No need, the poor minority recipients of your welfare state prison seem to be stealing them just fine in order to kill each other.
fact1: - According to the 1991 Survey of State Prison Inmates, among those inmates who possessed a handgun, 9% had acquired it through theft, and 28% had acquired it through an illegal market such as a drug dealer or fence, 10% had stolen at least one gun, and 11% had sold or traded stolen guns.
ojp.usdoj.gov
fact2: - From 1993 to 1997 --
* Eighty-nine percent of the victims of nonfatal gunshot wounds
from crime were male; 84% of firearm homicide victims were male,
according to the FBI's Supplementary Homicide Reports (SHR).
* Blacks made up 54% of the victims of nonfatal gunshot wounds from
crime and 54% of the homicide victims.
* Almost 1 in 5 victims of nonfatal gunshot wounds from crime were
Hispanic. Equivalent data for homicide victims are not available in
the SHR. According to the Vital Statistics, 18% of the homicide victims
were Hispanic.
Black males ages 15 to 24 made up 26% of all the victims of
nonfatal gunshot wounds from crime and 22% of the homicide victims.
Different sources of data on firearm
injury from crime show consistent
demographic patterns
A comparison of two sources of firearm homicide data to the CDC's
data on nonfatal firearm injury from crime shows similar demographic
patterns among victims. Black males are the most frequent victims of
firearm homicide and nonfatal firearm injury from crime. Young people
are also more frequently victims in all three sources. One explanation
of why older victims are more frequent in the homicide statistics is
that they are less able than younger victims to recover from gunshot
wounds.
ojp.usdoj.gov
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Now, what seems to go beyond anti-gun nuts like yourself, is that criminalizing gun ownership won't deter criminals from getting or using guns. By definition, criminals aren't deterred by considerations of legality. Besides, they're already breaking laws left and right.
fact3 - * 85% of firearm defendants were charged during 1998 with
unlawful possession. Seven percent were charged with unlawfully
receiving or transferring a firearm.
ojp.usdoj.gov
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Here's a very good overview of the situation, very even handed and impartial:
cs.cmu.edu
Here's a complementary piece on why you shouldn't reject self-defense: The police are NOT obligated to come to your aid:
freerepublic.com
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You are arguing from an unreasonable position. No reasonable gun owner is opposed to reasonable regulation of firearms as embodied in the majority of existing gun laws. ie. banning ownership of firearms by felons, minors, the mentally ill; and the banning of ownership of outright military weapons, such as assault rifles (properly defined, as many sport weapons fall under the over-broad definition; some classes of Olympic riflery fall into this class under some existing laws for example.) Ban guns and the only people who will have weapons will be criminals - and thats precisely what happened to Australia.
Derek |
