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ORIGINAL: MasterREB why should we ban any gun or mags the swiss all have automatic wepons they are the standing army of swiss do they have any gun violance i dout it if every one 18-65 has an automatic wepon noone will be that stupid and beside the gun ban is just the tail wagging the Dog it isnt the guns it is all the people that have been released from the mental hospitals not taking their meds but we can make them take them can we Uh, the american anti-gun peoples do not want to hear that. Or that isreal has some of the laxest gun laws and low gun crime rate. There are a lot of theories about why the US has such a high gun crime rate, but not all of them point to the ease of getting a gun. Besides most criminals do not legally buy their guns. Is James Holmes and Adam Lanza criminals? They both are on trial for killing scores of adults/children with guns they purchased legally. In the legal viewpoint right now, until proved guilty, both young men are considered 'honest and law-abiding citizens' with lawful rights to firearms. No one is going to give either one a firearm while they are still in their individual trials. Even since Newton Ct. shooting, there have been hundreds of firearm related deaths. How many of the shooters obtained their firearms legally? Hard to say as its a case by case basis. Then of course, there's the wannabe police officer down in Florida that tailed a 17 year old black kid and killed him, claiming the state's 'Stand Your Ground' self defense. Until he's been cleared of all charges he can not hold possession of a firearm. But, until he is also found guity in a court of law, he's still considered a 'honest and law abiding citizen' whom obtain his firearm legally. The point I'm trying to make here is that until one is found guilty of a crime, they are not a criminal. They might behave unethically, immorally, anti-PC and even with a criminalistic bent. But in the eyes of the law, they are considered 'honest and law abiding citizens'. An that means, they can obtain a firearm. Where does the individual get a gun when they dont want to attract the attention of the police? By buying one illegally. Where did the supplier get the gun? Probably from someone else that stole the gun. And where did that guy steal the gun? From an 'honest and law abiding citizen' with guns. Given the amount of firearms within the country, it should not be surprising how easily guns are to obtain in the black market. The thought process (whether you agree or not) is that by placing limits, regulations and situational moments into law, makes it tougher for those guns to be in circulation in the first place. The supplier will raise their prices due to the shortage of guns in the open. Last I checked, if you remove the 'instant gratification' most Americans seem to suffer from in the capitalistic model, waiting a week or two to obtain a firearm should not be a problem (after background checks, drug tests, mental health screening, etc). On the issue of Israel's gun ownership and violence, I was honestly not well versed on the information. So I went looking. Here's something curious I found.... "First of all, because they don’t have high levels of gun ownership. The gun ownership in Israel and Switzerland has decreased. For instance, in Israel, they’re very limited in who is able to own a gun. There are only a few tens of thousands of legal guns in Israel, and the only people allowed to own them legally live in the settlements, do business in the settlements, or are in professions at risk of violence. Both countries require you to have a reason to have a gun. There isn’t this idea that you have a right to a gun. You need a reason. And then you need to go back to the permitting authority every six months or so to assure them the reason is still valid. The second thing is that there’s this widespread misunderstanding that Israel and Switzerland promote gun ownership. They don’t. Ten years ago, when Israel had the outbreak of violence, there was an expansion of gun ownership, but only to people above a certain rank in the military. There was no sense that having ordinary citizens [carry guns] would make anything safer. Switzerland has also been moving away from having widespread guns. The laws are done canton by canton, which is like a province. Everyone in Switzerland serves in the army, and the cantons used to let you have the guns at home. They’ve been moving to keeping the guns in depots. That means they’re not in the household, which makes sense because the literature shows us that if the gun is in the household, the risk goes up for everyone in the household." SOURCE I bolded the part that even I, would find annoying if applied in the USA. Likewise, Isreal is *NOT* a peaceful country; to say otherwise means you live in fantasy land! Oh, and I wasnt looking up information for the Swiss, but apartly that was in this document too. Which brings up a rather curious question: Why do gun owners, cite concepts of both the Swiss and the Isrealis that are not 100%, factually true? If your going to throw out an arguement, shouldnt the information be true and correct?
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