You just don’t get it. You can’t remove guns in the US. Criminals will always have them. You may not like it, but that is a cold hard fact. That puts non-criminals at a distinct disadvantage.
Except Western Europe and Japan ban guns, and they have VERY LITTLE crime and VERY LITTLE gun violence. So Gun control doesn't work unless it's the UK, Japan, France, Italy, Germany, Canada,...
Also, whehter you realize it or not, having an armed populous is absolutely a deterrent to government tyranny. It is not a matter of whether the military can defeat citizens with superior weaponry, it is a numbers game. Those that put all their faith and trust in the government are like sheep to slaughter. In case you don’t know it, those are largely Democrats in this country. Weak, ignorant and gullible. Governments world-wide that want full control of the people would love nothing more than to have a populous full of US left-wing Democrats.
Guy, guns don't stop tyranny. Contrary to what you hear on RW Websites, guns were pretty prolific in Weimar Germany despite half-hearted efforts to control them. (That ironally, the Nazis later repealed). Not one German rushed out to stop the Nazis. The "Good Germans" never showed up.
The fact that you and at least 47% are willing to put Trump back into power shows that tryanny is easy to fall into.
That has nothing to do with guns. It has to do with the erosion of morality thanks to secular Democrats like yourself. Funny that years ago nobody worried about a kid having guns in their gun rack in their trucks at school. Gun are not the issue, people like you that support an immoral, answer to nobody, do it if it feels good society are the real problem. It also doesn’t help that you and your kind have groomed an entire generation to be void of personal responsibility and blame anybody but themselves for everything they do.
Guy, back in those days, not that many people had guns. In 1940, there were only about 40 million guns for 140 million people. (And yes, this was after some very sensible gun laws were passed in the 1920's after gang violence racked the cities with Prohibition). Today we have 400 million guns out there, more guns than we have people. More to the point, the gun industry has decided that marketing to the most unstable nuts out there was a good business strategy.
The Supreme Court has made it clear. We have the right to bear arms. Period, end of story. Leave it to a Democrat to remove rights of the people. Talk about self-destruction.
The Supreme Court made it clear that a woman has the right to abort her pregnancy until she doesn't.
The rest of us who aren't compensating for tiny penises have to live with security guards, metal detectors, active Shooter Drills, militarized police, all because of your weird little fetish.
Not a tenable position. Gun sellers can’t be responsible for somebody who loses it and uses the gun they bought 5 years ago to murder someone. That is ridiculous.
Except most mass shooting happen within weeks of the crazy person buying the gun. In fact, every time there's a mass shooting, I predict two things. 1) Everyone in his life knew he was nuts and 2) it was way too easy for him to get a gun.
Now, here's the thing. When I got a mortgage, I had to wait thirty days while they pretty much performed a financial colonoscopy on me. Forget that I had a perfect credit score and no debt, and had previously paid off two mortgages and two HE loans.
When I applied for a job, they did a thorough background check, made me piss in a cup, talked to my former employees and coworkers,
When I sponsored my wife for residency, We had to pay $4000 in processing fees and submit 200 pages of documentation proving it wasn't a green card wedding.
When I applied for an Illinois FOID card, I paid $11.00 and filled out a form swearing I wasn't a criminal or mentally ill. That was it.
One of these things, is not like the others.... three of these things are kind of the same.
We can be trusted to keep nuts like you from killing babies. Somebody has to stop you freaks from pushing your radical agenda. Believe it or not, everyone hasn’t been living in a vacuum in Chicago. Laws in 38 states will charge a murder with multiple homicides if they kill a pregnant woman. Illinois, being the wacko state it is, may not be one of them, but that just means they are in the minority. Sane people don’t support your state and cities nutty, extreme views.
Except we've already seen how these laws have been abused by going after women who have had miscarriages.
We also saw in Scott Peterson's case, the emotional charge of "killing a baby" will make people convict on the most flimsy evidence.