Stop Blaming Guns, Stop Blaming Lawful Gun Owners ...

A child has been shot and killed in Brooklyn, NY. The bullets weren't meant for the child. The bullets were meant for his father. The anti-gun mass media wants to blame the problem on guns. That is disingenuous gun ban zealot propaganda. Guns did not cause the gang violence that initiated the actions that caused this child's death. Lawful gun owners should not be punished for the criminal actions of drug gang felons who illegally obtain firearms, illegally possess firearms, and illegally use those firearms, to commit violent felonious crimes like murder.

The Brooklyn, NY based felon drug dealer enemies of convicted felon Anthony Hennis, tried to commit a drive by shooting assassination of their enemy Hennis Sunday night. The felon drug dealers were in illegal possession of illegally obtained firearms, tools they believed would help them accomplish their murderous criminal deed. These criminals illegally possessed their guns despite the fact that New York has enacted laws that all but disarm law abiding citizen gun owners. The felonious drug dealer shooters who committed this crime are not law abiding citizen gun owners.

Convicted felon Anthony Hennis had just picked up his 16 month old baby son Antiq Hennis from his mother. Anthony Hennis does not live with his son's mother, and probably isn't married to her. Convicted felon drug dealer Anthony Hennis put his baby son Antiq Hennis into a stroller and began walking down the street, taking his son to visit his grandmother. Anthony Hennis has been convicted of various felonies, including convictions for: drugs, car theft, assault, and for being a felon illegally possessing a firearm.

As Anthony Hennis walked down the street with his son in the stroller in front of him, shots rang out from gun fire that may have come from a passing motor vehicle. The violent convicted felons who attempted to murder adult convicted felon Anthony Hennis missed. Instead one of the bullets struck and killed his 16 month old son. Four .45 caliber handgun shells were recovered from the scene by police crime scene investigators. If the bullets had hit their intended target, his father Anthony Hennis, this story would never have even made the news or newspapers. But because his child was killed instead, his child is being used and abused as a martyr in anti-gun America's - War Against Guns. Anthony Hennis apparently knows who the shooter is, but he is not cooperating with police. Witnesses in the neighborhood apparently believe they know who fire the shots, but police do not have anyone in custody.

Guns were not and are not the problem that caused this crime. There are more legally owned, and lawfully used, guns in America than there are adult Americans. The gun used to kill 16 month old Antiq Hennis was illegally obtained by convicted felon drug dealers who are prohibited by federal and state statutes from possessing firearms of any kind. The gun used to commit this crime was not likely obtained lawfully, was not likely owned legally, and was certainly not in the hands of a law abiding citizen. What this killing makes clear is that no law of any kind, even an unconstitutional complete ban of all firearms in America, would stop such ganged up felon drug dealers from illegally obtaining either guns, or from obtaining the illegal drugs they traffic, which give them the motivation to possess and use illegally obtained guns in the first place. This story wouldn't be all over the anti-gun biased national news if the victim's father had been killed and not his child son. 

For the gun ban zealot mass media to blame guns for this sort of crime is like trying to blame Boeing and Airbus for the downing of the Word Trade Center on 9/11/2001. Boeing is no more to blame for that tragedy than guns are to blame for the death of this child. Islamic terrorists and the evil ideology they follow are to blame for the World Trade Center tragedy. Murderous gangs and their violent drug trafficking are the cause of this child's death, not the illegally obtained gun they used as a tool to commit their gang power and control inspired murder. 

New York already has, arguably, the most restrictive, the most unconstitutional, anti-gun, gun ban laws in America. New York's latest unconstitutional gun ban laws limit law abiding citizens to have a maximum of seven (7) rounds in the ammunition magazine of any gun they possess. The same law also limits the total capacity of ammunition magazines to ten rounds, although fully loading such a magazine is currently deemed a criminal act under the latest, unconstitutional, 2013, New York gun ban law. Felonious drug dealers don't care about such laws or limits, just as they don't care that the crime of murder they committed in this instance exists, or about the crime of illegal drug trafficking that was this murder's antecedent. In addition, New York, has all but banned AR15 modern sports rifles, a type of gun that drug gangs rarely, if ever, use to commit their gang assassinations. In fact, rifles of any kind, traditional or modern, are only used in 300 of the 11,000 U.S. gun murders committed each year in recent years. Unconstitutional New York gun law also requires all gun owners to obtain "may issue" gun ownership licenses that corrupt New York government usually issues only to privileged and/or influential people. Convicted felon drug dealers do not even try to obtain such New York gun licenses (an act that by itself would get them prosecuted), or directly purchase guns from federally licensed gun retailers (which would also get them prosecuted). All that New York's absurd gun laws do is infringe upon the constitutional rights of law abiding citizens. Such laws don't stop or deter drug gangs. Such unconstitutional gun laws do not stop or deter crazy people, like Adam Lanza or James Holmes, from committing gun violence either. New York's latest gun ban statutes are clear and convincing evidence that the unconstitutional disarmament of law abiding citizens will not reduce or prevent criminal gun violence in America.

It is no more productive to disarm law abiding citizens because of the crimes of a few criminals that it would be to shut down Boeing and Airbus to prevent the possibility of another attack with airplanes upon tall buildings. Neither the planes in the latter instance, nor the guns in the former instance are the problem. It is of paramount importance that Americans not be distracted by incidents like this, which are being abused as an immoral and unjust excuse to infringe upon the constitutional rights of law abiding individual citizens to keep and bear arms.