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It seems we have half our population who believe that majority rule should overrule minority rights. Our Founding Fathers were so much smarter than we are today. They created a system of self governance that didn't exist in their time. It was brilliant. Power Elites have been slowing dismantling it over generations. Remove one Liberty at a time and the People don't seem to notice. Franklin was correct. |
If the question is actually “What percentage of criminals legally buy a gun and commit a crime with it,” the percentage is extremely small. The last data suggests that a fraction of one percent of those who commit a gun related crime will legally purchase a gun and then commit a crime with it. Most of those crimes are “crimes of domestic violence,” essentially crimes of passion, and the gun happened to be in the house. If no gun were present, some other weapon, knives, clubs, fists or something else, would have been used instead. While the overwhelming majority of professional criminals will use stolen “street guns” that are cheap but very definitely illegal.
However, if the question is “What percentage of crimes are committed with legally purchased guns” the answer is about six percent of murders – and very few other crimes. Amateurs buy guns at a dealers; which involves extensive paperwork, identification, FBI background checks, and so on. Pros buy guns on the street, where the only requirement is money – or other valuta. The shooting in Uvalde was appalling. No one wants to see this repeated, but obviously the facts speak for themselves. The only solution is to harden soft targets like schools. I didn’t like the airport changes either, but I did get used to the TSA. |
"Your dead kids don’t trump my constitutional rights" ............. .Joe the Plumber
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Thou shalt not do or say anything to might upset anybody....taking action to do what is right or correct is just shy of no longer permissible.....regardless the impact/results! The current wave of lawlessness and the drive to do away with the police being prime examples! |
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.........Basically, ALL of society has changed since someone could buy a GUN with no questions asked by mail order. Around 1981 all federal mental health institutes were closed. That certainly didn't HELP keep society stable and mass murders down. It's hard to compare one time period that was 60 some years from today, with today, just NOT possible. Gang violence and drug violence barely existed in the era of mail-order guns. In 1981, public schools did NOT have 30 kids in one classroom. Today, the overcrowding prevents almost all of the teachers from keeping order and encouraging learning and success in their students. Most school districts won't raise property taxes to hire enough teachers and staff. The US had a strong middle class around the 1950s. Today the middle class barely exists. .........There are MANY reasons why society has gotten MORE violent today. When you combine More violence with MORE AVAILABILITY OF guns, you get MORE mass murders. Society has changed and seems more WILLING to accept more Mass murders. I worry about this summer coming up! |
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Mass Murder without Guns | National Review Weapons That Are Most Commonly Used for Homicides |
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