Assorted\nprohibitionists have of late become more strident in their demands that certain\nfirearms be banned, and their owners declared felons and imprisoned if they\nfailed to turn theirs in. Some of the\nmost radical have suggested that such a ban, and such punishment, be applied to\nall firearms and their owners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, let\u2019s\nlook at that. According to the\nlibertarian think tank Cato Institute, \u201cAt\nany given time, the United States holds almost two million people in prison for\nfelony convictions. Often overlooked, however, are more than 11 million people\nwho cycle in and out of American jails every year for misdemeanor offenses.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is no secret that our\ncorrectional facilities in this country are already way overburdened, to the\npoint that hardcore criminals are sometimes released earlier than they should\nbe. There are at LEAST a hundred million\ngun owners. So, those who would\nstigmatize and indeed imprison that much of the population would be overloading\nthe corrections system to the tune of something like fifty times its capacity,\nwith all the new inmates being people so law-abiding that they were allowed to\nown deadly weapons until the Draconian ban passed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some of those\nprohibitionists have even polluted the Twitterverse with blood lust, suggesting\nsmugly that after a hundred thousand or so gun owners resisted and were shot\ndown by police, everyone else would want to turn their weapons over willingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n