Alright. Now that I've gotten out my beliefs on the whole gun control issue in the post below, I can talk about a very real consequence. If there were stricter gun control laws or if we had our gun rights taken away completely, would it really solve the violence issue in our nation? Be honest now. Because the whole reason (we're told by the government) to have stricter gun control laws is to try and lower our crime rates. Unfortunately what gun control activists fail to realize is that guns are not the only weapons used in violent acts. Knives, cars, bombs, baseball bats, hammers, flower vases, fists, and that's just to name a few, can all be used to get the same act done as a gun. Don't believe me? Back in December, a Chinese man went on a stabbing spree in China at a school and wounded 23 students. Many people didn't hear of this incident because we were all looking at the Newtown shooting. But was the shooting at Newtown really any different or more important than what happened in China? People were still wounded and murdered by a mad man using an instrument for the wrong reasons.
But to suggest banning knives (or hammers or cars, etc) would be a preposterous idea wouldn't it? Yet there are thousands of crimes every year that involve them or something else that isn't a gun.
Sure if guns were banned there'd be fewer crimes involving guns (fewer, but not no crimes because there would still be those criminals who refused to turn their guns in) but to suggest that banning guns would solve our crime and violence problem is ignorant. If guns were banned, people intent on harming other people would just find another instrument to use.
Such a simple idea that so many people fail to realize. So really. Ask yourself; if guns were permanently out of the picture, do you believe our nation's crime rate would fall? If you answered yes, you need a serious wake up call.
((A link to the news article about the Chinese man can be found here.))
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