Blue Force Gear Quote of the Day: Gun Rights Are an “Abysmal Failure”

“In the hands of civilians, they are not protection from crime. Unless you wear a uniform with a badge or a service patch on it, the gun you carry is more likely to kill you or someone you know or love than it is to kill anyone who threatens you or your loved ones . . .

“The ‘good guy with a gun’ who will protect us, rather than threaten us, is the man or woman who has been screened, trained, authorized and empowered by us to do the job. Anyone else, no matter how well-intentioned, is an amateur at best and a hazard to the rest of us at worst.

“The past 40 years in the United States has been a massive experiment in the theory that a highly armed citizenry will make us safer, and the experiment has been an abysmal failure.” – Todd Hubbard in The awesome, life-shattering power of guns [via seattletimes.com]