Serious discussion on Gun Control
I see random headlines constantly that read "tougher play on Gun Control", "tough stance on Gun Control", "Rethink Gun Control". And I completely, Agree. We need a tougher and rethought stance on Gun Control - the removal of it. For decades America has sought to stop violence of a free society by putting restrictions on guns, most recently pimping a tragedy for their benefits.
The fact of the matter is that gun crimes are down historically, in fact they've been going down since the mid-1990s. And in the 1990's gun related homicides peaked just two years after the original "Assault Weapons Ban" went into effect. Pretty much proving that the ban had little if any impact on gun homicides.
What we should be doing is rethinking why we have attempted to address a symptom and never the cause. Violence is prevalent in a large amount of American society but we refuse to address it. People, children are murdered daily in city streets but rarely talked about. They are black. Black people routinely are gunned down by black people day in and day out within America but it is never addressed. Instead of tackling this problem we impose absurd gun laws on 99.9% of society that would never use their weapons in a homicide, ever. America, rethink gun laws..rethink why you have them at all. The law abiding citizen is not your problem, the unaccountable individual is. Just ask the 19 black people shot by a black man in New Orleans on Mothers Day.
The fact of the matter is that gun crimes are down historically, in fact they've been going down since the mid-1990s. And in the 1990's gun related homicides peaked just two years after the original "Assault Weapons Ban" went into effect. Pretty much proving that the ban had little if any impact on gun homicides.
What we should be doing is rethinking why we have attempted to address a symptom and never the cause. Violence is prevalent in a large amount of American society but we refuse to address it. People, children are murdered daily in city streets but rarely talked about. They are black. Black people routinely are gunned down by black people day in and day out within America but it is never addressed. Instead of tackling this problem we impose absurd gun laws on 99.9% of society that would never use their weapons in a homicide, ever. America, rethink gun laws..rethink why you have them at all. The law abiding citizen is not your problem, the unaccountable individual is. Just ask the 19 black people shot by a black man in New Orleans on Mothers Day.
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