the worse part about it is the politicians on both sides love to politicize GUNS
really there's only one side that is getting billions poured on it to ensure guns are more ubiquitous than smarties.
the other gets a pile of political traction out of making a point of that fact. it's the gift that gives to both, though only one gets the loot.
I know my AR never climbed out of my gun locker and killed anyone and that bad people have access to guns easier than people who actully follow the law like myself
why do they have such easy access to guns ? who is manufacturing all the illegal firearms ? it's time the manufacturers were made to answer that. are they selling direct into the black market ?
we all focus on the "bad" guys. the truth is the most horrendous shootings were committed with legally acquired firearms.
where i am there has been an alarming amount of gang theft activity targeting homes with weapons in particular. the guns themselves are the theft target, usually it's all they steal. it used to be a firearm bought safety, now it's making folks targets. the police are freaking out about it.
if they cant get a gun they will get a bus or a car ,
a guy here just drove into a daycare with a city bus. there was also a deranged idiot who drove a van down a sidewalk. the only positive to that is they would have killed far more with a gun than with the vehicles.
at the end of the day homicide is homicide and carries the same penalty whether you shoot someone or bore them to death.
as far as Giuliani and stop and frisk did work it was stopped because it was considered Racial profiling and a federal judge stopped it while bloomberg was mayor yet the same people who complained about stop and frisk are the same people crying for more gun control.
every bit is true. we keep taking away all the enforcement tools that work. sometimes you need to do uncomfortable things to be safe and healthy.
at present we have two family that can't get a firearm. both got popped for growing before legal. one was even in a grey area and was at least partially licensed.
neither were armed or had a firearm in relation to the grow. all their guns were proper stored in locked gun safes. the police raided both homes and confiscated them all.
even now after legal they still can't get a firearm legally. even if they get their records expunged. it's totally backwards.