Posted on 06/07/2018 10:36:29 AM PDT by Simon Green
The Times Editorial Board tells us it’s obvious that easy access to guns results in more suicides and homicides, and there are 36,000 firearm deaths each year nationally.
If we want to reduce that number, we have to make firearms less accessible. But look at the size of the problem: In our state alone, more than one-quarter of households own firearms. That’s a lot of guns already in circulation.
How do you reduce the number of guns that people already possess? With a buy-back program? But if you pay someone, say, $250 for an old revolver, what’s to prevent that person from putting the money toward a new semiautomatic handgun?
The only way of making the millions of guns already in the possession of millions of Americans less accessible is with the “C” word: confiscation.
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Two Bumper Stickers I remember seeing as a Child:
The only good Commie is a dead Commie.
First Registration, then Confiscation.
The related one was “Register Communists, Not Guns”.
“The blue states cited for their lower suicide rates have legislators with a strong enough voter support base to resist the NRA, resulting in fewer gun deaths per capita than the national average. When will the rest of the country wake up?—Al Barrett, Santa Monica”
Blue states?? LOLOLOL!! Retard! You wake up or move to Chicago. It’ll be your safe space.
And again, how will the government control illegal guns flooding across our borders into the hands of criminals?
I LIKE IT!
Well, there were a lot of good commies last century.
Hopefully we’ll save this century’s commies from themselves.
Since they know that won’t fly they’re opting for true and tried incrementalism.
Then they will go after knives as they have done in the UK. Knives kill more anyway.
In Japan, guns are strictly controlled yet they have a higher suicide rate than the U.S. And suicide rates track more to demographics than gun ownership.
The big problem is that the semiauto high cap / high tech latest wiz-bang rambo gun cat is out of the bag. I am not a big fan of these type weapon’s I like old traditional wood and steel firearms and fine grade hunting rifles and shotguns and old west guns. But now everyone owns one or more of these black plastic and stamped metal guns so what can we do?? You will never get them out of the hands of the criminal element or the noncriminal element for that matter. Not to mention if the liberals succeed in banning them what is next? the very guns I like. Then hunting will be the next target and on and on. It is how Liberals roll. This country just better get used to the occasional nut case shooting up the local school, 7-11, post office, ect. We need to make sure that people have the ability to defend themselves and targets are hardened when these shooting do occur to minimize the casualties.
They DO NOT want to go there! That is why they use children to raise the next generations of idiots.
How effective can it be when the confiscator is bleeding out on the ground wondering what went wrong?
Hmm...yes, the only effective resort of gun control enthusiasts is to send armed men to their neighbors’ doors and steal their property because they’re so violent. The wonder is that this actually makes sense to some people.
It’s like with trying. And we can make the highest speed limit for miles an hour and that would be very few if any deaths. We could be forced to use driverless cars and I guess there would be less deaths. Whats Freedom worth?
(Plus your odds of finding and taking ALL of my current arms is very very low. Soooo many boating accidents...)
Bobbin,
The 2nd amendment doesn’t care what you think.
-Hugh
The gun grabbers like to harp on 93 deaths per day due to gun violence. 2/3rds of those are suicides but lets ignore that fact for now.
There are about 6,800 DEFENSIVE gun uses every day that stops acts of violence and crime. These are assaults, rapes, attempted murder, kidnapings, etc
As a citizen, I am not willing to trade 6,800 defensive gun uses to eliminate 93 deaths.
They love to pretend that there will be fewer deaths... and yet, in most cases, after confiscation there comes mass democide (murder by your own government). 200 million in the last 100 years alone. In Laos, 1/4 of the population was eradicated for daring to oppose the Leftists. (Read the award-winning The Killing Fields.) In America, that would be 85 million Deplorables. Even if we "save 36,000/year" (an incredibly inflated claim), that still means it will take 2300 years until the "break-even point" where it is "worth" the 85 million dead.
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