold-blooded murder by gun of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. New York undercover officers James Nemorin and Rodney Andrews were murdered execution-style as they tried to rid New York City streets of machine guns and the gang-bangers who possess them. It’s not clear how passing more restrictive laws or taking guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens would have prevented the murders of these officers."

More: "If legislators and anti-gun groups were serious about reducing - and possibly even ending - gun crimes, they would turn their scorn toward the criminals instead of finding criminality in legal gun ownership. They would direct their attention toward constructive ways to take guns out of the hands of thugs, gangs and abusive spouses that protects the innocent. As it is, their efforts are not the solution to gun crimes - they are part of the problem."