It's actually a much smaller problem than the media attention to it indicates.Michellebell wrote:I think statistics supports this view, but common sense tells me that the legal NRA members and people who have legally acquired guns and know how to use them properly for self-defense are generally good, honest, law-abiding citizens. It's the people who illegally use guns that are the problem. I do find it very believable that burglaries and rapes are deterred by the fear of knowing that many people have guns to defend themselves.
I don't know how to fix the problem though. I have never been attached to guns as I shared earlier, but I don't see how we can talk about any logical solution for gun control that'll solve this problem. Even if every gun were to vanish, people who want to kill masses of people can just use a car or truck to easily plow through a crowd, as we've also seen happen recently.
It is definitely a culture problem but I don't know how we could go about making it better.
A far bigger problem, but still one that affects a tiny section of the population, is blacks killing one another in the inner cities. Chicago alone accounts for more deaths in any given month than the mass shooting two days ago.
And if every gun were to vanish, then women would be far more likely to be raped because the average man has more physical strength than 99.9% of all women. Would that really be an improvement?