01-25-2018, 01:44 PM
(01-25-2018, 01:20 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I'll actually do you a favor and summarize here.
Most gun violence is perpetrated by hard core criminal recidivists. The study you tried to use against me acknowledges that only 20% of gun related violence is committed by people who lawfully owned the gun. We can therefore easily surmise that the vast majority of gun violence could be prevented by aggressively prosecuting criminals who illegally own firearms. This is not done, and I can tell you this from first hand experience. So, instead of rushing to write new laws every time something like this happens, try the novel approach of actual enforcing the ones on the books first.
Actually you don't "prevent" a crime by punishing someone AFTER the crime has already happened.
Right now we can not aggressively prosecute criminals who illegally own firearms because the police can not do anything to a criminal openly carrying his gun on the way to commit a crime.
We prevent people from being killed by bad drivers by making making them show proof of training and ownership BEFORE anyone is killed. That is what we need to do with guns. If a person wants to openly carry a gun in public then they should be required to be able to show some proof that they legally own that gun and have been trained and licensed to carry it.
And finally your anecdotal evidence about criminals in possession of fire arms doesn't carry any weight with me. Here where I live gun possession by a criminal is prosecuted to the fullest. What do they do with a convicted felon in possession of a firearm where you work?
