Where the Right is Wrong: Gun Control
I will begin by quoting from a person who cannot be mistaken as a 2 nd Amendment-hating, pinko- communist by the conservative movement: Ayn Rand. After a lecture she gave at the Ford Hall Forum in 1971, she engaged in a “Question and Answer” period in which she was asked about gun control, to which she gave the following response: “I do not know enough about it to have an opinion, except to say that it’s not of primary importance. Forbidding guns or registering them is not going to stop criminals from having them; nor is it a great threat to the private, noncriminal citizen if he has to register the fact that he has a gun. It’s not an important issue, unless you’re ready to begin a private uprising right now, which isn’t very practical.” After another lecture at the Forum in 1973, she was again asked about gun control and provided the following response: “It’s a complex, technical issue in the philosophy of law. Handguns are instruments for killing peop...