Alta said:
Laws don't prevent people from committing crimes but allows for consequences when a crime is committed and to hopefully deter some crimes from being committed. Murder is illegal but people still do it. I bet we would have more murders if it wasn't against the law though.
I never understand this line of reasoning from our side.
Deterrence does work in many cases, but not usually with gun laws. The reason? Because, as I stated, the criminal is going to use the gun in ANOTHER, more serious, crime so why would he be worried about breaking gun laws. If you're hell bent on killing someone, or you are so messed up that anything might set you off, what the hell do you care what it takes to get a weapon? What I don't understand is why you can't see this simple line of reasoning.
If murder wasn't illegal, perhaps we'd have more murders, but we'd also have more of one other thing: self defense killings. So that is, at best, a red herring.
The left, and other pro-gun control individuals, (usually) want strict gun laws but not strict other criminal laws in general. For example, they don't want strict drug laws, and they don't want these laws enforced where they exist. They want cops to stop policing, and oh, by the way, when cops do shoot someone, they don't blame the gun, they blame the cop because the cop is higher on the food chain of hate than the gun is (at least at that moment). Hell, the Obama so-called justice dept. didn't even want to prosecute those that tried to illegally purchase guns. Why? I don't know for sure, but my guess is that many of them were minority.
Add to all this the fact that gun control flat out DOES NOT WORK. We had Columbine during the so-called Assault Weapons ban, committed by 2 under age individuals who also had homemade explosives that, had they gone off, would have doubled or tripled the number killed. I don't even know how many state and federal laws those 2 broke before they stepped foot on campus that morning. Deterrence you say? Please.
I'm sorry, but any so-called conservative that goes along in ANY way with any gun restriction -- regardless of whether you call it common sense or not -- is pandering to the left and the gun control crowd. You are making it easier to them, sooner or later, to destroy the second amendment. What we need is LESS restrictions on guns, not more. We need more education. We need every kid in America trained on guns just like shop class when I was in junior high:
6th grade: gun education; blue guns, how to pick up and hold weapon, simulated aiming
7th grade: non firing model: working the action, aiming and simulated firing
8th grade: single shot range firing; 100% safety REQUIRED
We tell all US gun makers that they need to provide, free of charge, single shot .22 (or other rimfire) rifles to schools as well as non firing models for education purposes. It is amazing that in every other area of our life, people will say that education is the key to overcoming fear, but not with guns; fear is paramount. The left and the anti-gun crowd want everyone to remain fearful so they can reach their ultimate goal -- the elimination of civilian gun ownership.
And any so-called conservative that goes along with this in any way is pissing on the second amendment whether you mean to or not. I'm sorry, but it is absolutely true.