Yossarian
Forum Resistance Leader
This topic has been brought up a thousand if not more times , let alone dozens on this forum alone.
But I am asking for another perspective on the problem of gun control and regulation.
I am looking for those on this forum with experience in law enforcement on the question of how many gun crimes or crimes involving firearms are from legal qualified gun owners with registered firearms.
With the trade in Arizona still very much fresh in our minds, this topic is bound make more than one appearance in the mainstream media. But from what I can tell is that the maniac who went loose that day in Tuscon used a legal and had legal ownership of the weapon.
The reason I ask for law enforcement stats is because one main agreement against ( least for me) for gun restrictions or banning laws is because that a MAJORITY, is not a vast majority of gun related crimes, and crimes involving firearms are via people who do not have legally owned firearms,or are qualified to own them.
I really do not think banning firearms to the public, will stop strategies like Tuscon, Virginia Tech, even older cases like the Texas Campus Shooter, banning them would have in theory have little effect on such occurrences.
For instance, theft is illegal, but yet people still walk out of department stores with merchandise in their pockets, and even rob convenient stores.
Murder is illegal, yet people kill each other in cities and even rural areas around the country every day.
My point being that any statistics on gun crime, and relation to gun criminals who have legal gun ownership to those who do not and any conclusion that we here at the forums can come to on how to look at the matter.
The question being, does gun crimes generally involve illegal firearms? And if so, how would regulating the legal law abiding gun owners help prevent that?Or even lower gun related crime? And would it help prevent tragedies like in Tuscon?
Any and ALL thoughts on the subject are very much welcome.
But I am asking for another perspective on the problem of gun control and regulation.
I am looking for those on this forum with experience in law enforcement on the question of how many gun crimes or crimes involving firearms are from legal qualified gun owners with registered firearms.
With the trade in Arizona still very much fresh in our minds, this topic is bound make more than one appearance in the mainstream media. But from what I can tell is that the maniac who went loose that day in Tuscon used a legal and had legal ownership of the weapon.
The reason I ask for law enforcement stats is because one main agreement against ( least for me) for gun restrictions or banning laws is because that a MAJORITY, is not a vast majority of gun related crimes, and crimes involving firearms are via people who do not have legally owned firearms,or are qualified to own them.
I really do not think banning firearms to the public, will stop strategies like Tuscon, Virginia Tech, even older cases like the Texas Campus Shooter, banning them would have in theory have little effect on such occurrences.
For instance, theft is illegal, but yet people still walk out of department stores with merchandise in their pockets, and even rob convenient stores.
Murder is illegal, yet people kill each other in cities and even rural areas around the country every day.
My point being that any statistics on gun crime, and relation to gun criminals who have legal gun ownership to those who do not and any conclusion that we here at the forums can come to on how to look at the matter.
The question being, does gun crimes generally involve illegal firearms? And if so, how would regulating the legal law abiding gun owners help prevent that?Or even lower gun related crime? And would it help prevent tragedies like in Tuscon?
Any and ALL thoughts on the subject are very much welcome.
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