Safer Streets 2011: There's No Such Thing as Common Sense Reform of Gun Laws

"Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue ... presents a new harvest to those who watch the change and can trace its consequences; a harvest reared not by themselves but by the toils and cares of the great body of their fellow citizens. This is a state of things in which it may be said with some truth that laws are made for the few not for the many."
--James Madison
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"President Obama has spoken over the weekend in a call for reform of gun laws.

I concur with the President.

For years, I have called for the repeal of all gun laws. It is about time. Let us reason together. Just understand that our idea of reform -- 90 million adult gun owners -- is the repeal of gun laws, not more gun laws.

There is no such thing as a sensible gun law. In this country, long before President Obama, there never was a sensible gun law. There has always been force and abuse of due process, but no sensible gun law. The short essay is this: Our governments here have no legal authority to make any gun laws whatsoever. How is that possible"