Re: Newspaper helps ensure safety of registered gun owners
Whether gun ownership has a positive or negative affect upon crime is often the result of local laws. For example, in New York, you have to have a permit to buy, you have to have a permit to carry. That is how this list got compiled in the first place. Knowing a home belongs to a registered gun owner will deter at least to knowledgeable criminals when the gun owner is home. However, it increases the chances of the home being broken into when the owner is not home. This is because the criminals know that in all likelihood, the home owner has not taken the gun with him, local law makes it too difficult.
Do you have any real data supporting this, or is this just some of your guesses? I would think most burglars would try to enter homes or businesses when no one is there. Armed or not it just seems like it would be easier to me if there was no one present. Unless you are breaking in for some crime like kidnapping where you would want contact with the resident. You are making this claim that burglars who are merely interested in valuables would chose to break into an occupied house simply because they don't have a gun? It seems like some really convoluted gun enthusiast logic to me. It completely violates the logic behind housitters, light timers, motion lights, and all sorts of other things designed to make it look like you are not home. Why do police recommend not advertising you are leaving as a way to reduce the likelihood of robbery when according to you criminals only care if you are home and have a gun?
But hey, maybe you have some statistics which show criminals don't care if you are home if you do not own a gun.
Now contrast that with places like Texas and Oklahoma. No permit is required to purchase a gun. So no such list can even be obtained. Further, there is not permit required to transport you guns. Oklahoma even has open carry now. So even if you know a particular home has a gun, you don't know if the owner took it with them or not.
yes, but this completely wrecks your whole claim that criminals are afraid of gun owners, and not that they want to avoid all contact with potential witnesses or people who might interfere with their robbery. Again, you are taking up completely contradictory sides of a story. Also, as far as i am aware robberies occur in those twop states regardless of the fact their might be a gun. You are trying to take both sides of this. the first side is that knowing there is a gun there deters criminals, and the other is that knowing there is a gun there encourages criminals. It is just the same old republican idea that you will use blatantly contradictory statements depending on which benefits your claim of the moment. Now, if it is true that this list has encouraged criminals to break into gun owners houses, then it is clear that owning a gun does not deter criminals from breaking into your house. Either way i am pretty sure the presence of people in the house probably makes much more of a difference in whether or not your home is broken into.
You are correct, not having one doesn't allow it to be stolen. But it also leaves you more vulnerable to attack.
See, both sides of the coin in the same post. now all of a sudden having a gun is deterrent to an attack. Problem here is most burglars are not interested in attacking you. They are interested in stealing from the easiest possible targets and it is your presence that makes the theft harder. If a person breaks into your house while you are there for the purpose of attacking you then good luck in your shootout.
There is no realistic or possible way to remove all guns from American society.
However, there is clear evidence that the banning of guns in industrialized countries with a well established government and police force reduces homicides and gun injuries by at least 80 percent or more. the US ranks up there with south american countries with major drug trafficking problems in the number of homicides and gun fatalities and injuries. Where european countries and asian countries with Gun bans have homicide and murder rates far below the US. Even Isreal, a country which sees almost constant terrorism and attacks from all around them has much lower homicide and gun injury rates. So their is actually evidence that clearly shows the banning or restriction of guns actually makes the people of the country far less likely to be murdered in general, or even injured or killed by a gun.
So you can post all you want about people not having them, rant all you want about taking them away, but keep in mind, it ain't going to happen, at least not in our lifetimes.
Again, that is an opinion and not a fact. they are quite capable of banning guns in america, or regulating them by need.
And if you think they should be taken away and advocate for others to do it, I want to see you personally and anyone else calling for removing them, amongst those who come for mine.
If they do i will ask them to give me permission to go take your gun. Your gun does not frighten me in the slightest tough guy. of course, the police will probably end up prying it from your cold dead hands, and i won't be crying over one more violent person meeting their end. I just don't really care that you have a gun no matter how frightened you happen to be.
If you are unwilling to risk yourself for you belief, what right do you have to demand that others risk their lives for your beliefs?
As much as i would love to see the look on your face as i take your gun out of your hands, I don't think that would be legal even if they were to ban them. I also don't see myself becoming a cop in that time, so it really is not my choice in that matter. If they want to let me come take your gun if they ban them i would think it would be amusing for all of us except you to see me do so. however, the reality is that many heavily armed people will descend upon you and strip the gun from you probably at a time when you are least prepared to defend yourself. At which point they will arrest you and toss you in prison for whatever the charge becomes for illegally possessing a firearm. i know the gun makes you feel safe, but there are a whole lot more of them than there are of you, and they have more bullets, better equipment, and lots more strength on their side. You can be as tough as you want with your gun, but they will win. i will enjoy watching it on the news.
