Citizen having guns = meanings violence
Got a source? One or two oddball rampages don't cut it. Why? Because of one fact: More than 160 criminals are killed during the commission of a serious felony every year by citizens possessing legally purchased weapons.
I'm going to point to one statistic very few people look at: Prior criminal records. Contrary to popular belief, most victims are not innocents. A super majority of victims are convicted felons, and in the inner cities (where most gun murders occur), this number gets even higher. The murderers? Over 90% of murderers have prior arrest records for felonies. Do you know what this means? In America, a violent felony arrest, and in most states a domestic violence arrest, makes it entirely illegal for that person to own or carry a firearm. So in more than 90% of cases, there is a 100% guarantee that the weapon used was already illegally obtained.
Guns aren't evil, it's the people that are. Of the people who commit weapons with firearms, most can't even legally own them. So tell me: What would making guns illegal
in America do? Nothing, that's what. Well, except for spike the gun crime rate.
In Denmark it illegal to have guns, and gangs/drugs related things are very little if not at all.
I live in Houston, Texas. It's what's called a drug hub. Much of America's illegal drugs pass through the very city I live in, and the drug crimes and gang related violence are through the roof. I've had friends who have lost family members to that most vicious of trades, and have known several people personally who have been tortured or shot over it. This is just in the city I live in. In places like El Paso, Nogales, Los Angeles, and Albuquerque, the violence we suffer in Houston is almost nothing. I've lived my entire life in a border state, Arizona and Texas, and the violence affects everyone. Whether it's as simple as just being afraid to go some places, to having family members, and indeed ourselves, murdered for just a few hundred dollars.
And guess what? Almost none of those guns (in any at all) are legally possessed. Of the people I know that have concealed carry licenses, all of them have stopped at least one crime in the past six months against their person. In several of these cases, it was a violent act of aggression against them, or in attempt to seize their property.
So don't tell me that this doesn't happen in a country you've never been to, just because it doesn't happen in some Scandinavian paradise. Every day, people are murdered over the most petty of things. Every day, people are robbed. Guns are the great equalizer, and just as a criminal can use his illegally purchased and possessed weapon to kill an innocent, an innocent can just as easily use his legally purchased and possessed weapon to kill a criminal. There is very little overlap. Law-abiding citizens use lawful weapons, and criminals use illegal weapons. That's how it is.
Citizens having guns = ability for a small kid killing it own family and hes classmate.
Do you have any clue how uncommon that is? Apparently not, if you're using it as some stereotypical example.
you dont see random person having them around legally.
Tannurite. I know a guy with ten pounds of the stuff, legally possessed.
Last time I checked USA got a security that is immune to bombs threats.
Timmothy McVeigh killed more than 160 people in Oklahoma City in 1995. Bombs are great at killing people, and there is nowhere that is safe from them.
