I want any rational person, responding based on logic, not emotion, to explain convincingly to me how gun control measures that are comprised of new restrictions and or prohibitions, given the number of guns present already in the USA, will disarm criminals.
I believe that if the culture of violence from whence the gun violence comes is NOT addressed, further restriction and more prohibition will ONLY or MOSTLY affect law abiders, and will result in making STILL armed, lawless, violent criminals bolder as their odds of being confronted in kind decrease.
I am not at all discounting these sensationalized "mass killings", but put in perspective will ALL intentionally committed violent gun crime, they aren't even the tip of the iceberg. As I've read about the history of the US west, I've learned that there was similar lawlessness and violence as we see depicted in movies. In places like Dodge City, Tombstone, and Deadwood it became immortalized in our history. But, let there be no doubt, wild west violence was real. While no angels by any stretch, it took equally violent and aggressive men like Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, etc., to confront and subdue the violent, criminal element.
We are NOT going to mollycoddle and "nice" our way out of this mess we have in 2022. Not in 1,000,000 years we won't. And I get that for 90% or more of you, meeting violence with greater violence seems unconscionable and wrong. Well, I'll tell you what. Stupidity like community policing, defunding the police, social justice sentencing guidelines allowing violent criminals to go free in the interest of gaining brownie points with racially obsessed leftists, simply WILL NOT WORK. The criminals who shoot up Chicago and Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Los Angeles, et al, aren't suddenly going to be nice because some moron of a leftist DA, judge, or jury thinks the violence is excusable because the perpetrator had challenging beginnings and a piss poor upbringing, or was pushed into it due to lack of privilege. Crime is fucking crime. Get the race out of it, from all sides, please.
Yeah, we need to defend schools and hospitals. Yeah, it's tragic that we are at a point where we need to do so. Without Wyatt Earps and Bat Mastersons policing our cities by knocking heads and arresting bad guys, and they ARE some very BAD guys, on a massive scale, and without citizens foregoing all the social and racially charged "la te da" rhetoric in favor of "It's about fucking time", this shit ain't even gonna end.
Oh, and while you're listening, how about screening the games, television, movies, and music that's indoctrinating your kids and grandkids to violence while you read this.
Sad but true Matty. Well said.
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