Brady Bunch: Criminalize Body Armor

There are no background checks, no federal regulations unless you are a violent offender—and even then you can buy them at gun shows or online..."- Daniel Vice, senior attorney at the Brady Center To Prevent Gun Violence.

Why do you need it if you're not going to commit a crime? - New York State Assemblyman David Koon, the sponsor of legislation to restrict the sale of body armor.

The headline reads Why Criminals Are Buying Body Armor. It's a simple answer: to increase their chances of survival in an armed confrontation with law enforcement or the other predators they interact with daily. It's called self preservation. A normal human trait. Non criminals, or what law enforcement call civilians, buy them and wear them for a similar reason. To increase their chances of survival in an armed confrontation with the criminal predators that prey on them. That prey on us. That, I might add, is also one of the reasons for the increase in firearms sales nationwide; a means of self defense. Another is that people rightfully fear Obama will enact gun control, but I digress. Guns and body armor are tools we can buy to defend ourselves. The worthless gits at the Brady Campaign know this and try, through their cutouts in Congress, to criminalize its ownership because they won't be satisfied until we're all helpless fucking sheep and they'll lie to twist public opinion and demonize gun owners until they get what they want.