Quote Originally Posted by Breukelen advocaat
I'm curious as to why you feel this way. We're doing doing much better, in terms of crime rates, than most of the states where guns are less regulated. New York City is very safe these days. Basically, more guns equals more crime.
2nd Ammendment gurantees us the right to keep and bear firearms, and there is no evidence that restricting guns will lower the crime rate. A thief or murderer will still rob and kill, just by using other means.
Should we ban cars, because morons maim and kill while driving drunk? ...while evading police? ...while putting on make-up, or eating, or on the cell phone?
As with guns, it's not the car that kills folks, it's the irresponsible driver. And there's not even a Z28 Ammendment. (the right to keep and drive two-ton weapons)

The DC Gun Ban:

"Today, gun control makes people demonstrably less safe-- as any honest examination of criminal statistics reveals. In his book "More Guns, Less Crime," scholar John Lott demolishes the myth that gun control reduces crime. On the contrary, Lott shows that cities with strict gun control--like Washington DC--experience higher rates of murder and violent crime. It is no coincidence that violent crime flourishes in the nation's capital, where the individual's right to defend himself has been most severely curtailed.

Understand that residents of DC can be convicted of a felony and put in prison simply for having a gun in their home, even if they live in a very dangerous neighborhood. The DC gun ban is no joke, and the legal challenges to the ban are not simply academic exercises. People's lives and safety are at stake.

Gun control historically serves as a gateway to tyranny. Tyrants from Hitler to Mao to Stalin have sought to disarm their own citizens, for the simple reason that unarmed people are easier to control. Our Founders, having just expelled the British army, knew that the right to bear arms serves as the guardian of every other right. This is the principle so often ignored by both sides in the gun control debate. Only armed citizens can resist tyrannical government."

Quote Originally Posted by Breukelen advocaat
They bombed a recruitment center early this morning, but I doubt that citizens with guns would have been able to do much to prevent that.
Likely a member of code pink, but how does that figure into this discussion? I guess an armed citizen could have shot the sob as he rode off, tho.
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