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Originally Posted by Bob Drake
Do you think it might also have something to do with the peculiar way in which we allow millions of virtually unregulated firearms to float around the nation, immediately available to those who would attack, injure, and kill?
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I think it has everything to do with the unregulated firearms, which are owned, traded, sold, bartered, and used by criminals.
Law abiding citizens are not causing crimes - See the inherent enigma with that?
For people to use that argument, "immediately available," assumes a lot about people in general. I have not lived a innocent life, and I don't know anyone I could just go pick up a gun from - unless I was already involved with those kinds of people - meaning the knowledge of how to get one and the necessity to use one become intertwined.
Unless you're planning on stealing. But then, if you're stealing that's a whole other problem.
And people have been attacking, injuring, and killing other people long before guns came out, even before the age of metal. If someone wants to attack, injure and kill someone they're going to, they're not going to let the absence of a gun impede that.
On that, criminals will always be criminals, no matter what you "allow" to be on the street, or in shops, and are always going to take what they want, through force. Guns are a tool, they will use that tool to achieve their objectives.
Why should citizens be disarmed and at a disadvantage because the government is trying to get guns out of the hands of the criminals? Take guns away from the citizens and you enable the criminals.
Most importantly though, disarm the citizens and the government has nothing to fear. Yes, I say that specifically. A government should be wary of it's people, the people should never fear their government.