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MKUltra:
Thanks for the info. So then let's agree that some say increasing gun control will make a difference, and others say it won't.
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The main point I was trying to make is don't put your faith in a study paid for by somebody with an agenda, will more gun laws reduce gun crime? I really doubt it.
There will always be those who abuse something, I for one don't blame the shovel for the hole.
The left has been working the "just a little bit more restriction... just a few more laws and this whole problem goes away" angle for generations even though it doesn't seem to have worked so far, the problem persists.
The fact that it seems to be only the left that are trying to remove guns from the hands of citizens tells me that the 2nd amendment is working as planned and that an armed population is making them just a little bit nervous.
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If you were in charge and could do anything to reduce gun violence, what would it be?
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#1- Ban Canadians
#2- From the statistics it seems that the huge per capita majority of gun crimes happen in the cities, let me tell you a little story...
I got my first shotgun when I was around 12 or 13 years old, a single-shot .410, my father used to let me go into the large water percolation area next to our farm to hunt with it when I went out to the farm with him on Saturdays.
One day a jackrabbit jumped from behind a tumbleweed and started running away from me, without thinking I aimed and fired.
When the dust cleared the rabbit was bouncing up and down and his legs were still trying to run, but the back of his head was missing.
I had this immediate, overwhelming feeling of "what have I done?" Feelings of horror and grief that I can still feel to this day.
That jackrabbit had done nothing to deserve this.
My father had taught me about gun safety and gun handling before he ever let me out on my own but nothing he taught me prepared me for what it felt like to kill something with a gun. Shooting birds with a bb gun doesn't even come close.
I never really respected the lethal power and finality of a gun until that moment, and that respect has never waned even though I continued to hunt varmints that caused damage to our crops and shot dove and pheasant to eat.
Kid in the cities never have experiences like that, they never have their fathers teach them to respect and be safe with guns, all they learn is what they see on tv and the movies.
Guns make you a badass.
Guns make the other guy fall down and you win.
Guns give you power.
Guns are cool.
So when they get older and have the pressures from poverty and gangs getting a gun becomes a no-brainer for them, they don't experience what it's like to kill with a gun until it's too late.
But of course if anybody suggests teaching gun safety and education in the schools the left goes into convulsions with blood squirting from their ears at the very idea.
Would teaching kids gun safety and respect solve the problem on it's own? No.
Would it help? I think in time,Yes.