Column: Lax gun control to blame for increased violence, not religion

wildcat.arizona.edu ^ | 11/25/2015 | Jessica Suriano

[rktman]

The real problem does not lie with these refugees seeking help from America. The real problem lies in the accessibility terrorists have to guns in this country.

Rep. Tony Dale, a Republican congressman for the state of Texas, expressed that one of his top concerns about the refugee situation is how easy it is to buy a gun in his state.

Dale is not wrong. The availability of guns for anyone in America, even legally, is nonsensical. According to the Government Accountability Office, between 2004 and 2014, 91 percent of the time suspected terrorists attempted to buy guns in America they succeeded. This is because the law only bans felons, fugitives, drug addicts and domestic abusers from purchasing guns. However if a person’s background check indicates he or she is on the FBI’s terrorist watch list, usually under “reasonable suspicion,” they are not prohibited from legally purchasing rifles or handguns. Some bipartisan groups attempted to pass a law that would no longer make this possible, but the National Rifle Association not surprisingly, opposed it.

[pallis]

Let’s not peek to see where all the gun violence is occurring, and who is doing it. That would be racially and culturally insensitive. Think drugs, gangs, hip hop, hate and ignorance, along with inner city schools, housing, and black markets.

How much of gun violence is the result of people protecting themselves and their property?

[Iron Munro]

Boy, if we had common sense gun control like they have in France, we’d be safe then!

Or Chicago.

[PATRIOT1876]

Moronic on nearly every topic.

How are we going to defend ourselves if only the thugs and the muslims are armed?

YIKES! The stupid must burn. Feel the Bern!

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

This is clearly a “supporting effort” of the leftist anti gun push to deny anyone on the ‘no fly’ list their constitutional rights, even though that list is a hodgepodge with no one responsible for it, and all sorts of government and even non-government bodies able to add to it.

[VaeVictis]

Actually, they may be right. Socialist, left-wing nuts and muslims should be limited with guns.

[stephenjohnbanker]

The liberal arts at UA is as left as San Francisco State. Conservatives tip toe around it : )

[DoughtyOne]

LOL

Heeeeyyyeeee...

= :^)

[Ann de IL]

The governor of Texas, Greg Abbot, is not mentioned in the article. I do agree with the rest of your statement tho, and so do all the people who are posting replies at that site. Poor little snowflake is getting pounded with logic and facts. Her head is probably spinning.

[Roger Kaputnik]

The stupidity is overwhelming.

[Secret Agent Man]

Exactly. Anyone an enemy of the current regime could be placed on there for any reason, they don’t have to tell you, and you’d never be able to fight it.

[JimRed]

The real problem lies in the accessibility terrorists have to guns in this country.

They only need to walk into their local armory mosque and ask for armament.

[upcountryhorseman]

France has the kinds of gun laws that these idiots are
trying to impose upon The U. S.: How well did it work for them?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

ping

[backwoods-engineer]

The availability of guns for anyone in America, even legally, is nonsensical.

Then, the punk can come and try to take them. If he has got the guts. He/she/it doesn't.

[Pontiac]

Cruz continued to stress, presumably in an effort to justify his stance further, that he does not want to turn away Christian refugees, just Muslims. He argued that Christians pose no “meaningful risk” of a terrorist attack.

Do the Crusades or even the Westboro Baptist Church ring a bell? No one religion is more capable of harm than another, and Islam definitely is not the only religion in our world right now that's followers commits acts of terror in the name of their beliefs. Ideally, yes, religion and war would not involve one another; but that is the way the relationship between the two has been since the major world religions emerged, and will probably not change anytime soon. In this case, it is better to be proactive about gun policy than jeopardize the principles that America was founded on by turning away those in desperate need for safety.

Well she is not wrong, every religion is equally CAPABLE of violence. However capability does not equate to likelihood.

And even as obnoxious as Westboro is, it is not a violent group. The Crusades were a response to preceding centuries of Muslim aggression agains Christian lands. By the time of the Crusades Muslims had conquered two thirds of Christendom.

Muslims however are far more prone to violence than other religions. Too deny this fact is to deny reality. The verifiable facts can not be refuted.

And why does the availability of firearms even have to come in to this. We do not have to accept refugees and if we do accept refugees we do not have to release them in to the general population. Other countries keep refugees in camps confined away from their citizens.

The refugees can be segregated away from or general population. They do not need to be given permanent residency status. They can be repatriated to their home country after the passing of the current crisis.

We can provide them humanitarian aid without endangering our own people unnecessarily.