“criminal gangbangers carry guns because they fear rival gangs more than they fear being prosecuted for gun crimes”
Bingo. We have more than enough laws, they just aren’t being enforced.
Here’s a big part of the problem: “criminal gang bangers”= “child victims of gun crimes” The NYT, CNN polls, the DNC
So, because we law abiding citizens also don’t trust that the large body of laws we have now will be enforced, like the bangers, and because we can’t carry cops, we are forced to defend ourselves by arming ourselves.
The rest of the problem: the Left’s solution is to disarm the law abiding because they assume we will obey the law.
Guess again: self defense and defense of others is a natural right.
Martin Luther King, in his famous “Letter from the Birmingham Jail,” called on all Americans to actively but peacefully oppose laws that were morally wrong. King wrote:
“There are just laws and there are unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that an unjust law is no law at all... One who breaks an unjust law must do it openly, lovingly...I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.”
More than 179,000 illegal immigrants convicted of committing crimes, including violent ones, continue to roam free across the United States, with reports indicating that these illegal immigrants commit new crimes “every day,” according to lawmakers and the director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, also known as ICE.
Sarah Saldana, ICE’s director, disclosed to Congress on Wednesday that the agency is apprehending and removing fewer illegal immigrants than in past years.
Somewhere around 179,029 “undocumented criminals with final orders of removal” from the United States currently remain at large across the country and are essentially untraceable, according to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who disclosed these numbers during a Wednesday hearing.
And we are supposed to be defenseless because govt doesn’t do their job??