WARREN D. GRANT: One more law won’t change things

Some demonic, sinister character takes some weapons and ammunition and kills scores of people, wounding many others and the gun-control freaks — yes, freaks — come out screaming. I cannot fathom the rational of another gun law unless the underlying issue is to eventually make America gun-free so that it will be easier to establish a communist regime. This is exactly where we are heading as we cannot sustain the Republic which was given to us.

How many crimes have there been reported in Albany this year? According to Areavibes.com, we’ve had 16 murders, 28 rapes, 204 robberies, 625 assaults, 873 violent crimes, 888 burglaries, 2,585 thefts, 147 vehicle thefts and 3,620 reported property crimes. That’s 8,986, and the year isn’t over. Two things come to mind — one, this “Good Life City” isn’t as good as some would like us to think it is; second, all the above is against the law.

Now how many people with an ounce of sense would think that one more law would stop all of this? Which brings me back to the liberal left-wing gun-control advocates that say there needs to be one more and that will prevent another Las Vegas tragedy or, if it had been in place, would have prevented the one that just happened.

We’ve got more laws than any police officer can memorize and I doubt that any lawyers know all of them. That’s the reason for extensive libraries in law offices. They don’t know them, but they know where to look them up. So, let’s make another gun law and require all citizens that wish to have a gun to rent a giant U-Haul truck and drive around with the library of what’s legal and illegal in the back. We could make a law that requires them to read all of the books before shooting someone.

That might just work. By the time the perp got through reading hundreds of laws, he might just forget what he was about to do. Maybe I need to pass this along to Mr. Davis and Mr. Lee and see if they can get it initiated.

WARREN D. GRANT

Albany