Reply to Re: School shooting in Connecticut
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"even if there were strict gun control laws, do you think criminals and gangs would obey the laws?"
The point is that guns are much more accessible and more people have them when gun laws are looser. When they're stricter no one's saying that criminals can't get hold of guns if they don't want to, of course some thug with a life of crime who has a load of contacts can get hold of an illegal gun without too much trouble, but if some local nutter decides he wants to rampage through a school he can't just grab his mother's arsenal and start firing.
Your average criminal will think twice before attempting to get hold of a gun too if he knows he can go to jail just for possessing it.
It's also to do with attitude. Guns are treated lightly in America - in Switzerland for example everyone in military service keeps an assault rifle at home and they have really low gun crime.
"How else are the normal people going to protect themselves and keep the gov't from becoming too powerful?"
I hope you're joking
Things are in a sorry state if the government can't change gun laws because they're scared of the guns.
The point is that guns are much more accessible and more people have them when gun laws are looser. When they're stricter no one's saying that criminals can't get hold of guns if they don't want to, of course some thug with a life of crime who has a load of contacts can get hold of an illegal gun without too much trouble, but if some local nutter decides he wants to rampage through a school he can't just grab his mother's arsenal and start firing.
Your average criminal will think twice before attempting to get hold of a gun too if he knows he can go to jail just for possessing it.
It's also to do with attitude. Guns are treated lightly in America - in Switzerland for example everyone in military service keeps an assault rifle at home and they have really low gun crime.
"How else are the normal people going to protect themselves and keep the gov't from becoming too powerful?"
I hope you're joking
Things are in a sorry state if the government can't change gun laws because they're scared of the guns.
