2aguy
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this is a common talking point for righties . If more guns are aviailble to people then there's less crime because everyone is armed .
It isn't a talking point...it is a fact.....
In the United States we had 200 million guns in private hands in the 1990s and 4.7 million Americans actually carried guns for self defense...legally.........in 2016 we now had 357-400 million guns and over 15 million Americans carrying guns for self defense legall.
According to you, we should have had massive increases in gun crime and gun murder....
What did we actually have?
--our gun crime rate went down 75%....so your belief is wrong.
--our gun murder rate went down 49%....so your belief is wrong.
--our violent crime rate went down 72%.....so your belief is wrong.
And in that time what happened in Britain..where they took guns away from normal British people....the gun crime rate and the gun murder rate went up....then went back to the same place it was before the ban...
And now in London, gun crime went up 42%......last year....20 years after the ban...and violent crime is up 24%....
So you are wrong Timmy...everything you believe about guns is just wrong......and made up in your head.
Timmy....how do you explain the fact that as more Americans...a lot more.....own and carried guns...and our crime rates went down.....how do you explain that? Since you believe that more guns in more hands has to create more gun murder, more gun crime and more violent crime....
How do you explain that?
We're waiting....
You mistake me for someone who wants to ban guns . I don't have issues with gun ownership or even conceal/carry . I'd just like sensible gun control (background checks , gun "titles" to follow sales ) .
There are many reasons that crime has dropped.
What you will find is states wh tougher gun laws have overall less gun crime than gun nut states . And please , no intellectual dishonesty in comparing a New York wh Wyoming.
Well sure, Chicago proves your assertion.
Chicago is a city . Not a state . And they import those guns from loose law gun nut states :
You're an idiot, a blind partisan idiot. There is no debating a mental invalid. They don't "import" them from anywhere dolt. They buy them on the black market.
Yeah. From gun nut states who make it easy to straw purchase.
Every gun is born "legal", so tell me how they end up Illegal ?
They are stolen by criminals or sold to criminals...criminals who already cannot legally buy, own or carry a gun....
And moron....it isn't easy to straw purchase...you have to go through a federal background check at a gun store for every gun bought....
And for private sales.....the people who will sell a gun to a criminal won't do a background check...and the straw buyer who can buy a gun at a gun store will pass a background check for a private sale too....making background checks useless...