Posted on 12/21/2018 5:19:42 AM PST by marktwain
U.S.A. -(Ammoland.com)- A large number of people who wish to disarm the population start with the premise If there weren't any guns, as if, with extreme restrictions on owning and using guns, guns will eventually go away.
I recall a prominent talk show host in southern California, wailing about confiscated guns being sold: But if that happens, we will never be rid of guns! he cried as if his wish were plausible.
Guns are a 700 to 100-year-old technology. Guns can, and are, being made in homes and small shops around the world that are beyond state control.
Firearms have had extreme legal restrictions imposed over most of the planet. The United States is exceptional, with the Second Amendment. Most governments allow only small numbers of their people to legally have firearms.
People under those governments actively resist those laws. In spite of a century and a half of stringent restrictions on gun ownership, the number of guns in private hands has risen significantly.
The Small Arms Survey has created the best estimates of the number of small arms in private hands in other countries of the world. The number increased from 650 million in 2006 to 857 million in 2017.
Most people will accept the Small Arms Survey as a legitimate source. They are based in Switzerland, and have, as their mission:
Our main objective is to reduce the illicit proliferation of small arms
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That’s not the objective, but of course you know that too. 8^)
"...number of guns among citizens..."
Gun control has never been about reducing homicide rates. It is always to make oppressing the citizens safer for the oppressors. If every third pre-World War II German raid on private homes was met with gunfire and deaths, how many people would have been saved from the gas chambers?
The French yellow vests are probably being very civilized as I’ll bet there are plenty of illegal guns in private hands. Any people who survived the Nazi occupation would be crazy to turn them in at the end of the war.
It’s not about saving lives. They really don’t care about the lives.
You are correct. But that is not the way they sell it or argue it.
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Saw on the nets; “Making good people defenseless does not make bad people harmless.”
Because it isn’t gun control. It seeks only to take guns from honest, non-violent citizens and deliberately to leave them in the hands of violent criminals so they can use the guns to take what is “rightfully” theirs from the evil “oppressors.”
France has about 20 privately owned firearms per 100 people. Of those, two thirds are unregistered and thus, illegal.
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+1.
In California violent crimes where guns were used has gone UP.
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