The Apolitical Activist, Ch. 4

Guns don't kill people, people kill people.

Like Jared Lee Loughner, who killed six people in Tucson on January 8, 2011

using a 9mm Glock  semi-automatic pistol.

Loughner had a history of drug possession charges and had been suspended by his college for disruptive behavior.

Which only goes to show that

Guns don't kill people, people kill people

One of the victims who survived the assault in Tucson was Democratic Representative Gabrille Giffords.   Giffords  herself owns a Glock. “I have a Glock 9-millimeter, and I’m a pretty good shot,” she told the New York Times in 2010.

But that really didn't matter, because

Guns don't kill people, people kill people

The Glock Giffords owned could shoot 19 rounds without loading.  That could come in handy in the Arizona desert if you are attacked by not one, not several, but a platoon of Muslim extremists.  You don't want to let them get the upper hand because

Guns don't kill people, people kill people

The Glock Loughner used in the shooting used a 31 round magazine.  These magazines were illegal under the
Assault Weapons Ban law of 1994 which Congress let lapse in 2004, but whether the Ban existed or not, it would not have mattered because

Guns don't kill people, people kill people

The Glock became a favorite of drug gangs because of its light weight (its made from plastic), ease of operation, and  the fact that it is quick to shoot, and it can shoot a lot.  Tupac and Dr. Dre rapped about the Glock.   Tupac was killed with a 40-caliber Glock.  And if gangs have the Glock, it makes it an easy sell to law enforcement, who would be outgunned if they had to rely on the American made Smith and Wesson.  And if law enforcement has the Glock, it makes an easy sell to criminals, who would be outgunned if they had to rely on the American made Smith and Wesson.  But whether the chicken or the egg came first, it doesn't really matter because now Smith and Wesson has a plastic revolver competing with the Glock...and

Guns don't kill people, people kill people

Glock's marketing strategy has been reported as brilliant and shady.   From salesman entertaining law enforcement purchasers at a notorious strip club in Atlanta to offshore accounts to industrial espionage, but none of this matters because

When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.