Billie, Rest up, regroup and come back to the table later.

The shootout in Tombstone is legend,... so is the Valentines day massacre...
Today we call that .... Tuesday.

Serowbot wrote on 03/02/22 at 08:35:29:

A-Yep in all the places where,
Firearms have been banned !

Okay.

Serowbot wrote on 03/02/22 at 08:35:29:


I’ve been to quite a few museums across the west and the consensus is the Wild West was never as violent as movies portray. The country had just come through a Civil War in which many participated or made preparations to do so which means many had experience using guns, some in actual war situations. While much of the land was not an official state so didn’t necessarily have the governmental structure, that doesn’t mean it was a preview of MadMax. You think a bunch of men with land, wives and children to protect were just gonna roll over? Not likely. (the disease of liberalism hadn’t come along yet)  Sure, there were basically what we would call organized crime today who took over areas, (sort of like modern day BLM movements) but much of the land was governed by locals who just wanted what most of us want. The good people who wanted peace and a chance at prosperity protected themselves with weapons.

I just read a stat that, from a daily average point of view, 316 people are shot in the USe Rey day. Ok, fine, but how many are shot by legally owned guns by citizens with no violent or criminal history? How many are used during the commission of a crime? Those would be valuable to see but not so easily found. My guess is an unbiased review of those stats would demonstrate an argument that restrictive gun laws would only impact those gun owners who are very unlikely to use a weapon with nefarious motives.

Mavigogun wrote on 03/03/22 at 05:39:28:

Okay.

no it won't stop gun crime, nothing will. But there areas where it will reduce crimes. Like kid is billed at school, goes home goes to get dads gun to show them all, oh no, guns are in a safe, no easy acsses maybe one less school shooting. Cop does a traffic stop, sir I see you have a gun, can I see your licence please...what's that you don't have one, that gun is confiscated, serving a warrant. Oh look guns, who are those? And what about recording serials in a database to track the history. Where did you get this, oh Tim bought it for you, now Tim can no longer buy guns.

Right now anyone can have a gun and there is nothing the cops can do, with licening that would give them power to remove those guns from bad guys

There is no quick or easy fix, the problem will not go away but there seems to be a lot of people of the option that if it won't 100%fix the problem it's not worth even trying, well I live in a country where it worked, it worked in the country next to us to and guns and gun crime  in the "real world" is not something that even crosses my mind these days, I like living where if someone cuts me of in traffic and I use my horn the though of them shooting me dosent cross my mind

I think I may have just worn out my "," button

Billynoneck wrote on 03/03/22 at 11:41:50:

So incredibly wrong.
As most of the things you say about firearms.