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Why shouldn't every gun purchased in the US require a background check. Private sells included.
That is common sense.
Eight years of conservatives lying about guns being ābannedā and āconfiscated.ā
It never happened.
Another Democratic president and conservatives are lying again about guns being ābannedā and āconfiscatedā ā and again it wonāt happen.
This is an exaggeration -- the real number is 9.
Fact remains:Original post stated that only 8 people in USA want to ban all guns. My reply was that the number is not so small -- I am #9.
Please document that m14 shooter.This is not an exaggeration:
For every gun used to commit murder, at least 10 are used for self-defense.
Bullshit600 million guns in private hands......over 21.25 million Americans can carry guns legally in public for self defense.........
American use those legal guns 1.2 million times a year to stop rapes, stabbings, beatings, robberies, and murders, as well as also stopping mass public shootings when they are allowed to have their legal guns with them...
Gun deaths...the truth....
2019...
Gun murder...10,235
Gun accidents...486
Of the gun murder deaths....over 70-80% of the victims are not regular Americans....they are criminals...murdered by other criminals in primarily democrat party controlled cities....where the democrat party judges, prosecutors and politicians have released them over and over again no matter how many times they are arrested for felony, illegal gun possession and violent crimes with guns...that's on you and your political party...not normal gun owners.
Gun suicides... 23,491...
Americans use their legal guns 1.1 million times a year to stop brutal rapes, robberies, beatings, knifings, murders......according to the Centers for Disease Control, and 1.5 million times according to the Department of Justice.
Lives saved....based on research? By law abiding gun owners using guns to stop criminals?
Case Closed: Kleck Is Still Correct
that makes for at least 176,000 lives savedā
Money saved from people not being beaten, raped, murdered, robbed?.......
So figuring that the average DGU saves one half of a personās lifeāas āgun violenceā predominantly affects younger demographicsāthat gives us $3.465 million per half life.
Putting this all together, we find that the monetary benefit of guns (by way of DGUs) is roughly $1.02 trillion per year. Thatās trillion. With a āTā.
I was going to go on and calculate the costs of incarceration ($50K/year) saved by people killing 1527 criminals annually, and then look at the lifetime cost to society of an average criminal (something in excess of $1 million). But all of that would be a drop in the bucket compared to the $1,000,000,000,000 ($1T) annual benefit of gun ownership.
When compared to the (inflation adjusted from 2002) $127.5 billion ācostā of gun violence calculated by by our Ludwig-Cook buddies, guns save a little more than eight times what they ācost.ā
Which, I might add, is completely irrelevant since āthe freedom to own and carry the weapon of your choice is a natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and Constitutional right ā subject neither to the democratic process nor to arguments grounded in social utility.ā
So even taking Motherboardās own total and multiplying it by 100, the benefits to society of civilian gun ownership dwarf the associated costs.
Annual Defensive Gun Use Savings Dwarf Study's "Gun Violence" Costs - The Truth About Guns
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Why not register all guns. We register all cars, all houses.No, it isnt. The only way to verify a background check on a private sale is to register all guns......that is the real goal of universal background checks.....a trojan horse to get gun registration.....
According to rabidly anti-gun Violence Prevention Center, at least 100,000 firearms are used each year in self-defense.Please document that m14 shooter.
Because it is imposisble to soundly demonstrate the necessity for, and efficacy of, doing so.Why not register all guns
Simple:Why shouldn't every gun purchased in the US require a background check.
This does not sound realistic.Lives saved from crime = a large portion of the 1.2 million times a year guns are used by law abiding Americans to stop rapes, roberries, murders, beatings and stabbings.......according to the CDC....
One estimate puts the number of lives saved at about 175,000 a year.....
Can you tell which numbers are bigger?
To the willfully ignorant, sure.This does not sound realistic.
Bullshit
There are plenty of reasons to have a gun for protection but in truth private ownership, more often, is used to intimidate, shootings in domestic arguments, suicide etc.. You are more likely to be harmed by a gun, if you own a gun.
Gun Threats and Self-Defense Gun Use
1-3. Guns are not used millions of times each year in self-defense We use epidemiological theory to explain why the āfalse positiveā problem for rare events can lead to large overestimates of the iā¦
Give us an example of common sense gun regulations that will only work on criminals and not interfere with law abiding citizens to own firearms.
Why not register all guns. We register all cars, all houses.
You are a paranoid coward that thinks then government will come for your guns. IDIOT
Because gun registration has always led to gun confiscation.......
Paranoid?
Tell that to the Germans, the French, the British, the Canadians, New Yorkers, Californians, Australians, New Zealanders, Russians............gun registration first, then confiscation...
The problem with gun control is that the gun control advocates only want to enact laws which adversely affect law abiding citizens.
We need to aggressively target the criminals. The punishments for gun crimes need to be so severe and inhuman that no one would want to even chance getting caught committing a crime while in the possession of a firearm...
This does not sound realistic.
