Guns have changed, shouldn’t our gun control laws?


“Guns have changed…shouldn’t our gun laws?”


Here’s how you can be smarter than that:

If we changed the gun laws so that only muzzle loaders were legal (or guns with 10 round magazines, or rifles without a pistol grip, or without a foregrip, or a semi-auto action, or whatever other arbitrary characteristic anti-gunners propose next), what you would actually be seeing—if this video was based in reality—is this:

A man walks through that door with a semi-automatic rifle and a 20 or 30 round magazine.

The people behind the desks are the characters holding the muzzle loader, or being shot without resistance. Why? Because they are the law abiding, rank-and-file Americans, and the anti-gun groups and politicians passed laws that made them feel like they were doing something good, but failed to address the problem of violence in any meaningful way.

Either way, the bad guy wins, and the good guys lose. The commercial was clever, but it ignores reality as is so often the case in the discussion on gun violence in our country.