“If this is the main point of your argument, you are conflagurating two different issues. Gun ownership and crime. They are about the same as car ownership and crime. After all, many criminals use cars in the commission of their crimes also.”
No, the people on this board are conflagurating the two issues. I didn’t mention gun ownership first. I was trying to discuss the reasons why there is so much crime, and why it seems to be increasing.
“I as a citizen am not overly concerned with why a criminal does what he does.”
That’s an extraordinary statement. If you are a citizen you should be immensely interested in why crime is on the increase in your society. After all it indirectly affects you, even if you are never a victim of it. If crime increases the bills for the police, the justice system, the prison system etc all go up, which means ultimately your taxes go up (or they stay the same and the nation does without something else). If shoplifting goes up, then stores compensate by putting prices up, which affects you again. If robberies increase, then your insurance payments go up. Crime is very anti-social. Its very destructive.
“We have created a system in this country whereby people are taught in our schools and by our federal and state government’s actions that all people are entitled to free healthcare, pay without work etc.. and you ask why we have criminals? It’s because they have grown up in an environment where they are told they are entitled to things, that’s why!”
I agree that is certainly a big part of the problem. People think that the world owes them a living. When they discover it doesnt, the temptation there is just to take.
I would also put forward the kind of “get-rich quick” materialist mentality that we as a society are pushing. Why should people study hard, work hard, scrimp and save, when you can get far more money by picking six numbers at random in a lottery? Or acting like a complete jerk on some reality TV show? People have the attitude “Why should you have more than I have, its not fair!” To which the answer is “Because I worked hard for it, you waster!”