Why More Americans Want to Own Guns

[God of Mr. Hanky]

Does cops clocking people for no reason count as murder?
What about idiots that accidently clock family members?
Does that count as murder?
I think the point of putting regulations on guns is to minimize gun related deaths - not all homicides.
So saying since gun regulations don't bring down overall murder rates and hence should be nullified is kind of...meaningless dontya think? Since the whole point of gun regulations is to control gun related deaths..
There could be whole lots of reasons why the overall murder rates didnt go down even after banning guns..like an increase in mugging(gone bad) or gang activities(or increase in other criminal activities that led to murder)...but the point of gun regulations isnt about decreasing the overall murder rates is it?Its about decreasing gun related deaths and whether a decrease in gun related deaths have an impact on the overall murder rate is irrelevant dontya think?

As already pointed out by those more apprised of the facts than I, gun-related deaths are quite infinitesimal (that means approaching zero percent by an extremely narrow margin, just in case you don't understand big words) compared to gun-related deaths. Banning cars, hot objects, or anything which may fall on an unwary kid's head would work just as well in preventing accidents, although it would not even approach the effectiveness of gun locks and proper storage. Therefore, I'll get behind proper storage and gun locks, and we can leave it at that.


As demonstrated by British murder stats, gun-related homicides (which represent the overwhelming majority of gun-related deaths) are not caused by guns, but the motivation to kill - remove the gun, and the killing will happen anyway, one way or another.

I think the point of putting regulations on guns is to minimize gun related deaths - not all homicides.

Please move on, there's nothing to see here!