One of the major fallacies of anti-rights bigots when it comes to guns is that gun owners care nothing about crime. I hear it all the time that somehow, me valuing my rights equates to wanting criminals to have guns. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

My point, and I would think where most of us gunnies come from, is that if you are waiting until a sale of a tool to prevent a criminal from doing mischief, you've not only missed the boat, but that boat has sunk off the coast as it were.

The problem is with the criminals themselves and not the tools at their disposal. Unfortunately, the Brady Campaign, the VPC, and various other anti-gun organizations have effectively peddled the mind set that guns are the problem and instead of doing what is needed to curb crime, thousands upon thousands of people die while the true issue is ignored. It is akin to raking the leaves and thinking that will save a diseased tree.

No, the problem is the criminal. Drug abuse, broken families, Hollywood's and the Entertainment Industry's glorifying of violence and the thug culture, socialism... the list of what causes people to turn to a life of crime would fill up several libraries. At the end of the day, however, it still comes down to an individual making a choice to do a crime.

Laws do not stop crime. Laws only provide a framework of what is 'acceptable' to punish people for, even though that list has grown beyond comprehension and we're all criminals for one thing or another.

What is folly is to push for more laws when you cannot enforce the ones on the books as they are and then to add injury to insult, not force the real criminals to serve their time.

Case in point -

Two men meet at a bar. Both are inebriated, words are exchanged. Man #1 hops on his bike and wants to go home. Man #2 follows Man #1 and runs him over with his van.

This wasn't Man #2's first murder

After the two-day trial, the jury convicted Taylor of second-degree murder.

Taylor had been convicted of the same charge once before.

In 2001, he was released from prison after serving 12 years of a 40-year sentence for stabbing a 60-year-old Marion County man. Taylor was trying to steal the man's car.

What was Taylor doing out on the street? What good are laws and sentencing if they can be wiped clean simply because someone in jail, who wants nothing more than to get out, simply tells a parole board he's better now and will behave?

I bet you won't see the Josh Sugarmann's or Paul Helmke's of the world calling for car control. No, they don't care about John Michael Meek because he wasn't killed with a particular tool. And if they did blame the car, they'd be rightly laughed at. But when they blame another object, all of a sudden people's brains stop working and move their heads up and down in agreement.

No, our crime problem is because those who commit crimes move freely among us. How many people commit murder as their first crime? I read it time and time again about someone having a rap sheet measured in pages committing some new crime which they serve very little time.

Mr. Taylor barely server a quarter of his sentence, and was let back into society where he killed again. And the gun control bigots think guns are the problem?

I don't get it.