05-13-2013, 03:26 PM
None of which can be linked to the increase in the numbers of legally owned handguns. Claiming that having more legally armed citizens decreases gun crime is at best spurious and at worst dangerously self delusional. Perps are MORE likely to carry guns if they think their intended victims are armed.
The problem in the US is not illegal firearms but legal ones in nearly every single gun massacre legally purchased firearms were used to commit them.
The fact plans to stop dangerous and disturbed people obtaining firearms was blocked just highlights how pathologically fixated some Americans are on the 2nd amendment.
“Out of my cold dead hands!” regardless of the human cost to innocent lives.
The problem in the US is not illegal firearms but legal ones in nearly every single gun massacre legally purchased firearms were used to commit them.
The fact plans to stop dangerous and disturbed people obtaining firearms was blocked just highlights how pathologically fixated some Americans are on the 2nd amendment.
“Out of my cold dead hands!” regardless of the human cost to innocent lives.
We need to punish the French, ignore the Germans and forgive the Russians - Condoleezza Rice.