The term "human trafficking" conjures up a lot of unpleasant images. Sometimes, it's coyotes smuggling illegal immigrants across the southern border. Other times, it's organized efforts that kidnap young girls and sell them to other criminal organizations for either domestic prostitution or foreign export. And yes, sometimes those young girls are kidnapped elsewhere and smuggled into the US for prostitution.
On every level, it's heinous. Even the coyotes who are smuggling people who want to be smuggled are vicious SOBs who have killed plenty over the years.
Human trafficking is one of the worst things imaginable.
And yet, despite all the gun laws on the books, people who engage in it can get plenty of guns, based on what happened in Michigan recently.
On Tuesday, detectives with the Southwest Enforcement Team and troopers with the Michigan State Police Paw Paw Post carried out a search warrant on Hayne Road near County Road 652 in Porter Township, according to a release from MSP.
“The warrant stemmed from a human trafficking and cocaine distribution investigation,” the release says.
There, investigators say they seized the 55 guns, plus cocaine and prescription pills. The cocaine was being distributed in the Lawton area, MSP said.
The report does state that none of those trafficked appeared to be minors, which makes me feel at least a little bit better about that aspect.
The fact that cocaine dealers are engaging in human trafficking doesn't actually surprise me. See, it seems that once people decide to live outside of the law, it doesn't take much for them to start looking at more and more depraved behavior.
As for the guns, it looks like more than half were handguns. Of the long guns, they ranged from what looked more like hunting rifles, to shotguns of various types, to AR-style rifles. There also appeared to be a suppressor.
I don't see how human trafficking cocaine distributors could have gotten a suppressor, though. They're illegal, donchaknow?
Here's the thing, though. If these people, whoever they are--no one was arrested, unfortunately--can get cocaine and humans to traffic, then how is gun control going to keep them from getting whatever they want?
I mean, suppressors are NFA items, and yet, there's one on the table with the result of the police's haul. I can't get one right now without jumping through a whole lot of hoops, yet they got one. I'm willing to bet its unregistered, too. If it is registered, it's not to them. It's a stolen suppressor if it was traditionally manufactured for sale in the United States.
But they got one.
I bet these folks, whoever they are, have access to more if they want them and have the cash, too.
If we can't stop the trafficking of drugs and people, though, how are we going to stop gun trafficking? The simple answer is that we can't.
What we can do, though, is make sure that law-abiding people have the means to protect themselves from these predators. We can stop pretending that gun control actually impacts these vile pieces of filth and start protecting the rights of law-abiding citizens instead.
Then, when these monsters come, we can deal with them.
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