Bill O’Reilly, the news commentator who regularly spouts
anti-gun control rhetoric, states on page 212 of his book “Killing Kennedy”;
which I reviewed here on Tuesday; that Texas, in 1963, with no gun control laws,
was the leading state for murders, with 72% of those murders occurring by
gunshot.
It is now 2013, 40 years later, and guess what? Texas is
still the most lenient state in regards to gun control; and Murder by Firearms
there has almost doubled since 1963. But yet, as recently as January 16th of
this year, Mr. O’Reilly still maintains that gun control laws will “not stop
crazy people from committing murder”, even as he advocates for a mandatory 10
year Federal sentence for any gun crime; from killing your spouse, to robbing a
convenience store.
At the same time he also feels that gun control laws; in
which he claims to not believe; should be left up to the individual states.
This, would of course, result in virtually no local gun control laws, leaving
the prosecution of gun related crimes to the Federal Government which Mr. O’Reilly
already feels is too big. It also seriously makes me wonder which side of the
debate he is really on.
This patchwork, and asinine approach; pitting the States
against the Federal government; will yield no other result than to fill the
already overcrowded Federal Prisons, thus placing more people under government
control than ever before. And, remember, this idea comes from a man who
purports to be against “big government.”
This is just one more example of why political
commentators should not be writing serious books about history. It only serves
to further display their already overworked misunderstanding of history, as well
as calling into question just what their real agenda is.
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