According to this AP report, someone shot a child and a couple of workers at a day-care center in Michigan. I find this hard to believe, because in Michigan it is illegal to be in possession of a firearm on the premesis of a day-care center. Surely this couldn't have happened!
Even law-abiding citizens who have jumped through the hoops to obtain a Michigan Concealed Pistol License are legally prohibited from carrying a firearm into a day-care center. So how in the world could this crime have happened?
As your kids would say, "Well, DUH!" Of course criminals don't obey the law; only law-abiding people obey the law. Which means that the real-world effect of the Michigan "gun-control" laws is to control law-abiding gun owners, not criminals with guns. Which means that the state legislature has disarmed law-abiding folks in, for example, day-care centers, so that they are at the mercy of any armed criminal that walks through the door. Never mind the fact that Article 1, Section 6 of the Michigan Constitution clearly states, "Every person has a right to keep and bear arms for the defense of himself and the state."
It sounds to me like the good people of Michigan need to rethink their voting choices.
Posted by jon at September 29, 2004 12:21 AM