By John Stossel:

It’s all too predictable. A day after a gunman killed six people and wounded 18 others at Northern Illinois University, The New York Times criticized the U.S. Interior Department for preparing to rethink its ban on guns in national parks.

The editorial board wants “the 51 senators who like the thought of guns in the parks — and everywhere else, it seems — to realize that the innocence of Americans is better protected by carefully controlling guns than it is by arming everyone to the teeth.” 

As usual, the Times editors seem unaware of how silly their argument is. To them, the choice is between “carefully controlling guns” and “arming everyone to the teeth.” But no one favors “arming everyone to the teeth” (whatever that means). Instead, gun advocates favor freedom, choice and self-responsibility. If someone wishes to be prepared to defend himself, he should be free to do so. No one has the right to deprive others of the means of effective self-defense, like a handgun.
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According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report, a record 829,625 Americans were arrested for violating marijuana laws last year.  Of those arrested, 89 percent of those were charged with simple pot possession — the highest annual total ever recorded and nearly three times the number of citizens busted 15 years ago. Despite protests from local law enforcement that they do not target marijuana users, marijuana arrests have increased every year for the past 16 years.

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