DRAWING A BEAD

Free Ice Cream for Everyone

Richard A. Pearson
Executive Director, ISRA

Free ice cream for everyone is the attitude some legislators in Springfield have about solving the problems of crime and everyday complications of life. If everyone had free ice cream everyone and everything would be all right and perfect. Their thoughts go like this: “The reason he became a mass murderer is that ‘we’ did not supply everyone with enough ice cream as a child.” Of course if we did supply everyone with free ice cream, nothing would get better. In fact, they would probably become worse. Of course these same people would then proclaim that it really wasn’t ice cream that would do the trick – it was really free pizza for everyone.

The fact is, of course, these people are constantly proposing solutions in desperate search of a problem. They do not like the idea of personal responsibility and they don’t have the cojones for holding bad guys’ feet to the fire. It is easier to pick on the law abiding citizen.

They avoid the obvious solutions of arming citizens to protect them from attacks by criminals in places like Chicago or Washington D.C. They pretend that massacres like Rwanda never happened. These people live in a fairyland.

Here are some inconvenient facts they ignore:

• 88% of the murders are previously convicted criminals.
   

• 98% of all crimes are premeditated.
   

• A violent crime occurs every 22 seconds.
   

• Half of all Americans will be robbed or burglarized in their lifetime.
   

• One of every 32 people in the United States is in prison, on parole, or on probation.
   

• One out of every 20 illegal aliens is in prison.

It is no longer a question that you or your family will come into contact with a violent criminal – you will. The best way to defend yourself or your family is with a firearm. Don’t let the “free ice cream for everyone” people take your firearms away. Ice cream won’t protect you – not even butter pecan or rocky road.
 

Until next time,
Richard A. Pearson
Executive Director, ISRA
 

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