OPINION:
In the wake of the tragic murders of good Christian people in a Charleston church last month, there has been some talk of more gun control. But as we have seen since the 1960s, gun-control laws simply do not work because murderers don’t obey laws.
Our Founders feared a large and powerful central government nearly as much as they feared a foreign enemy. This is the primary reason for the Second Amendment. It is not a trivial matter of hunting or target shooting.
The only partially effective gun law would be a total registration, and then the confiscation of guns. I call this partially effective because the bad guys would never participate in this. And the good guys would fight the government as if their lives and freedom depended on it. After this deed was done, we would have militias in the hills and bad guys robbing the homes of now-defenseless people. In other words, anarchy would run rampant. Is this where we want to go?
That said, the man who murdered these good people in Charleston represents a microscopic fraction of gun owners. His act is an anomaly, not a trend. To enact more useless gun laws, which only affect the law-abiding, would be totally useless and counterproductive.
FRED C. SEBLY
Mount Airy, Md.
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