You Can Have My Guns When I Run Outta Bullets

Let's think of the most stereotypical image of a true Texan: big ol' hat, sweat stained shirt, shiny belt buckle that keeps a well worn in pair of Wranglers up, a dusty pair of snake skin boots, and a dark leather holster that carries his gun. C'mon, you ever see a John Wayne movie in Texas where he didn't look like that? If you stop at any gas station in this state, there is some shelf crammed full of little nick knacks with that man and little signs saying "You can have my guns when I run outta bullets". Texans are obsessed with guns, and anyone who says anything about it being a little much is just a wimpy yank.

So why on earth anyone is shocked about how violently Texans react to the possibility of a tighter gun control? The Associated Press's Will Weissert reports with The Austin American Statesman that Texas leaders take aim by creating a new bill that blocks any move by the Federal Government to tighten gun control.

   "All federal acts, laws, executive orders, agency orders, and rules or regulations of all kinds with the purpose, intent, or effect of confiscating any firearm, banning any firearm, limiting the size of a magazine for any firearm, imposing any limit on the ammunition that may be purchased for any firearm, taxing any firearm or ammunition therefore, or requiring the registration of any firearm or ammunition therefore, infringes upon Texan’s right to bear arms in direct violation of the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and therefore, any such law is not made in pursuance of the Constitution, is not authorized by the Constitution, and thus, is not the supreme law of the land, and consequently, is invalid in this State and shall be further considered null and void and of no effect in this State."

I'm going to just point out a few things. First off, our guns are already limited. You can't have more than three shells in your shotgun when hunting for dove (where you would load those shells is where Froggy was jammed in). Second, don't we already have to register our guns? Third, according to Mr.Webster, amendment means a change designed to correct or improve a written work. Meaning it can be changed again, if done properly. Just sayin. Fourth, didn't there used to be a ban on assault rifles from 1994-2004 anyways? Fifth, am I the only one that seems to remember that Federal Laws trump State Laws? Texans are pretty attached to their guns if they are ignorant enough to think this will work.

Now, President Obama himself has said that this whole campaign for restricting large magazines, assault rifles and creating background checks is due to the mass shooting recently in Connecticut. But I would have to agree with Governor Perry in that "no gun law could have saved those children". Criminals are criminals, if they want to go crazy and kill a bunch of people, they are going to do so, gun ban or not, with any weapon of their choosing because it isn't that hard to gain possession of contraband items. 

Besides, it is of my opinion that this country cannot effectively control guns. The truest gun control is to outlaw them completely, make a statement that all guns and ammo must be turned in. Therefore, anyone who has a gun is a criminal. Which, if you think about it isn't much different than today, the gun owners you're scared of are the ones pointing it at you during a robbery. But why would law abiding citizens who wish to protect themselves against the criminals want to turn in their guns? Police would still have to be armed in order to combat those criminals with guns, and there would be a death penalty for anyone in possession of a gun. None of this waiting on death row for thirty years, it would be straight up Judge Dredd style. If you have a gun, *bang*. End of story. Ok, maybe that's just a little crazy right? There is no way that this country would do that, nor would I necessarily agree with it anyways. Frankly, I live in the getto and would probably still keep my little pistol for defensive purposes. But something drastic is what it would take to create a tight enough reign in order to truly keep everyone 100% safe from gun violence.