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Originally Posted by hkbajwa  The basic argument i hear from gun-supporters is that there are evil people out there who want my stuff and i have the right to defend it. So i have a suggestion. How about legislation that completely bans people from carrying guns around with them. If you need a gun to protect your family, then keep the gun at home and use it when your property is being violated. The advantage of such legislation is that anybody using a gun outside their premises will immediately be censured. The gun then can only be used as a method of self defence, because you are not allowed to take your firearm out and about.
The ABSENCE of lethal weaponry ( which is designed only to KILL - as opposed to cars and power tools) directly affects the number of deaths. No guns means no gun murders.
| Again Washington DC has banned guns, yet they lead the nation in Gun Related murders per capita. So it would seem that your logic ignores the reality. There is no censure except of those law abiding citizens who wish to protect themselves. The law prohibits guns so there should be no gun deaths, yet there are more here every year than any other city per capita.
So you protect yourself at home, but that is where your right to life ends??? I am sorry, if you only allow people to use guns in their own homes, then criminals will adapt and only attack people on the streets.
Concealed Carry Laws have a free-rider effect. Since criminals do not know who is carry a weapon, they are less like to assault people on the streets for fear of coming accross someone who is carrying a weapon. You see, you don't even have to carry a weapon, and the law is already helping to protect you.
dmk Conservatism, I repeat is not an ideology. It does not breed fanatics....But if you want men who seek, reasonably and prudently, to reconcile the best in wisdom of our ancestors with the change which is essential to a vigorous civil social existence, then you will do well to turn to conservative principles
-Russell Kirk- |