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Originally Posted by The Unfan
Inspired by a point in another thread where it was mentioned that Canada has stricter gun control as evidenced by their lower crime rate. However, in America it is statistically true that more gun related violence takes place in "gun free zones" than any other place with exceptions maybe to the streets. How then is it evident that stricter gun laws make for less gun related violence? It seems to me that telling people they're not allowed to have a gun in a certain area makes it more likely that when someone does have a gun there that it'll actually make the situation worse. Shouldn't the solution be to allow people to have their self protection?
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Well, you can't have your cake and eat it too, or something. The backlash of the right to bear arms is that the arms inevitably find their way into the hands of the wrong people. Personally, I used to believe in the 2nd amendment. To be perfectly honest, I just don't understand the mentality that goes along with wanting to own a gun, so I'll try to leave personal preferences out of this argument.
There have been studies that showed when stricter gun control laws were enforced that gun crime in that area went down, but other petty crime went up(break-ins, robberies, etc.) It makes sense.
But, MO is that if we made guns illegal(hypothetical here) that there may initiially be an upswing in violent crime, and a huge political uproar. But, I think that once that subsides you would begin to see less and less gun crime, and all the while, authorities would be getting them out of the hands of criminals (gunowners, hypothetically). I believe most of the weapons in this country are made overseas. Well, there would have to be a way to restrict citizens from getting these, and keep them in the control of law enforcement and the military(where they would still be legal). Similarly, it would also be easy to do that for the weapons that were made here. What do you think about this idea, Unfan.? I'm curious to know, because I've never really expounded on it before until now.