This doesn't make any sense, does it? More Guns, Less Crime?

Question

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55288

Answer 1

Let see. Pretend you are a criminal and you are looking for your next victim. You see two little old ladies walking separately down the street.

One has a National Rifle Associate(NRA) patch on her bulging purse.

The other one has a "I support the Brady Bill" (control bill).

Everything being the same, who are you going to mug. Annie Oakley and her NRA .38 Special or the Gun Control advocate?

Or you can pretend you are in a store and another customer pulls out a gun.

You can hope that your whining, crying, and begging will convince him to leave you as a potential witness against him or you can take cover with your legally carried 9 mm and defend yourself with your Constitutional rights!

If you REALLY believe the potential of the victim having a gun does not cause the criminal to at least pause, then post a sign in your front yard that says:

"NO GUNS ALLOWED IN THIS HOUSE"

And see whether it is a better method than a sign that says:

"Trespassers will be shot! Questions asked later."

Answer 2

It's another way of saying "God didn't make all men equal, Sam Colt did."

It's really obvious that it does make sense. When you hear the term "domestic violence", you can't tell me you don't get an image of a large man beating up a tiny woman.

Now, THINK.

What would the effect of that woman in your image being armed with a 9mm that she was ready to use?

If you can understand that, you might be ready to think about why Washington DC has such a high crime rate, despite those gun laws and a very high police-per-capita ratio, compared to Dodge City, Kansas back before they had ANY laws and law enforcement.

The fact is that the "wild west" was positively TAME compared to your cities with liberal views on gun control.

Suze: You may not want to carry a gun, and that's your privilege, your right, your choice, but you'd be safer if every other person did.

Oh, and none of this is about hunting. That's not what the second amendment is about, that's not what the gun advocates are about, and it's not what you want to ban. If you outlawed all hunting tomorrow, the discussion continues uninterrupted.

Answer 3

Yes, it does. Please let me clarify: If the law abiding citizens are disarmed; every criminal or criminal minded person would know and they will prey on this, The criminal will not disarm, it is the same as when they outlawed Marijuana, it only made the grower and seller much richer and in fact the amount of usage more than qudrupilled since then. If every Law abiding citizen took the Traing to permit to carry and use the Fire Arm Safely, and Every Law abiding citizen 20 yrs and up carried Not concealed, but in a holster on their side
or shoulder; think about it, Thugs, GangBangers, Rapists, and Mass murderers (Colorado,Virgina,Texas...Ect...) would go away very quikly and crime rate will drop in record numbers as ONE:They will see the Armed Citizens and decide it is not a smart thing to do in commiting a crime, or TWO:If they are dumb enough to try it, then certainly an Armed Law Abiding citizen will shoot them and thus eliminate the threat. Either way, there is absolutely no doubt that the crime rate will deminish significantly. "If several or a majority of College students were carrying a gun, then Cho would never have killed as many as he did; and we would not be mourning such a tragedy in our country. If teachers and Faculty were Armed, then School Shootings would all but cease, or in the least, the number of casualties would be far fewer.

Answer 4

I am relatively new here and have been amazed at some of the questions people have agreed with, which have been extremely left. This is great. Every single answer is on point. As the ole addage goes, if guns were banned only the criminals would have them. Here are people ready to stand up for their rights and their family's protection. If I could rate, all would get thumbs up!

edit: should have read all. There is one exception.

Edit 2: Suze, what does being a female have to do with guns? Are we incapable of lining up a site and pulling the trigger? As a female I feel it is smart to carry a weapon. At 5'3" and 95 lbs., I think a 9 mm could protect me a lot better than punch.

Answer 5

It makes perfect sense. Think about this: You are a criminal (hypothetically, I'm not saying YOU are a criminal). You get a gun from your buddy (not hard to do when you are a crimnial) and you want to go rob someone. You are staking out two houses. You find out that the house on the left has two adults and two children and no handguns-the house on the right has two adults two children one handgun and a rifle.

Which house do you break into?

THAT is why more guns means less crime. Honest citizens are not going to go around shooting people for no reason, but criminals will-why not give honest responsible citizens guns to protect themselves?

Not only do you have the right to bear arms (guns), but you have the responsiblity to be ever vigilant in the protection of yourself and your property. If everyone did both of those things, crime would go down everywhere.

Answer 6

The gun for gun mentality is not a serious solution.
As a female, carrying a gun is NOT AN OPTION.

What needs to be addressed is the huge number of Automatic & Semi-Automatic weapons being imported into USA from China as one source, along with other countries.
These weapons serve one purpose only and that's to kill PEOPLE. Nobody is going after Duck or Deer with an Uzi, Glock or an AK 47. They go after human prey.

Answer 7

Although I am reticent to post Conservative sites or use their information this was the first site (of many) that I saw which compares countries in which most of the populace is very well armed with murder and crime rates of countries which have some gun control. Statistics world wide establish that there is less crime (and in particular murder) in a country where the entire populace is expected to be armed than in countries with gun control. Israel and Switzerland are prime examples of this.

Answer 8

Just look at the crime rate in the western states in the 1800's.

Crime was almost non existant.

Why?

Because almost every male was a veteran of the civil war and all males and most females carrried weapons at all times.

Who's gonna try and rob a war veteran who they know is armed ?

Those who did commit crimes, knew punishment would be swift and harsh.

This at at the same time that in the eastern states, even with most males being civil war veterans, but people not being armed, that crime rates soared.

Answer 9

Makes perfect sense to me. What person is going to try to rob a house when they know for a fact that the owner has a gun.

Answer 10

Makes perfect sense...

Most criminals are not nihilistic, they don't want to die. Given a choice between a potential victim that is armed and one they have excellent reason to believe is unarmed...

...they'll go for the easier target.

Additionally, more armed people tend to be more knowledgeable about what it takes to responsibly own a gun and are more likely to point out to other people that really shouldn't have one...