Gun Control Debunked

Maybe, just maybe, there was one, Honest Abe. But probably there was no Lincoln Derangement Syndrome back then.

 

I like your sentiment, but Chicago likely has the most stringent gun controls of anywhere already.

 

1. The most essential narrative promoted by proponents of gun control is that gun homicides in the USA is a major problem that everyone must be worried about.

Nope. The essential narrative promoted by proponents of gun control is we as a country have a problem with gun violence. There's too much of it. We need to act like any rational society would and take steps to make sure there is less of it. End of story.

 

That is not the end of the story. How the pro gun control group wants to end it is the problem.

 

A rational society would identify which individuals are responsible for the overwhelming majority of firearm-related violence, and go about removing said individuals from society for the duration of their natural lives, so they can no longer pose a risk of harm to anyone. A rational society would not be looking for the easy way out by scapegoating an inanimate object while pretending the people are not the problem.

 

That's rational?

So you get rid of all the guilty people, and from now on everyone in the future will be law abiding. So now that that is solved, you don't need guns anymore!

What a brilliant idea.

 

There will always be a legitimate need for firearms, as there will always be those who decide to disregard the rules of society and victimize others for their own private benefit. Such is a constant of the real world. But that constant is not grounds for continually letting known problematic individuals back into society, after they have already demonstrated that they will not adhere o the rules of society. Such is the metaphorical equivalent of the farmer allowing the fox to freely enter the hen house, despite knowing it will kill and eat all of the chickens inside of it.

 

So the people that commit mass shootings all had done it before?

 

it's sad that people think that gang crime is a good reason to take away good people's constitutional rights.

 

Mass shootings amount to a statistically minute, bordering on insignificant, amount of firearm-related deaths in the united states each year. Add up all the number of deaths from all mass shootings in the united states in a given year, and it will still be a smaller number than the number of firearm-related deaths in the city of Chicago alone.