Is Anyone Else Surprised...
Very one sided and agenda driven, yes...... :wink:
Forum Discussion
Panam... yes education is the answer... you should take statistics. Saying that guns make people safer is like saying the lottery is an important tool for empowering parents to help fund their children's education. It pays off sometimes, but your odds are much better for committing suicide or killing someone in a domestic dispute than you are to defend yourself.
But more to your point, education is not the issue. That is the buzzword for people who don't want to think about the problem. People who kill themselves with guns didn't do so because of a failure to grasp the concept of safety, nor did the criminals that stole guns out of your home.
And here is a lesson for you. Guns are illegal in Mexico, the reason they have more gun violence, is because it is very profitable for us to cart guns down there, and they have a government with insufficient resources to deter the profitability of crime. Lax gun laws anywhere in the US mean that people can get guns everywhere in the US because we have freedom of movement. The reason CA has more crime than TX is a combination of socioeconomic, population distribution, and demographic factors (all of which correlate more strongly with gun violence than the strength of gun legislation). If you are interested in knowing WHY gun laws are tighter in high crime areas, it is because we are such a gun happy culture, that only in the face of soaring gun violence can we muster the testicular fortitude to pass real gun restrictions... They are a RESPONSE to high crime, not a cause of it. Ultimately they fail because the restrictiveness of gun laws within the continental United States is only as good as the loosest loophole in the loosest state (or on the internet).
If you want to disagree against the weight of the evidence, that's fine. But quit pretending we have tried tight gun laws... In the United States they have never been tried; that is either disingenuous or moronic.
But more to your point, education is not the issue. That is the buzzword for people who don't want to think about the problem. People who kill themselves with guns didn't do so because of a failure to grasp the concept of safety, nor did the criminals that stole guns out of your home.
And here is a lesson for you. Guns are illegal in Mexico, the reason they have more gun violence, is because it is very profitable for us to cart guns down there, and they have a government with insufficient resources to deter the profitability of crime. Lax gun laws anywhere in the US mean that people can get guns everywhere in the US because we have freedom of movement. The reason CA has more crime than TX is a combination of socioeconomic, population distribution, and demographic factors (all of which correlate more strongly with gun violence than the strength of gun legislation). If you are interested in knowing WHY gun laws are tighter in high crime areas, it is because we are such a gun happy culture, that only in the face of soaring gun violence can we muster the testicular fortitude to pass real gun restrictions... They are a RESPONSE to high crime, not a cause of it. Ultimately they fail because the restrictiveness of gun laws within the continental United States is only as good as the loosest loophole in the loosest state (or on the internet).
If you want to disagree against the weight of the evidence, that's fine. But quit pretending we have tried tight gun laws... In the United States they have never been tried; that is either disingenuous or moronic.
