"We don't need gun control. We need crime control," according to Mike Pence, former vice president.
Tell that to the families of the family of the young woman who was killed for the "crime" of being lost on a rural highway in New York State.
"Guns don't kill people. People kill people," says the National Rifle Association.
Tell that to the mothers who sent their children to a first grade classroom and died when a gun carrier broke into the school building.
Or to the teenager who made the mistake of being two blocks away from his destination and knocked on the door of a home with a similar address.
This is what happens when an honest mistake becomes a fatal mistake.
A common excuse is that the shooter "thought they were robbers or thieves or invaders." But what can excuse the gun carrier who shoots open a school door and kills children?
For years, the National Rifle Association has pushed the claim that guns are not the problem, but that people are the problem.
By that logic, perhaps there should be fewer people. That way, there would be fewer gun deaths. Evidence could be cited that there are fewer people in Canada, and since there are fewer gun deaths, that proves that guns are not the problem.
But that argument topples in the reality that the number of guns per thousand people in Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand is far lower than a similar statistic for the U.S. Put another way, there are more guns in America than there are people.
So while it may be a true statement that guns don't kill people; people kill people, that leaves out the reality that people use guns to kill other people.
Guns on their own cannot kill anybody.
As for those who have long claimed that American individuals need guns for protection in case of a foreign invasion, one must ask: From where, Canada?
Clearly these gun advocates do not trust local police, county police, state police, or military members of the U.S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Air Force, and the state supervised National Guard.
Individual whackos with AR-15 style machine guns are not typically members of a "well regulated militia," and therefore are not necessary to the security of a free state. But each state does have the right to have its "well regulated militia" keep and bear arms.
Those who kill multiples of innocent children with automatic weapons are not members of a well regulated militia.
As for Amendment IV, which guarantees the right of the people to be secure in their homes, this make no mention of guns. Rather, it requires that legal warrants be issued on probable cause.
Tell that to the families of the family of the young woman who was killed for the "crime" of being lost on a rural highway in New York State.
"Guns don't kill people. People kill people," says the National Rifle Association.
Tell that to the mothers who sent their children to a first grade classroom and died when a gun carrier broke into the school building.
Or to the teenager who made the mistake of being two blocks away from his destination and knocked on the door of a home with a similar address.
This is what happens when an honest mistake becomes a fatal mistake.
A common excuse is that the shooter "thought they were robbers or thieves or invaders." But what can excuse the gun carrier who shoots open a school door and kills children?
For years, the National Rifle Association has pushed the claim that guns are not the problem, but that people are the problem.
By that logic, perhaps there should be fewer people. That way, there would be fewer gun deaths. Evidence could be cited that there are fewer people in Canada, and since there are fewer gun deaths, that proves that guns are not the problem.
But that argument topples in the reality that the number of guns per thousand people in Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand is far lower than a similar statistic for the U.S. Put another way, there are more guns in America than there are people.
So while it may be a true statement that guns don't kill people; people kill people, that leaves out the reality that people use guns to kill other people.
Guns on their own cannot kill anybody.
As for those who have long claimed that American individuals need guns for protection in case of a foreign invasion, one must ask: From where, Canada?
Clearly these gun advocates do not trust local police, county police, state police, or military members of the U.S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Air Force, and the state supervised National Guard.
Individual whackos with AR-15 style machine guns are not typically members of a "well regulated militia," and therefore are not necessary to the security of a free state. But each state does have the right to have its "well regulated militia" keep and bear arms.
Those who kill multiples of innocent children with automatic weapons are not members of a well regulated militia.
As for Amendment IV, which guarantees the right of the people to be secure in their homes, this make no mention of guns. Rather, it requires that legal warrants be issued on probable cause.
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