Pull up some statistics about Chicago, which has some of the strictest gun laws in the US. I here on the radio of people getting killed all the time due to gun violence.
So tell me again how outlawing guns prevents gun violence. I understand there are exceptions to the rules and not all places that ban guns have problems with shootings (Australia for example), but I would rather have the choice of owning a gun in case I ever need to stand up for my beliefs.
In full disclosure even though I believe in the right to have guns I own no guns.
We have plenty of shootings; the drug gangs and bikers have guns, and use them to kill each other.
We tend not to have random sprees though, probably because culturally we're not as desperate to be famous.
The guns are already out there on the street, Trying to enforce laws especially in an area heavily run by gangs is not going to produce desired results. I don't think the solution is to simply outlaw guns. I just think that a reduction in automatic/semi-automatic weaponry, a limit on how many guns and ammunition a person can own etc would do a lot of good. A simple supply demand function as an analogy, If bullets cost $1000 a piece because of the scarcity less people would be loading up on ammo. A government that is so heavily invested in military spending and its own weaponry is going to have a hard time convincing its people to give up arms, but there needs to be some dialogue on ways to stop these needless deaths.
Some great points. Not only is our military so heavily geared, but they're now giving surplus military equipment to police. I would say if the police are allowed to have/use than I am within my right to have something equally as powerful as them to protect myself and my family from corruption.
I don't like limits or reductions genrally as a law. They make poor laws and here's why. What makes a weapon a semi-automatic/automatic weapon by definition? Where do you draw that line and who decides. Same goes with ammunition, how much is too much? What's too much to me who owns no guns maybe different from recreational shooters or hunters.
Look at what happened when they tried to ban alcohol. I don't understand why people think banning guns will be different.