RE: Murder in Michigan
July 9, 2011 at 12:43 am
(This post was last modified: July 9, 2011 at 12:45 am by Cinjin.)
Truthfully, I think both sides do have some merit to their points. I don't think it's a winnable argument.
True, I think it would be dishonest to make the claim that shooting deaths would remain the same if gun ownership were banned. At the same time I think it would be fool hearty to condone the removal of yet another liberty our constitution allows us, or to believe that the decline in shooting fatalities would be anything more than fractional. There has got to be enough black market handguns in circulation by now to arm every citizen in the US three times over. Add to that - that thousands of Americans would rather claim that they lost their guns or had them stolen rather than relinquish them to the government.
A ban on the ownership of firearms could very well cause more headaches and unrest than we can imagine. The results of that ban would make criminals out of millions of regular people and only add to the already hemorrhaging black market of illegally owned weapons.
Anyone notice how well the war on drugs worked?? Oh that's right. It didn't.
There are still many people in the government that feel that the criminalization of marijuana in the 1920's was a huge mistake. We created a world wide market for would-be thieves and killers. Better regulation, tougher restrictions, tougher penalties ... this is our only viable option at this point.
True, I think it would be dishonest to make the claim that shooting deaths would remain the same if gun ownership were banned. At the same time I think it would be fool hearty to condone the removal of yet another liberty our constitution allows us, or to believe that the decline in shooting fatalities would be anything more than fractional. There has got to be enough black market handguns in circulation by now to arm every citizen in the US three times over. Add to that - that thousands of Americans would rather claim that they lost their guns or had them stolen rather than relinquish them to the government.
A ban on the ownership of firearms could very well cause more headaches and unrest than we can imagine. The results of that ban would make criminals out of millions of regular people and only add to the already hemorrhaging black market of illegally owned weapons.
Anyone notice how well the war on drugs worked?? Oh that's right. It didn't.
There are still many people in the government that feel that the criminalization of marijuana in the 1920's was a huge mistake. We created a world wide market for would-be thieves and killers. Better regulation, tougher restrictions, tougher penalties ... this is our only viable option at this point.
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