Your Gun Control Laws

[*michaelsean*]

(10-04-2017, 06:40 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Respect the man's service, but how strong is your argument when you open it with a blatant lie.  About 2/3's of gun related deaths are suicides.  A suicide is not gun violence any more than hanging yourself is rope violence or taking a fistful of Xanax is pill violence.  This kind of disingenuous debate on this subject is why gun owners or pro 2A types have zero trust in the other sides position or motivation.


It's actually a third that die due to gun violence.  Of that third the vast majority of the victims of gun violence are criminals being targeted by other criminals.  It is contradictory, at best, to discuss the need to reduce gun violence while at the same time reducing prison sentences for violent offenders.  We actually do something to bring down those numbers, it's called imprisoning criminals.  Consequently, the numbers have dropped steadily pretty much every years since 1992.  The now rise in crime can be directly attributed to soft on crime laws and politicians.  It cannot be a coincidence that a 25 year trend is suddenly no longer in effect after pro criminal laws are passed in many left leaning states.  Maybe Jimmy Kimmel should have been railing against all the Democrats who drafted these soft on crime laws?

Yeah if your prisons are overcrowded, the violent offenders get out last.