Should Guns Be The Centre of The Gun Control Debate?
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What do I suggest we do with our present guns? Leave them! Gun crime will still be present but taking away all guns will result in more illegal guns. Leave the legal guns, because the crime will sort itself out over time. You could say "But aren't you immorally wasting the lives of people who die from gun crime" to which I ask you if you want me to predict the future of each crime? Would you kill 2 people if 20 lived in the future? This is a similar situation, and I couldn't even predict the remaining crimes to occur so you couldn't hold me reprehensible for leaving the remaining guns with which crime is committed. A crime is committed. A misused gun is removed. Less guns used illegally when the guns are more difficult to acquire and so forth. With time, the gun crimes will progressively die down. I hope.
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Where will the illegal guns come from? Right now, many of the armed criminals are using guns that are only illegal to the user. They have been stolen from people who owned them legally, or smuggled in - which is a separate crime - or found by the criminal in the home of the victim, who had it legally.TigerNinja wrote: ↑April 9th, 2018, 4:47 pm Gun crime will still be present but taking away all guns will result in more illegal guns
How do think this happens? By what mechanism? Over what period of time?Leave the legal guns, because the crime will sort itself out over time.
I could ask that. Or I could ask: What about the children who accidentally shoot themselves, one another or their parents with legal guns? What about clumsy or frightened adults who shoot themselves or friends by accident? What about the angry spouses who shoot in the heat of the moment and regret it the rest of their lives? What about the cost to health-care systems of treating all the injuries? What about the jumpy police officers who shoot at the very suspicion of a gun?You could say "But aren't you immorally wasting the lives of people who die from gun crime"
You don't need to. The statistics are available to anyone.to which I ask you if you want me to predict the future of each crime?
No, it really isn't. Gun control advocates don't recommend the death penalty for gun ownership. All they propose is banning assault rifles, and not classifying weapons of mass destruction as recreational sport equipment. I can readily predict that if that were done, fewer people and other animals would be killed and injured.Would you kill 2 people if 20 lived in the future? This is a similar situation,
Only if the perpetrator and his weapon are apprehended. In fact, many weapons are used repeatedly, or sold or passed on to other criminals.A crime is committed. A misused gun is removed.
How do they become more difficult to acquire if you don't outlaw them?Less guns used illegally when the guns are more difficult to acquire and so forth.
In fact, if the government doesn't crack down on import, manufacture, sales and licensing of firearms, they will become ever more common. They're durable , too, so the old ones will still be in circulation as new ones keep coming in.
Hope is an inefficient preventive measure. You might as well pray.With time, the gun crimes will progressively die down. I hope.
There is no reason at all to believe that crime or violence will automatically decrease in the foreseeable future.
With paranoia rising, plus more strident hate-factions in public life, economic disparity, unemployment and dwindling opportunity, coupled with American-style popular entertainment (not the British television is shy about depicting violence!), that bang-bang problem-solving culture will only spread.
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