Now to be the gun-slinging second amendment
gun rights advocate; assault weapons don’t need to be banned! I’m going to (again) quote Bill Whittle in
his speech on gun control:
“In 2011, the total number of
firearm murders came to about 8,583 according the FBI. Now during that time, the total number of
murders by rifles, ALL rifles not just semi-automatic rifles, were 324. Now that is only 3% of all murders, hammers
and clubs kill half as many as rifles, hands and feet kill twice as many, and
knives kill five times as many people than all rifles combined. Preventative medical errors kill about 98,000
people a year, medical malpractice kills twelve times as many people that are
murdered each year and three hundred times more than all rifles combined; and
yet, no one talks about limits on hammers or knives or doctors. And no one does that because the good we perceive
from hammers or knives or doctors far outweigh their harm. Studies show that firearms prevent anywhere
from 800,000 to 2 million violent crimes each year. The lowest estimate means that 100 times more
violent crimes were prevented with firearms than the total number of crimes
committed with firearms.”
This again brings up back to the
statement that we don’t want to ban guns, we want to ban violence.
Another loophole in banning assault
weapons is simple; if semi-automatic rifles should be out of the hands of
citizens because “they are dangerous” or “they serve no purpose to civilians”
then why is it legal to buy silencers and fully automatic weapons? I’ll tell you why- because the government slapped
a $200 tax on silencers and fully automatic weapons! It’s all about profit, no one higher up
benefits from semi-automatics, and these rare statistics we plaster all over
the news gives them a way to ban something that doesn’t them. I would not be surprised if they “compromised”
with us and slapped a $200 tax and 6 months of paperwork on these rifles.
Now,
is there anywhere that lack of gun control does work? Yes! In
the Youtube video I showed in my post for banning assault weapons John Oliver
speaks with the Prime Minister or Australia who reformed their gun control
after a massacre in Port Arthur. This
clip also brings up a very good point against gun control; Australia has no gun
control since a huge massacre in a place called Port Arthur 17 years ago and
there has not been one massacre since(a massacre being killing more than 4 people)! As opposed to the 18 years before that, there
had been 13 massacres. Now while the gun
rights advocate in my clip is saying that “back here in the real world that
wouldn’t work.” Is Australia some fairy
tale land with unicorns and leprechauns? No- it is a real place and who is to say that
our crime wouldn’t change if we took out our gun control? But of course no one in congress thinks of
that in “real people land”.
Assault weapons are not the problem
and we all know that, whether or not it serves a specific purpose is not the
point. “Recreational” is what we do with
our time(as long as it’s legal). If I want
to go to Brown’s Camp and shoot at a dirt wall with my AR-15 for 5 hours then I
should be able to!
I am not what you would call 'a gun person'. I don't understand why people like guns so much. I have shot a few riffles and even an AR-15 and I got nothing out of it. But on the other hand I don't have anything against them, or their owners, unless you're shooting people with them. The US instated prohibition with the Volstead Act because they thought it would make the country a happier and safer, grated they amended the constitution to remove it, but at least they tried. I don't understand why we don't try something. I also hear the same argument, criminals will get guns either way, what a crock! Bad people break the law, but we still have laws.
ReplyDeleteWow. I found that very interesting to read. I loved the introduction with the speech. Those statistics amaze me on how many other ways people die rather from being shot and killed by guns. It is true violence is the main issue not guns. Guns don't kill people, people kill people. Irresponsible gun holders kill people. When by boyfriend was young, his friend was cleaning his gun and accidentally shot him in the leg. Safety first people! Also putting more rules and regulations on gun control won't protect our community any more or less because there is always a way to get something the illegal way. Drugs, guns, and prostitutes I can find them all down town Portland or the internet, true story.
ReplyDeletethat is very true, and when John Oliver was talking to a gun rights activist, that was his only argument: why put laws on guns? criminals can get it illegally anyway! so what!
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