Where Was The Gun Control Issue In The Campaign?
Did you notice that hardly any candidate during the recent election spent more than 10 seconds on his “gun control plan.” I noticed, because I would have been firing off editorials and op-ed pieces to several newspapers. Perhaps it has something to do with a recent Zogby poll in which 70% of the respondents said they favored better enforcement of existing guns laws (over 20,000!) instead of creating new laws. Seven men recently broke out of a Texas prison. They took with them many weapons obtained during the breakout. Then, they robbed a sporting-goods store and stole an arm-load full of high-powered weapons. They also killed a police officer. No doubt there was a civilian in that store on or about the time of the robbery, filling out the forms and having his or her background checked with the F.B.I. The point we, even those of us who once enforced the Federal gun laws, have been making for decades is that criminals don’t obey gun-registration laws. Only honest citizens do. Maybe this
