As you know, with living in Illinois, we have an exceptionaly irrational outlook on guns. An outlook brought forth by the good citizens of Chicago. Chicago influences the laws on our guns greatly. This passage is to help those people better understand why the NRA exists and why so many people dont agree with the laws created on guns.
There are forty eight states in america that allow some sort of concealment of weapons. the two that dont? Illinois and Wisconsin. That in itself is good enough reason for our state government to pass concealment laws. Hello! Its working for everyone else oviously.
Why does it work for everyone else? Crime rates have fallen in other states as a result of concealment laws. Makes since. A robber is less likely to to rob a store or an indivigual knowing that they might just shoot back. And for that matter any sort of robbery is less likely for a robber knowing that theres a good chance some ones going to shoot back.
As if limiting our gun rights isnt bad enough, some organizations are trying to take away our guns altogether. The people who want that kind of band have never shot a gun in their life. Guns are apart of our culture. Guns arent onlly used for killing people. They are many other fun ways to use guns. I have persionally shot hand guns weekend in and weekend out for the past two years and never once was a man killed at these shoots. People also use guns for trap shooting which is challenging and quite stress relieveing i might ad. Over three thousand deer were killed with firearms last year in illinois alone. Fifty percent lets say were female. Thats fifteen hundred deer that are able to have up to three offspring. If you average two offspring a year, thats an extra thirty thousand deer running around illinois in a ten year stretch. If guns were takin away there would be more lifes lost to deer related accidents as opposed to murders.
Increased gun control laws equals increased car wrecks, increased crime rates, and decreased civilian happiness. End of story
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Well, first I wanted to ask how car wrecks are increased due to gun control? I agree that they really have no really good reason not to allow people to carry around guns, but I also disagree. I think that people would take advantage of this. Especially if just anyone was able to get a firearm. Maybe if they had very strict rules, then it would be okay.
ReplyDeleteWell rodney to be honest im in the gray area on this one. My opinion on this is that the government should allow store managers, gas station clerks and such to carry a firearm during the evening and late night hours. I say this because most robberies of stores occur at night time when there aren't many witnesses. On the other hand i do believe that if the government allowed this, people would take advantage of it. People would start taking law and justice into there own hands which would create a whole other list of problems.
ReplyDeletei feel that gun laws should allow for business clerks with late evening work hours to hold a gun on business property only. I disagree with the walking around with a concealed weapon. People will take advantage of this law. This is a fairly new issue in my opinion just stupid to think that it is legal to carry a weapon around with you at all times. There is no point, it's not like your life is in danger 24/7, especially in central illinois. This is an issue that will never pass and if so it is too soon to pass it.
ReplyDeleteRodney, I appreciate your personal connection to this topic.
ReplyDeleteNow, for these blogs, I want you to do a little research. If you're going to put a controversial view out there, let's make sure it's supported by some evidence. Like this sentence: "The people who want that kind of band have never shot a gun in their life" is probably not true. (I have shot guns...)
I can tell I'm going to have to work really hard to influence you with my liberal agenda! :)