Oregon's Measure 114 is controversial, to say the least, and it turned the state into one of the more gun-controlled states in the nation pretty much overnight. Anti-Second Amendment groups applauded the law's passage and swore it would make the state safer.
Well, did it? Obviously, gun control doesn't actually work, but even if it did, it's clear it wouldn't have stopped this incident.
I mean, not just did the guy have a gun, which he used, but he also had an explosive device.
A Beaverton man was arrested after allegedly throwing an explosive device and firing multiple rounds at a Cornelius home early Thursday, Nov. 6, according to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies responded around 4:13 a.m. to reports of an explosion near the 300 block of North 10th Avenue. The caller told authorities an explosive had been thrown at their door, and upon inspection, found multiple bullet holes in the front of the home.
No injuries were reported, the sheriff’s office said.Investigators later identified the suspect as 37-year-old Samuel Lund, who they believe targeted someone he knew.
There was a bit of a standoff because police believed Lund might have other devices.
The report doesn't specify what kind of device it was, though, as he's charged with arson, among other crimes, I'm guessing it's a good, old Molotov cocktail.
Somehow, Measure 114 doesn't really stop those, does it?
I mean, it's a glass bottle, some fuel, a rag, and fire. It's as simple a device as one can make. You can just stick a rag in a liquor bottle, for crying out loud, and call it a day. This isn't high-level, Anarchist Cookbook or Improvised Explosive Devices Manual-level stuff here.
And it's evidence of what we keep saying over and over again, that if guns aren't available, people will just use something else to hurt people. You're never going to stop Molotov cocktails from being made, no matter what you do. These are classified as destructive devices under the NFA, and every school kid in the country probably knows how to make them.
You're never going to stop bad people from making those, especially as glass isn't going away as a container. There are just too many things that will react badly to plastic for that to be a realistic concern, and that's without getting into all the talk about microplastics.
The truth is that where there's a will to hurt someone, there's a way. It doesn't matter who you are or who they are. It doesn't matter what's legal and what isn't. If someone wants to hurt another person, there are plenty of methods for them to do it.
How many people in anti-gun states keep a baseball bat by the bed? Sure, it's not a great way to defend yourself from a burglar with a gun, but a club is an ancient method for ending someone's life just the same. All else being equal, I'd take a bat over my own two fists in a life-or-death struggle.
And that's all without ready to make destructive devices that might as well be sold as Molotov kits.
Oregon's extensive gun control laws are intrusive to an extreme, arbitrary to the point of capriciousness, and as we can see here, completely inadequate if they're meant to stop bad people from doing bad things.
Yeah, no one got hurt in this case, but how much of that was pure, dumb luck versus literally any other factor? It sure wasn't the law that kept them from having a body count. Luck, though, isn't a good defensive strategy when you live in a world with people who think violence is an answer to their pretty mundane problems with you.
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