Gun Control

In his Commonplace book, Thomas Jefferson quoted Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria.

"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms ... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes ... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."

Today we can hear debates that continue to degrade our liberties. There are some who would not stop until The United States of America was a prison. Much to their dismay, perhaps it will only be then that they realize that drugs, and homicide are even uncontrollable in prisons. If we cannot even prevent drugs and homicide under the strictest of monitored and restricted circumstances of prison, how can we hope to stop them in a free public?

We must examine our methods. A new approach is required. If you live in America, you must have heard the phrase: "Guns don't kill people, people kill people." It is true. It is our human condition that must change if we are to stop violent crime. I know of an organization that is changing the world one man at a time. You can check out The Mankind Project at their website: www.mkp.org.