sith_lord_zitroNew Mexico governor issues order suspending the right to carry firearms in public across Albuquerque
Open or concealed carry is insane. You Americans are unhinged.
This is from a gun owner.
sudo22Believing a politician can unilaterally suspend a right protected by both the federal and state constitution is unhinged.
I wasn’t commenting on that, I was commenting on carrying a gun in public
Licensed concealed carriers have a lower violent crime rate than the general public. So its unhinged to ban these individuals from carrying thinking it’ll stop criminals.
Licensed concealed carriers have a lower violent crime rate than the general public.
Than the general public in America maybe, but legal gun owners in other countries have a violent crime rate of functionally zero, since they’re properly vetted through laws that aren’t dogshit.
But even giving you that point, what about all the violent crime those permissive laws enable?
Over 70% of mass shooters use legal firearms. Of the remaining, most are teenagers who took the poorly secured firearm of a family member.
There is no magic gun fairy distributing illegal firearms. Every firearm in the hands of a criminal was either bought legally, stolen from a “responsible gun owner” who didn’t secure it, straw purchased or purchased through a loophole.
Nevertheless, the pro-gun community opposes more robust background checks, mandatory safe storage laws or the closing of loopholes.
And what does the public get in return? Mostly just shot because none of the pro-gun promises have come true.
Good guys with guns intervene in 3% of shootings. The crime rate remains the same as comparable countries. The country is no more free when measured by any metric except guns. The government spies on and kills its own citizens.
The gun laws are a failure.
Jeremy [Iowa]other countries have a violent crime rate of functionally zero
The US isn’t far removed from homicide rates of other countries when comparing the rates.
Ironically, you highlight the problem is violence and the drives to it over the firearms.
Fun little exercise for anyone clicking that link: Sort by highest homicide rate and scroll down until you hit “United States”, counting the number of countries along the way that you’d be comfortable moving to and would expect to have a reasonably comparable quality of life to the USA.
Was the number zero? Probably, because most of those countries are not doing well. Wars, widespread poverty, corruption, exploitation, poor educational and medical outcomes.
I’m sure plenty of them are full of amazing people and cultures and would be great for a holiday, but they’re not exactly nipping at the USAs heels when it comes to GDP.
Anyway, we’ve identified all the countries that are worse, what about the ones that are better? Keep scrolling down past the USA, still looking for that country you’d actually want to live in.
Takes a while huh? You’d think with all the promises the pro-gun people make and comparative wealth of America, it would be firmly in the #1 spot.
Ironically, you highlight the problem is violence and the drives to it over the firearms.
Nobody is claiming that gun control will stop all violence. But the existence of violence doesn’t obligate us to provide quick, easy access to the means to escalate violence and maximise damage, even to people with a long history of red flags.