The Pacific Northwest used to be fairly decent on guns. After all, you had a state with a significant percentage of its population living in rural areas, which tends to coincide with guns being important.

But in recent years, all of that has gone in the crapper.

Instead of respecting the right to keep and bear arms, transplants from the gun-controlled paradise of California have relocated due to things like crime where they were and have started demanding the exact same gun control policies that failed in the Golden State.

Among other things, of course.

But if gun control failed in California, that doesn't mean it would fail in, say, Oregon, right?

Well, yeah, it does.

Sixteen people are facing drug and weapons violations as part of a joint months-long operation between the Grants Pass Police Department and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

During the operation, the two agencies served several search warrants throughout southern Oregon. Additionally, officers seized roughly 20 pounds of meth, a quarter pound of heroin, 1 ounce of cocaine, 1,000 pounds of processed marijuana, nine guns, two vehicles, and over $100,000 in cash.

According to the Grants Pass Police Department, investigators discovered several alleged narcotics dealers were coordinating and trafficking large amounts of drugs in Jackson and Josephine counties. This led to obtaining arrest warrants for over a dozen individuals.

Astute readers--meaning anyone who can actually read--will note that guns are only a small part of what the arrests involved. The rest involved a large quantity of drugs, which are so regulated that it's ridiculous, with the possible exception of the marijuana, which is practically legal in many places.

If they can get drugs, why would anyone be surprised they could get guns? Sure, they could grow the marijuana and make the meth, but heroin and cocaine aren't exactly domestic products. Those come in from outside of the US, which means that same pipeline could bring guns in.

Also, if you look at the charges, you'll see a couple of cases of possession of a firearm by a felon. Now, felons can't lawfully buy firearms anywhere in the country, so how did they get guns if gun control works?

The short answer, of course, is that it doesn't. Drug laws don't stop people from getting drugs so it's foolish to think that gun laws stop people from getting guns.

What it does is stop the law-abiding population from getting these things. That might be enough for some, which is one thing for drugs. After all, it's not like someone's cocaine habit saves lives or anything.

But guns are used for self-defense far more often than anti-gunners want to acknowledge, which makes them quite different from a legal standpoint. It also means the arguments for banning them are stupid on the face of things.

Then again, this is Oregon, a state that considered a measure that would restrict firearms to fewer rounds than many revolvers held, so I can't say that I expect all that much better.

Unfortunately, this is what anti-gunners do. They destroy a place, then spread out to other states and communities, then demand the same laws that turned their own state into a rotting pile of fecal matter left to stew on a San Francisco sidewalk, only to repeat it as often as they can going forward.

That sounds more like a virus than a person, but it is what it is.

And it's up to us to refuse to give ground on guns because they'll leave chaos behind them while those who call those states home are left to pick up the pieces.