Thank God I don't work or live in Illinois, but if I did I would certainly be on the phone with them. But now with more shootings across the country taking place, it just seems as though someone is making these shootings happen just so the public can get enraged enough, and to push their state governments hard enough, to finally pass the gun laws Obama wants.
Is anyone else seeing this as a possibly other than me?
I don't think there is any nefarious entity "creating" these shootings for a political agenda. It's simply the huge number of new guns on the scene. Gun purchases aren't accurately kept, so saying anything meaningful is difficult, but since Obama took office, there were 70 million background checks. Does that translate proportionately into total gun purchases? Not sure.
If it does, let's say 1/2 of those checks were made for existing owners. So, that means 35,000,000 new owners. If we assume 1% of the population are unstable wackos on meds, then there are 350,000 new guns out there in the hands of questionable people. Is this number enough to explain a rise in misuse?
Please feel free to adjust my figures for any other factors, I'd be interested in a discussion.