The NRA had the nerve to point out that Clinton could halt most gun violence tomorrow simply by ordering his Justice Department to stop letting drug dealers and criminals off when they violate existing gun laws. The argument brought to my mind an interview I did last year with Kyle Bateman, president of Action Target, which manufactures targets primarily for law enforcement shooting ranges. Gun control laws, he tells me, are good for his business, because they increase the need for his product. We are making schools safe for the lawless by making sure that no principal or teacher is allowed to have a gun at school. That helps explain the recent rash of school shootings in an era of decreasing crime.
Guns are equalizers.
That is merely a fact of life that is irrefutable. Among nations, nuclear weapons serve the same purpose. They make nations hesitate to attack. Since America dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, no nation has overtly attacked our military directly. I might also add the United States does not bomb other nations who belong to the nuclear club.