Putting all the eggs in one basket

The wages of gun control:

Tragically, over the Thanksgiving holiday, the world was reminded how evil and cruel people can be. According to emerging accounts of the events in India, about a dozen well-armed and devastatingly well-trained terrorists laid siege on the city of Mumbai, killing almost two hundred people, and terrorizing thousands.

Gun control advocates tell us that removing guns from society makes us safer. If that were the case why do the worst shootings happen in gun free zones, like schools? And while accidents do happen, aggressive, terroristic shootings like this are unheard of at gun and knife shows, or military bases. It bears repeating that an armed society truly is a polite society.

Your safety has always, ultimately been your own responsibility, but never more so than now. People have a natural right to defend themselves. Governments that take that away from their people should be highly suspect.

Gun control, ultimately, is about enforcing a State monopoly on the use of force. It's a utopian approach, ignoring three critical factors:
- Criminals will never adhere to the controls, thus there will always still be a threat
- The State can never respond as quickly to an incident as a citizen on the scene can... and the citizen has far more motivation to act in a crisis than does a paid public employee
- When the State achieves a monopoly on the ability to use force, there is little to restrain it from sliding toward tyranny.

Better to tolerate an armed society where the occasional idiot goes off half-cocked (briefly, before his armed neighbors put an end to it), than a defenseless mass of humanity, huddled under the protective umbrella of a government that may or may not have their defense or best interests as its first priority.