All the banning of the legal sale of handguns means only people who purchase guns illegally are the ones who have guns.
This is one of the classic misunderstood lines thrown up in anti-control laws. The core thing that would come from banning all handguns is less access to them and fewer handguns. Which in turn leads to drops in firearm related deaths.
The only statistically consistent fact that has played out all over countries with strong gun control laws is that gun control reduces firearm related crimes. Other crime rates have not been shown to consistently trend one way or the other as a result.
If you want to easy legal access to guns, you have to accept that you can live with the consequences. It's like access to anything that is dangerous. The more of it there is, the higher the incidents that it will be misused.
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Re: Guns
Date: 2012-06-07 09:36 pm (UTC)This is one of the classic misunderstood lines thrown up in anti-control laws. The core thing that would come from banning all handguns is less access to them and fewer handguns. Which in turn leads to drops in firearm related deaths.
The only statistically consistent fact that has played out all over countries with strong gun control laws is that gun control reduces firearm related crimes. Other crime rates have not been shown to consistently trend one way or the other as a result.
If you want to easy legal access to guns, you have to accept that you can live with the consequences. It's like access to anything that is dangerous. The more of it there is, the higher the incidents that it will be misused.