Liberalism is a religion



Which is why it does not matter how many facts you stack up against it. The faithful will not budge. Take this from Michigan:



"Six years after new rules made it much easier to get a license to carry concealed weapons, the number of Michiganders legally packing heat has increased more than six-fold.
But dire predictions about increased violence and bloodshed have largely gone unfulfilled, according to law enforcement officials and, to the extent they can be measured, crime statistics."



Click the link and read the whole article. Violent crime has actually gone down with all those guns on the street. This, however, makes no difference:



"Other opponents remain convinced that it has contributed to an ongoing epidemic of firearms-related death and destruction.


Shikha Hamilton of Grosse Pointe, president of the Michigan chapter of the anti-gun group Million Moms March, said she believes overall gun violence (including suicide and accidental shootings) is up in Michigan since 2001. Many incidents involving CCW permit holders have not been widely reported, she said."



Would homegirl care to cite some sources? Why would the antics of CCW permit holders go unreported? This make no sense at all. What does make sense is to admit that violent crime, as a phenomenon is primarily the result of bad people doing bad things. these people will always be with us, as is evidenced in gun-free Scotland. Other contributers are poverty, drug abuse and dysfunctional families. Very low on the totem pole you will find legal access to firearms.



Shikha Hamilton of Grosse Pointe has found a trendy little socially conscious way to pass her idle hours. Good ffor her. If a bunch of upper-middle class housewives want to sip lattes and wish they lived in Europe, so be it. If her clique didn't carry the threat of restricting my American freedoms, I wouldn't even notice.



Kim du Toit weighed in on this as well.