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Originally posted by JSDSKI
I'm not trying to take away your guns. I don't think there is an exact formulaic relationship of the number of guns to the number of homicide deaths. Your argument apparently assumes everyone with a gun wants to either kill someone or commit a crime with a gun. Gun control is just one way to reduce gun death and gun related crime. What is your solution?
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You don't want to "take away" my guns, but you have stated that you want to "regulate" them. What does that mean? Do you know how much regulation there already is? How much more do you want? At what point does "regulation" become an effective "ban"?
Those who want to ban or "regulate" guns are normally assuming that "everyone with a gun wants to either kill someone or commit a crime with a gun" -- consider the recent comments from the Violence Policy Center regarding FN's innovative Five-SeveN handgun; it represents a fantastic innovation in firearm and ammunition development; I love new technology, the Five-SeveN is a gun I want to own. But the VPC would tell you something like, "there is no other reason to own this gun than to kill police officers" -- what are they trying to say are the motivations of my hobby?
I still don't understand how you can conclude that
"Gun control is just one way to reduce gun death and gun related crime"?
Either you must expect that the criminal element is going to obediently follow gun laws, or you look upon your fellow citizens as "bad children that cannot be trusted with guns" and you expect that if "father-government" would just step-in and take away guns, all the "bad children" would start behaving nicely?
You want to know what my solution is to control crime and violence? I say let’s have every peace-loving, law-abiding citizen armed... and have every criminal so scared of being "blown away" that they decide it's safer to not commit crime.
I also see de-criminalization of drugs as a solution toward eliminating massive amounts of crime. But that's a whole new topic.