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\nDisarmament, national or personal, is not a moral stance, but the abandonment of morality.<\/p>\n
Gun controllers have had a field day with the inaction of the Uvalde cops, but it never occurs to them that\u2019s who they are, standing around, wringing their hands and waiting for someone to tell them what the plan is, so they don\u2019t have to make any difficult choices in the face of a crisis.<\/p>\n
Gun control is the moral idiocy of the irresponsible blaming those who have taken responsibility.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Moral Idiocy of Gun Control<\/a> I was chatting with a horrified Swedish visitor who described a visit to Nevada.<\/p>\n \u201cThere was this grandmother, an elderly lady, and she took out a gun from her purse,\u201d he told me, shaking his head.<\/p>\n We were having this conversation in a city which had racked up 77 shootings in just one month.<\/p>\n Few New Yorkers legally own guns. The NYPD has issued around 40,000 handgun permits in a city of over 8 million. That\u2019s around one handgun for every two-hundred New Yorkers.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t assume that the parts of the city with the most guns are the most dangerous.<\/p>\n The\u00a0vast majority<\/a>\u00a0of handgun permits are in Staten Island, which has the lowest crime rate in the city, as opposed to the Bronx, with the highest. Manhattan has few legal guns relative to its population while the white working class areas of Brooklyn have some of the most legal guns.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Daily News<\/em>, which interviewed a criminologist as part of its anti-gun crusade, found that he was “puzzled”. \u201cSome people see a mugging in the Bronx, and they want to get a gun on Staten Island,\u201d he argued. \u201cThat\u2019s not rational, but some people really want guns.\u201d<\/p>\n Perhaps one of the reasons that there are fewer muggings in Staten Island is that more of the folks there can prevent them. Muggers, like most predators, prefer victims who don\u2019t fight back.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Big city progressives find guns indefinably \u2018icky\u2019. It\u2019s not only foreigners who marvel at a country where guns, even \u2018big scary black ones\u2019, are available everywhere. The propaganda of Michael Moore\u2019s\u00a0\u201cBowling in Columbine\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and countless network news shows is that people who live surrounded by guns have created the conditions for mass shootings. And they have it coming.<\/p>\n But New Yorkers, like most big city dwellers, live surrounded by guns. These aren\u2019t the guns that ride on trucks or sit in sporting goods store displays. They\u2019re the guns flashed by a mugger under his heavy down winter coat, or shot by rival gang members exchanging fire in the 73rd precinct in Brooklyn which accounted for around 100 shootings in just one year alone.<\/p>\n And there are the guns worn more openly by the army of police officers, security guards, bodyguards, and others, many of whom live on Staten Island, who are hired to keep New Yorkers safe. Two years ago, Bond, an app that some have called ‘Uber for Bodyguards’ debuted, allowing New Yorkers to order their own security personnel. New Yorkers, who disdain guns, instead tap an app for bodyguards to escort them from their train stop to their office.<\/p>\n Most urbanites hate living in this kind of\u00a0 world, but they hate the alternative even more.<\/p>\n Gun control isn\u2019t policy, it\u2019s culture. And while the media often goes on about \u201cgun culture\u201d, there\u2019s little thought given to \u201cgun control culture\u201d for the same reason that fish rarely film documentaries on what it\u2019s like to have gills and swim underwater.<\/p>\n Gun control culture means paying men with guns between $50,000 to $85,000 a year in the hopes that they\u2019ll show up in under 10 minutes and do something useful when you call 911.<\/p>\n That strategy didn\u2019t work very well in Uvalde. It doesn\u2019t work all that well most of the time.<\/p>\n Before Uvalde, in the recent Buffalo mass shooting, a 911 operator hung up on a store employee calling for help. The cops arrived in 5 minutes: in time to talk the shooter out of killing himself in front of the store so that taxpayers can pay for his trial and a 50-year prison term.<\/p>\n And that\u2019s what a fantastic response time looks like. But by then, 10 people were dead.<\/p>\n Gun control culture pathologically hates guns, but also hates the men it hires to wield them. Urban lefties threw an anti-police tantrum that was so successful that their cities are frantically trying to hire more police officers to keep up with the resulting crime wave on their streets.<\/p>\n Police defunding is deader than the\u00a0thousands of additional murder victims<\/a>\u00a0in the Year of BLM.<\/p>\n Gun control is a fantasy that somehow making guns as illegal in the rest of the country as they are in New York will put a stop to all the violence so that urban and suburban elites won\u2019t have\u00a0 to choose between being victims or paying the armed men they disapprove of to protect them.<\/p>\n Eliminating guns isn\u2019t actually on the table.<\/p>\n This is a choice between an empowered public of gun owners and an endless running battle between cops and thugs in a society where only criminals and governments have guns.<\/p>\n A nationwide New York or Chicago.<\/p>\n Most Americans don\u2019t want to live in this kind of world. Neither does anyone else. That\u2019s why the wealthy hipsters who poured into New York City after Giuliani cleaned it up are leaving. Those who can afford it, go to the suburbs or to wealthy enclaves in other parts of the city. While crime hasn\u2019t entirely depopulated the city, it has put a stop to gentrification. A slow motion white flight is happening all over again even though its participants are too ashamed to admit it.<\/p>\n The sharp division between gun culture and gun control culture is the border of an affected distancing from life\u2019s realities. Gun controllers aren\u2019t necessarily physical cowards, but they are moral cowards.<\/p>\n The same sorts of people who think guns are \u2018icky\u2019 also don\u2019t want to know where their meat comes from or to see the soldiers who come back from the wars. These are things that they pay other people to do because it preserves their illusions about the world and about themselves.<\/p>\n America is becoming a nation split between those hard workers who take responsibility for dealing with life\u2019s realities and the managerial elites who only issue meaningless orders.<\/p>\n Faced with shootings, managerial elites apply rule-based abstractions to messy realities that they are incapable of grappling with. The Left is always good for easy solutions that take away agency from individuals and invest it in a central authority in order to solve the unsolvable problems of human nature. And the managerial elites are always suckers for the myth that getting everyone to follow the rules in line with some grand theory will solve everything.<\/p>\n The people who, as the champion of managerial elites, once claimed, \u201ccling bitterly\u201d to their guns, understand that life is messy and that there\u2019s no grand fix, only a series of choices.<\/p>\n Gun ownership is an act of personal responsibility. By buying and owning a firearm, a man is saying that he also intends to take ownership of his personal safety and his choices. That doesn\u2019t always end happily, but there\u2019s far more moral self-awareness in that choice than there is in urban elites who hate guns paying the gun owners they despise to keep them safe.<\/p>\n The one thing we absolutely own in this world are our choices.<\/p>\n Gun control isn\u2019t about stopping gun violence, but disavowing moral responsibility for preventing it, passing the buck to the cops, to society, and to some force outside our control. Gun control rallies are the virtue signaling of moral cowards seeking to blame someone else for horrors that they cannot cope with and that they do not intend to take any personal action to prevent.<\/p>\n Disarmament, national or personal, is not a moral stance, but the abandonment of morality.<\/p>\n Gun controllers have had a field day with the inaction of the Uvalde cops, but it never occurs to them that\u2019s who they are, standing around, wringing their hands and waiting for someone to tell them what the plan is, so they don\u2019t have to make any difficult choices in the face of a crisis.<\/p>\n Gun control is the moral idiocy of the irresponsible blaming those who have taken responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BLUF Disarmament, national or personal, is not a moral stance, but the abandonment of morality. 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\nIs it more moral to own a gun or to pay someone else to do it for you?<\/em><\/p>\n