The Gun Debate is Ass-Backwards
"If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns".
The premise has it exactly backwards.The only reason outlaws HAVE guns is because they are legal and easily accessible. Guns don't fall out of some "bad guys" gun heaven. They are legally manufactured, legally put on the market.
"Bad guys" (however you decide to subjectively define them) acquire them by several methods.
They may get them legally, passing all background checks, and by all definitions even intend to be the "good guy" until they have an accident, or snap, or find that a nefarious use for them turns out to be something they think might be advantageous at the time.
They can buy them through legal loopholes, bypassing checks.
They may purchase them illegally.
They may steal them from "good guys". We're hearing more and more stories of people breaking into houses specifically to steal guns. Anything they steal to pawn, any money they can steal, drugs, any profitable material they can find is all well and good, but they REALLY hit the jackpot if they can rob firearms. So, you may be a "good guy with a gun", just having them there for a "bad guy" to find. And you're still considered a "responsible gun owner", just one with bad luck.
And all this crime? All these robberies? Well good enough excuse to want to own guns for "personal protection". Making you a target. Your ownership is a potential other gun (or guns) available. And the wheel goes around and the perceived "need" for guns escalates. All well and good for the manufacturers, marketers, and lobbyists that want to sell more.
We can't be solving this problem through more guns. And we can't solve it by getting bogged down in arcane language of what's a legal gun and not. Or who deserves the right to carry.
We can only solve it by making gun ownership incredibly difficult for everyone. And we're doing the opposite.
But how do we get all these guns off the street? By starting.
But we won't.
And I'm fine with that. I've come to find the carnage just a sideshow. It's what we do. It's who we are. We can't do anything about it, because we won't. That simple. Yes. We ARE that simple.
Anyway. You own a gun? You're a good guy? Thanks. You're not a part of the problem. You ARE the problem. You're where the problem begins.
The premise has it exactly backwards.The only reason outlaws HAVE guns is because they are legal and easily accessible. Guns don't fall out of some "bad guys" gun heaven. They are legally manufactured, legally put on the market.
"Bad guys" (however you decide to subjectively define them) acquire them by several methods.
They may get them legally, passing all background checks, and by all definitions even intend to be the "good guy" until they have an accident, or snap, or find that a nefarious use for them turns out to be something they think might be advantageous at the time.
They can buy them through legal loopholes, bypassing checks.
They may purchase them illegally.
They may steal them from "good guys". We're hearing more and more stories of people breaking into houses specifically to steal guns. Anything they steal to pawn, any money they can steal, drugs, any profitable material they can find is all well and good, but they REALLY hit the jackpot if they can rob firearms. So, you may be a "good guy with a gun", just having them there for a "bad guy" to find. And you're still considered a "responsible gun owner", just one with bad luck.
And all this crime? All these robberies? Well good enough excuse to want to own guns for "personal protection". Making you a target. Your ownership is a potential other gun (or guns) available. And the wheel goes around and the perceived "need" for guns escalates. All well and good for the manufacturers, marketers, and lobbyists that want to sell more.
We can't be solving this problem through more guns. And we can't solve it by getting bogged down in arcane language of what's a legal gun and not. Or who deserves the right to carry.
We can only solve it by making gun ownership incredibly difficult for everyone. And we're doing the opposite.
But how do we get all these guns off the street? By starting.
But we won't.
And I'm fine with that. I've come to find the carnage just a sideshow. It's what we do. It's who we are. We can't do anything about it, because we won't. That simple. Yes. We ARE that simple.
Anyway. You own a gun? You're a good guy? Thanks. You're not a part of the problem. You ARE the problem. You're where the problem begins.
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