It's all well and good for you anti-gun people to bring up how firearms are misused by criminals and idiots in violation of the many laws on the books. The point is taken.
But laws are only good if they are respected by the general public AND the riff-raff of a society. MY point in this debate has always been that the law-abiding citizen who owns firearms are not the problem. Which of the two groups just mentioned has total contempt for the law and makes no effort to comply with it? Yep...you got it...the criminal class of gang-banger punks which is responsible for at least 60% of the reported cases of violent assault and homicides in this country.
Stating that cars have a useful purpose and firearms do not is outside the scope of the argument about the country's laws. The virulently anti-gun crowd is advocating taking firearms away from EVERYONE in the country because of the depradations of the nation's gangs and criminals. What can that possibly accomplish? Our criminals are well-funded by drug money and so dominated by a cult of violence that they have no intentions whatsoever of complying with any such law. If need be, they'll establish a black-market in weapons.
The laws won't work because that class of fools will not respect them. To prove my point I will simply state that traffic laws have not worked to reduce highway deaths in this country because YOU the nation's drivers do not respect them.
When was the last time you advocates of the need for firearms laws obeyed the 55mph speed limit on a two lane highway? Or even came within 15 mph of it? Or got your giggles driving while under the influence, however slight, of booze or some other controlled substance? Have you ever personally known a drunk driver who killed somebody on the road? Isn't he just as guilty of murder as someone who pulls out a knife or a gun or a baseball bat and deliberately takes a life? Don't give me all that watermelon about "intent" being the difference between a murderer and a drunk driver who takes a life because as far as I'm concerned the drunk "intended" to drive the car in that condition.
How often have you drag-raced on a public-thoroughfare when you were in high-school? Isn't that a threat to innocent life? Wasn't it against the law? Yet you did it anyway didn't ya?
Have you ever crossed three lanes of traffic at once, at high speed, even tho' it's against the law? Ever driven down the interstate at speeds in excess of 120mph? I did it once as a snot-nosed punk college student. Was it dangerous? You're dam straight it was! Stupidest, most irresponsible think I've ever done...and it was done in violation of the law and with total disregard for my own safety and the safety of the two people riding with me and the safety of the other vehicles I met.
On a two-mile stretch of two lane highway that runs between my house and a Crackerbox convenience store there have been 7 traffic fatalities in the last 10 years. In that same amount of time there have been exactly 0 firearms fatalities or homicides in the neighborhoods fronting that same stretch of highway. Which of the two problems do you think is of the greatest concern to me?
Total moving-vehicle deaths in the U.S., which has about 200 million drivers, is routinely over 40,000 a year.
Total homicides, both murder and justifiable, in the U.S. are below 20,000 a year, in a nation where more than 100 million citizens own firearms.
Do the math yourself.
