Over the last few months the anti-gun movement, with help from the establishment media, has started a new attack campaign with their usual flair for the dramatic, and lack of concern about the facts. Every article on gun-control during that time period mentioned that America has loosened regulations on buying, carrying and owning guns over the last three decades.

It is as if media outlets from Foxnews to Politico.com to Philly.com to The Washington Times all got the phrase from the same place.

We’ve seen this play before, from the use of the term “Saturday night special” or “assault weapon,” the anti-gun movement gets the media to define a type of gun or type of law in the most provocative way possible. Usually, the anti-gun talking points are welcomed by the establishment media because anything provocative increases television ratings and circulation rates of newspapers.

You can also bet that by defining our current gun laws as “loose,” the anti-gun leadership is setting up the debate so they can claim to want to “tighten” regulation, not enforce an outright ban on private ownership or repeal concealed carry laws.

Instead, they will be repackaging the old argument for reasonable gun control with a new less threatening catch phrase.

Many Americans will believe that “tightening” gun laws won’t infringe on the right to bear arms but instead will help keep criminals, or the mentally ill from getting their hands on a gun. Pro-gun advocates immediately see through the tired tactics, but the establishment media knows that the gun issue is a ratings bonanza, so they will quietly look the other way when our adversaries repackage old arguments.

After all, in the last few months, the “loose” gun laws in Texas and Florida were supposedly responsible for high profile spree killings. In both cases, the accused shooter allegedly had mental health issues and used the “loose” regulations to bypass the process designed to keep certain demographic groups from buying a gun.

Transferring responsibility to the gun laws instead of keeping it squarely where it belongs – with the shooter – is another long used tactic of the anti-gun movement.

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The terrorist attack committed by Major Nidal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood, Texas brought the lack of security at such a large military base directly into homes across America. Leaders of the pro-gun movement, and many soldiers, weren’t quite as shocked because they knew most military bases are considered “gun-free zones, “due to concealed carry being banned.

Whether Hasan’s attack on American soldiers was sponsored by one of the bigger terrorist organizations is irrelevant since it gave terrorists a road map to complete similar attacks in the future. You can bet our enemies learned valuable lessons from his ability to kill so many of our best and brightest in such a short period of time. In one fell swoop, he taught terrorists where Americans are essentially defenseless.

His lesson included an easy way for our enemies to pick a spot to strike again – simply follow the “no gun” signs.

To think that terrorist organizations won’t learn from Hasan’s success is to live in a dream world. But then the anti-gun community in America has always lived in a dream world. Their adherence to a policy of disarmament for law-abiding citizens is nothing short of crazy, because we know criminals won’t turn in their guns.

The anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall was celebrated throughout the world earlier this year, which brought our victory in the Cold War back to national prominence. Imagine if we decided to win the Cold War by unilaterally dismantling all of our nuclear weapons without any expectation the Soviet Union would do the same and you have a blueprint for how the anti-gun movement wants to win the war on crime.

That’s not a far-fetched analogy since the anti-gun leadership clearly thinks having honest Americans turn in their guns will somehow force common criminals to turn their guns in as well. After all, if you believe the anti-gun movement’s logic, criminals are really honest people who become bewitched by an evil object that uses guile and cunning to overcome their otherwise law-abiding sensibilities. Full Story »