Gun Control & RKBA

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So now you were just asking random questions?

Well the answer to your question is no.

The combined population of over half the United States and with a murder rate that averaged to more than the national average is not some trick or the light or slight of hand. America is a very dangerous place. Come live in Europe for a few years and your questions will be answered.

Put it a different way - all over Europe - a continent with more people than America - kids are safe enough to walk to and from school. Most kids literally have never even seen a shooting on the news. It's a nonexistent problem. The same goes for knives. There's basically no threat to anyone aside from things like robbery and mugging. And that threat is usually pretty low. Most people I know wouldn't be scared to leave their car unlocked on the street or their front door unlocked all day. My kids literally have never even heard of a school shooting. How far back in time would you have to go in America to achieve that? I went through metal detectors in High School in the early 90s. Kids in my high school were shot. That was just life. Not here. Kids walk home for lunch. Kids ride the bus into town by themselves. No one is scared of cops shooting them. If you think I'd rather my kids grow up in America surrounded by guns and heavily armed cops you're nuts.

The percentage of gun owners killing all those Americans is also beside the point. If you have to suffer to save thousands of kids a year - and by suffer I mean have your toy taken away - then so be it.

There's no justification got 300M guns being in the wild in a country of 300M. And even less when you simply look at all the innocent people that die so you can own a gun. I simply don't care about your desire to have one. It pales in comparison to all of the dead Americans. I don't think it should be a right and would indeed support the police knocking on your door and taking it away. Even if it only saved a few hundred children a year.

Your right to a toy doesn't supercede citizens rights to live in safety.