Don't be silly. Hopefully the laws deter crime but in the event that they don't, it's so that we have recourse.
I just find it incredibly stupid to attack legal gun owners when they're not the problem. MORE gun laws is not the answer. I'd rather see action in other areas such as improving our mental health care "system" (which doesn't really even exist) and addressing social issues. I think it's a "people" problem, not a gun problem. Why are people turning to crime and violence? Can we help them? I'm sure we can. Creating more gun laws does not help these people with whatever struggles they are having.
I agree we shouldn't *just* focus on weapons. I just think that weapons are something else that would obviously reduce crime if there were less of them. Less instruments of crime = less crime, less instruments of death = less death. It is a people problem, but giving the people more powerful weapons is just going to multiply the impact. I'm not "blaming guns" for crime and I don't think anyone is - people who say pro-control people are doing that are just creating a straw man argument. What I am saying is that guns make those crimes worse. You can kill far more people with a gun than a knife. Guns don't cause crime, but they make crime much easier and much more destructive.
Anyway, once crime is reduced by those measures, what then? Then we don't even need guns to protect ourselves from crime, so we might as well get rid of them.
I'm not even necessarily attacking legal gun owners. Maybe law-makers need to think outside the box and generate a new type of law which minimizes the damage to the liberties of legal gun owners. People seem to hear the words "gun control" and think "blanket banning certain types of guns from everyone in society", when that just is not the necessarily case. Although, as I value life more than liberty (at least on a wider society level), I think if they can't generate such a law the liberties of legal gun owners are a necessary sacrifice (but as this is entirely hypothetical that is besides the point).
What is your opinion on gun control?
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Don't be silly. Hopefully the laws deter crime but in the event that they don't, it's so that we have recourse.
I just find it incredibly stupid to attack legal gun owners when they're not the problem. MORE gun laws is not the answer. I'd rather see action in other areas such as improving our mental health care "system" (which doesn't really even exist) and addressing social issues. I think it's a "people" problem, not a gun problem. Why are people turning to crime and violence? Can we help them? I'm sure we can. Creating more gun laws does not help these people with whatever struggles they are having.
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I agree we shouldn't *just* focus on weapons. I just think that weapons are something else that would obviously reduce crime if there were less of them. Less instruments of crime = less crime, less instruments of death = less death. It is a people problem, but giving the people more powerful weapons is just going to multiply the impact. I'm not "blaming guns" for crime and I don't think anyone is - people who say pro-control people are doing that are just creating a straw man argument. What I am saying is that guns make those crimes worse. You can kill far more people with a gun than a knife. Guns don't cause crime, but they make crime much easier and much more destructive.
Anyway, once crime is reduced by those measures, what then? Then we don't even need guns to protect ourselves from crime, so we might as well get rid of them.
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I'm not even necessarily attacking legal gun owners. Maybe law-makers need to think outside the box and generate a new type of law which minimizes the damage to the liberties of legal gun owners. People seem to hear the words "gun control" and think "blanket banning certain types of guns from everyone in society", when that just is not the necessarily case. Although, as I value life more than liberty (at least on a wider society level), I think if they can't generate such a law the liberties of legal gun owners are a necessary sacrifice (but as this is entirely hypothetical that is besides the point).