As Promised...Guns: What say YoU?

But Do they ReallY?
Should we start with the obligatory review of the Second Amendment..or just dispense with that?
ok a snippet.."..the people shall have the right to keep and bear arms.."

Ok I hear you already..Aren't guns dangerous?..Well in the wrong hands, cars, knives and toaster ovens are dangerous too. Criminals use guns to murder innocents but they also use cars as getaways and terrorists have even been known to use planes to fly into buildings to harm civilians.

You know where I'm going with this don't you?
Perhaps if we focus more on the criminal instead of his "weapon of choice", we would get somewhere. Perhaps if criminals who used guns to commit violence were to actually remain incarcerated, we would get somewhere.

Ok for the stats:
John Lott

86 million people own over 200 million guns in the U.S., but only around 30,000 are involved in deaths each year.That is 1&1/2 percent. So why the gun control laws?

Washington D.C. banned handguns in the 1970's and by the 1990's their homicide rate had tripled.
Do you really think a criminal who decided to commit murder is going to hesitate breaking the 'gun control' law?

Of course another one of the concerns is the safety of our children. Last time I checked,the obligation to protect children in their own homes remains the responsibility of their parents. Sadly, children die in fires,car accidents,even by drowning in the family bathtub. But since when do we legislate based on reckless, inattentive parents?

Gun control laws leave us defenseless against criminals.
Every single year nearly 80,000 civilians use guns to defend themselves against violent crime.
Why does the media never report those incidents?
And why, when women, as a last resort against abusive boyfriends or husbands,-use guns for self defense (oftentimes after a life of abuse and horror)..they are treated like the criminal not the victim?

The Second Amendment confers the right of 'people- of individual members of American society - to arm themselves.

Who can make the claim that we have not the right to defend our very own lives?

If someone has an opposing point of view..please I invite you to politely express it to me.:)

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