Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: I'm okay with violent felons owning guns after they serve their sentence... [View all]gejohnston
(17,502 posts)like what good banning lobbying would do. There isn't a group that would support this. Lobbying is a form of petitioning the government and communicating with your representatives. Everyone is a member of at least two "special interest groups". Or are you saying that people should simply submit to politicians and political parties? I'm interesting on what you define as "reform" and other weasel words. What specific proposals. You have already said that you are for gun prohibition. Head up, if you happen to live in Norway, there are parts where the law mandates owning and carrying a firearm when not in the city. Just thought I would mention that.
Mine? We do know that Latin America has eight percent of the population, but one third of all homicides not counting military and para military operations. All of them have much stricter gun control laws than anywhere in Europe including the UK.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-most-violent-cities-in-the-world-2015-1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_murder_rate
Here are the fifty worst cities in the world, here is what they have in common. Out of the list, only three doesn't have strict gun control. Those are NOLA, St Louis, and Detroit.
What do they have in common?
As the article says, drug trafficking, gang wars, political instability, corruption, and poverty.
Let's focus on the US and expand it to not only the three listed above include DC, Chicago, Trenton, Memphis, Newark, Oakland, and Baltimore. Even then, it is concentrated in specific areas. What do these cities have in common? Like the rest they have
---political corruption
---gang warfare
---drug trafficking hubs
---poverty
---crumbling infrastructure in affected areas
---high illiteracy rate among high school graduates in affected areas
---anti intellectualism
food deserts more on that later.
---little to no opportunities for legitimate unemployment.
I have been in the poorest neighborhoods in Korea, Japan, and Germany. I did not see any of the above conditions. In Denver, DC, Metro Manila, San Francisco, I did.
Back to the food desert. Sometime ago, Obama said that it is easier to buy a gun than a fresh vegetable in parts of Chicago. Many of the gun blogs ridiculed him as being ignorant to the fact that there are no gun stores in Chicago, probably none in Cook County. I understood exactly what he meant. If you want to buy a gun in those parts of Chicago, you go see the guy that you get your weed or coke from. He might be next door. If you want to eat something other than shit loaded with chemicals and sodium from process foods isle at a gas station, then you have to travel a distance. That is why poor people are more obese than affluent people in this country. Since this is rather long, I will list some of my specific ideas.