Better to own and be trained with a firearm for self-defense than be killed and have one’s iPhone provide ‘witness data’ after the fact.
Forth comment in the tread. Does not take long for someone to say if everyone had a gun no good guy would ever die of a gun shot. I wonder why they never publish the stories of the people killed with their own gun. Nothing but an extremely simplistic solution to an extremely complex situation.
Better to own and be trained with a firearm for self-defense than be killed and have one’s iPhone provide ‘witness data’ after the fact.
Or you could take firearms off everybody thereby reducing the risk all round.
Do you honestly believe you could take firearms away from everybody? How would you take them from the criminals who likely obtained the weapons from illicit, untraceable sources?
When police do not have to deal with domestic disputes, crimes of passion and dumb accidents that become murders or manslaughters because of the easy availability of firearms, then they have more time to disarm criminals. Also, when firearms become harder to obtain, criminals tend to restrict their use to fights with other criminals, making it much safer for normal, law abiding citizens. The facts are that in 2016 in the US there were an average of 4.62 homicides by firearm per 100,000 population, whereas in Australia, for example, there were 0.18. So you are 25 times more likely to be murdered by firearm in the US. BTW, in Australia there is a gun ownership rate of 13.7 weapons per 100 persons, which indicates that those that like to shoot (me included) can still own weapons (we just have to get a licence with background checks and do training first - same as if I want to drive a car).
Hey, don't be coming in here and citing your facts to prove your point. It scares the shit out of me that you might suggest taking my gun away. Hey, What was that noise I just heard.........
Better to own and be trained with a firearm for self-defense than be killed and have one’s iPhone provide ‘witness data’ after the fact.
Or you could take firearms off everybody thereby reducing the risk all round.
Do you honestly believe you could take firearms away from everybody? How would you take them from the criminals who likely obtained the weapons from illicit, untraceable sources?
You gradually remove the weapons over a period of time. Weapon amnesties work. Heavy penalties for possession of illegal weapons. With gun ownership both legal and illegal in the US at saturation point it would be a very long process.
US has the highest amount of guns per capita, unsurprisingly it also has the highest rate of gun deaths in developed nations. Singapore has among the strictest gun laws, it has the lowest rate of gun deaths. Coincidence?
Of course not. But "gun crime" is the most useless metric ever. If someone murders/robs/rapes you, do you really think it's worse of a crime if they use a gun vs a knife? Have a look at *violent* crime rates in areas with strict vs lax gun laws, and the trends when gun laws are tightened or loosened.
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Hey, don't be coming in here and citing your facts to prove your point. It scares the shit out of me that you might suggest taking my gun away. Hey, What was that noise I just heard.........