Not "Getting-It" 101

"POLITICIANS, government officials and editorial boards have no business using the recent spate of shootings of police officers as grounds for their anti-gun position. They have no right to call for tougher gun laws "for the sake of those officers." Not unless they talk to them first and find out how they feel about the issue.

Police chiefs should also spend more time with their own troops before they join the chorus. Of course, that might mean going against the media who've decided they know more about fighting crime than the cops do.

More gun laws will never be part of the solution until the laws already on the books are enforced with vigor. Unless violators are held accountable and punished to the max, they will continue to violate the law, the old ones and the new ones. What evidence is there to make the anti-gun lobby think differently?

Cops know better than anyone just how poorly the criminal justice system is performing today. They see it every time they risk their lives to take down an armed thug who is back on the street before the ink dries on his arrest paperwork. They keep arresting the same people over and over again, and watch as judges treat them with kid gloves.

Let's try enforcing the current laws, sentence gun-toters to full prison sentences - and make prisons a place they won't ever want to go back to."

Joseph Fox, Chief Inspector (Ret.)

Philadelphia Police Department

Well pal, ya see there's where you might want to have a look at this thing they've been calling the CONSTITUTION. Failing that, precisely WHICH existing gun law are you in favor of or is it all of them? The D.C. law? New Jersey's? How about NYC? Chicago? Or LA, perhaps?

MANY of the "existing gun laws", Chief Inspector, are outright illegal invasions of our rights, but then again this is about par for the course when dealing with law enforcement now isn't it.

You swore an oath, too.

For shame. Betcha you tell everyone how pro-gun you are, too.

Thanks to The War on Guns.