Anyone who seeks to or actually restricts gun ownership of law abiding citizens has blood on their hands. Demonizing guns also causes people to be afraid of them which further emboldens criminals. Guns are tools not animate entities. Children should be taught gun safety from an early age as well and then later taught how to handle and shoot them. A well armed and trained populace would preclude most of this so called ‘gun violence.’
I completely agree with most of what you have said here.
Agreed....PEOPLE are the problem....so we need measures in place that actually WORK that separate these PEOPLE from any "right" to possess deadly firepower.
The only question before us is WHAT are those measures going to be?
If the answer is simply "nothing." As in "there is nothing we can do" then the next logical step on the flow chart has to be this.....
If PEOPLE are the problem and there is absolutely no way to keep guns out of the wrong PEOPLE's hands....then they cannot be permitted for anyone.
We just throw our hands in the air and give up.
Admit we tried it....a constitutional experiment and it didn't work.
And we go forward from there.
I don't particularly like that scenario but hey, I'm a pragmatist and a realist.
As far as a "well armed populace" goes, I don't think that's very realistic.
All the people I know who own guns (including myself) are responsible and competent with them.
And yes, you are correct. I take comfort in knowing that these people are armed and I'd like to believe the world is a safer place because of it.
But we also live in a nation of complete, blithering idiots.
MILLIONS of them!
People I wouldn't even trust to take out my goddamed garbage!
People who probably shouldn't even be allowed to purchase gardening tools!
People who have difficulty negotiating 4 way stops in traffic.
Do I want these fools carrying around loaded guns in public.
HELL NO!
