So you're all for stricter gun laws?
Here's my take on it.
Here is my honest take on it.
All you have to do is look at the crimes that are being committed with firearms in cities like Boston, New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. They have some of the strictest firearms laws in the country, and yet they also have some of the highest crime rates in the country. Figure it out.
In the 1920s a ban on Tommy Guns was proposed. It did not reduce the crime rate. Criminals were able to gain possession of these assault-type weapons. People that choose to do harm will find other ways if they do not have a firearm. The founders of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights wrote the Second Amendment to protect civil liberties.
Due to the United States, China, and Russia selling millions of firearms to countries involved in civil wars, there is an extensive black market that will never go away. There is an estimated 500,000 fully automatic AK47s on the black market at any given time. The average cost of one of these rifles in Honduras
is $400 USD. Guns have surpassed illicit drugs as an export from Colombia. Thinking that banning law abiding citizens from owning guns while
leaving our borders open to cartels and terrorist cells is absolutely ludicrous.
Criminals will always have guns and other weapons. Politicians are clueless to real life, they have bodyguards and other security measures. Criminals have always had weapons, illegal weapons including EVERY form of gun. Politicians would, if allowed, go door to door confiscating legal law abiding citizens guns, but notice they would never go door to door looking for criminals and their illegal weapons. Politicians and Hollywood are hypocritical liars. The Second Amendment was made to protect America from what government is doing now. The Constitution and Bill of Rights are very clear, and politicians are in violation of their oaths, they are basically traitors. Having guns is not a privilege, it is a God given right as an American.
Plain and simple, it's a tool, just like a knife or a baseball bat etc. Stop blaming guns for the actions of stupid people. If the government seizes the public's guns we have no way of fighting back when this government turns to tyranny. Open your eyes, and get Obama out of power. It doesn't end there; arrest the bankers who run this country and give the republic back to the people for which many Americans fought and died. This is America, not Great Britain or China. Open your eyes before it's to late. Crime happens and will continue to happen regardless of laws put into place. I love this country, but I don't care for the government, especially the leaders of it. This isn't your country to make these decisions, and to Obama all I can say is good luck!
If you illegalize guns might of well ban cars as well. It's the same thing. Drunk driver gets in a car and kills a family, the car nor the alcohol is responsible. The person driving the car is responsible, he didn't have to get in the car to kill them. The car didn't kill him nor did the alcohol kill him if he wouldn't of drove it he wouldn't of killed them simple as that. A gun's trigger doesn't go off on it's own, the person with the gun's finger pulls the trigger.
Population has nothing to do with it. It's the way the laws are set up, up there. There's more people in NYC than Chicago and there's more people in LA than Chicago. But yet Chicago out of all of those has the highest body count. That's cuz Chicago has the strictest gun laws. If those cities didn't have strict gun laws like they do I bet crime wouldn't be as high. It puts citizens in danger. Gangs breaking into houses with guns, the people who live there don't have guns so they can't protect themselves instead the gangs shoot them up cuz the people know what they were doing.
A normal citizen with a gun isn't a problem but criminals with them are. What I mean by criminals are mobs, cartels, mafia's, gangs, etc. They have access to any gun in the industry where we don't. All we got are pistols, rifles, and shotguns. They got fully automatic assault rifles but illegally. They kill people in those cities cuz they know they're helpless and can't fight back. Go to Kansas City bro, that's where I used to live. There's a lot of gangs but those mother****ers know not to do shoot ups in some area's cuz the gun laws aren't strict. The ghetto is where the crime is down there. In Chicago, there's nowhere safe cuz gangs are everywhere. They're there cuz they're the only one with guns and cops don't even wanna mess with them. I wouldn't **** with the Latin Kings either and most of them are illegal.
I live in Chicago and own a gun but that doesn't mean I'm a criminal. I have it for my protection. I have not yet pull it out on someone or threaten to aim it at someone. I have my gun with me at all times, you just never know.
tl;dr. Gun's don't kill people, if illegalized only criminals will have guns. The crime would not go down, people don't realize criminals get access to guns very easily. Criminals don't get them at gun stores. They get them from smugglers.
Believe me, I know what's going on.