For perspective, the United States has 4.3% of the world’s population. And according to Business insider, the chances historically of being assaulted by a gunman is 1 in 315 people. The population of the US is a little over 317 million people. That’s an historical determined estimate of over a million people being accosted by guns in the US every year. Think everyone should have a gun just because the constitution says it’s legal?
As for cars, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), there were 34,439 fatal motor vehicle crashes in the United States in 2016 alone in which 37,461 deaths occurred. This resulted in 11.6 deaths per 100,000 people. Think everyone should own a car?
According to The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), there are over 900,000 sex offenders that are registered in the US at the national level and all states have their registrations. And according to World Atlas, “the problem of sexually-oriented crime has ballooned to alarming proportions in the U.S. in recent years. According to one study, it is estimated that, on average, 300,000 women are victims of rape every year, while victims other sexual offenses total around 3.7 million annually. In addition, 900,000 children are criminally mistreated every year, with 9% being sexually abused. While the total number of registered sexual offenders across the U.S. is 747,408 per a recent estimate, there is wide variation in the populations of such criminals between states. California has the dubious distinction of having the greatest number of sexual offenders of any states, with Texas and Michigan close on its heels.
Guess not everyone should work with children.
And each one of the entries above, again, is just the ones they know about.
So what is the problem, since there is so much of it, of taking the guns away from a man, based upon evidence provided to a court, that he/she is dangerous and needs investigating? At what time he/she is found innocent, he will get them back and an opportunity to have his second day in court? Ever heard of better safe than sorry? And Willis pulled a gun on an armed cop. He sound safe or possibly insane to you? We don’t know. So let’s neutralize him and find out. And that is what the law is for.
rwood
You sum your post up as follows:
We don’t know. So let’s neutralize him and find out. And that is what the law is for.
We don't know, so let's dump on a citizen with the full force of the law? Make him prove his innocence? REALLY???
Not here. Not in America. Take your government tyranny and shove it.
The law is for punishing criminals, not harassing the law-abiding.