Gun Control advocates claim they have no interest in a gun ban. "We just want some commonsense gun restrictions," they claim, but then when they get what they were asking for, they have more they want. It's an insidious march onward, and if we remotely gave ground, we know where we'd end up.
We see it in other countries all the time, but the president of Chile just gave up the whole gig.
See, while our crowd claims they don't want gun bans, the Chilean president explicitly says he does.
Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Wednesday gave his first TV speech, during which he announced a plan to ban gun ownership and tackle drug trafficking, among other relevant measures.
“Armed violence will not be tolerated,” said Boric, who will introduce legislative proposals to radically narrow the possession of guns, following various shooting massacres in the United States.
The President spoke of a “total ban on gun ownership” because “armed violence will not be tolerated in our country and that is why our Program 'Fewer Arms, More Security' proposes the radical limitation of legal access [to firearms].”
The head of state has asked Chile's Congress for “all the support to pass a law that will allow us to move towards a total ban on gun ownership and at the same time strengthen the institutional framework in charge of control.”
Of course, Boric fails to comprehend that if people are trafficking drugs, which are banned throughout the world, then they probably have the means to get guns even with a total gun ban in place.
Chile doesn't exactly make it easy to own a gun in the first place, with numerous gun control laws already in place. These would be the same gun control laws that the drug traffickers in question are already breaking.
Funny how that works, isn't it?
Now, Boric isn't new to beating this particular drum. He's been pushing for a gun ban since 2022.
However, the fact that he's an avowed socialist--describing himself with the oxymoronic label of "libertarian socialist"--there are probably more reasons he wants to disarm the general population than just because bad people do bad things.
But that might be my natural tendency to distrust anyone who describes themselves as socialist or communist.
Regardless, it's an idiotic move he's proposing, mostly because the people who represent a problem won't pay any attention to the law, thus putting the law-abiding folks of Chile in a position to be trampled on, much like what we see with the cartels in Mexico.
Yet the underlying point here isn't what happens in Chile, but what will happen here.
See, notice the argument is essentially the same as every gun control argument we see domestically. Every single time, we're told we need to curtail the right to keep and bear arms because of violent crime of some sort. Yet time and time again, we also see that the criminals aren't getting their firearms through legal means. They're getting them in ways that no law can actually prevent.
Just as they are in Chile and everywhere else you care to name.
Meanwhile, all of the laws they propose disarm the good, decent people who represent no threat at all to anyone except the criminals...and a would-be tyrant.
So yeah, I'm not a big fan of Boric and his arguments here, but I also know that our own homegrown gun grabbers will use the same arguments to the same ends. They'll keep going on and on until there's a total gun ban. Some are openly talking about repealing the Second Amendment entirely, which isn't going to happen, but more are willing to whittle away at our rights until it only barely looks like we have gun rights left.
No thank you.
