Are you inferring that the high crime rate will be magically eliminated by allowing gunslinging vigilantes the right to carry concealed weapons? The crime rate will only escalate, with innocent people like TM being shoot dead. Calling the TM case self defense is a misnomer. It’s manslaughter.
Terribly, terribly misinformed about concealed carry laws and high crime rates.
Look up homicide statistics over the last ten years in the USA. They are actually
declining! Yes, they are going
down!
Look for yourself on the FBI website:
fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8
Much of that decrease is attributable to concealed carry laws in a number of states. People who qualify for those permits are thoroughly scrutinized by law enforcement before they ever get a permit. ** IN GENERAL, THEY ARE NOT THE GUN VIOLENCE PROBLEM.** They are actually a deterrent to crime. Criminals in concealed carry states are a bit “edgier” about victimizing strangers.
Why do you think everyone with a concealed carry permit is a “gunslinging vigilante?” How absurd. Be careful. It might be an attractive, young mother of two out for her afternoon jog. You never know what she might have in her fanny-pack. But, it probably isn’t a snake that’s going to jump out and bite you as you pass her by.
Wanna-be tyrants, eager to deprive the citizenry of their basic human right to self-defense, and their wholly owned propagandists in the media are selling you a pack of lies. They are telling you gun violence is increasing, when they know better. They want the public to
perceive that gun violence is increasing, when it is not! They sensationalize every gun incident and try to terrorize the public into the concept that it would be somehow safer and more virtuous for everyone to be utterly defenseless. Of course, your government will provide for all of your protection…yeah, RIGHT!
Ever try calling the police in an apparent emergency? I did about two years ago and the 911 line was on automated “hold” with a recording for over twenty minutes! **THIS IS TRUE! **A lot of bad things can happen to you or your family in twenty minutes.
Gun violence is deplorable. All violence is deplorable. But violence is a reality of the world we Christians are passing through. Civilization cannot eradicate violence in the world…it can only attempt to deal with it in rational ways. Those ways will not be perfect. There will always be isolated extreme events and system failures.
One aspect of dealing with violence rationally lies with the judges and courts. Unfortunately, the courts today are pretty soft on criminality. For all their weakness, the courts and judges seem immune from public condemnation, by the same propagandists that condemn gun ownership by law-abiding citizens.
For example, I live in a large western American city where a burglar caught in the act in the morning, will be released by the court, to the streets again by afternoon (even before the arresting police officer gets off duty). The city has over 300 burglaries per month. That kind of ineffective dealing with serious criminals emboldens them, and virtually guarantees repeat, and probably more violent future crimes. Where does that burglar take his budding criminal career next? Assault? Armed robbery? Rape? Home invasion? Murder?
Every incident has the potential to become more violent than the last.
I sometimes wonder if our judges are not encouraged to quickly release criminals to the streets? Why? Because ***some people ***actually want to INCREASE social chaos! It’s a necessary prelude to the destruction of a free America and the creation of a new, totalitarian State.
