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The Department of Justice released the result of a 2016 study to determine where criminals obtained their guns, and what types of guns were used, when the guns were possessed during the commission of the offense. These are the highlights taken right out of the report. Are you shocked to see that 90% of the guns possessed during the commission of a crime weren't obtained through retail sources? And of that, only 1.3% of the retail-purchased guns were used in the crime. Yet it's becoming harder and harder for law abiding citizens to purchase them. "Gun Control" continues to target the retail purchase and regulation of firearms...yet that's not where the criminals are getting them. Remember the "Gun Show Loop Hole" that was supposedly allowing everyone to run umuck of the gun laws (there is no such loop hole, btw)? It seems that less than 1% of these criminals were in possession a gun purchased at a gun show.
The full study is here: https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/suficspi16.pdf
I'm just venting... but criminals are criminals because they DON'T FOLLOW THE LAWS. So making MORE LAWS only impacts people like me who have to work really hard to follow them. On top of that, the laws that keep getting shoved into being, aren't even addressing 98% of problem.
Let's stop making guns more illegal, and let's make MURDER illegal. Or we can make ROBBERY illegal. Or... oh wait.
I'll leave you with this: Legally and responsibly armed citizens have, in a major way, been a POSITIVE for a peaceful society. They have stopped the senseless killing of others, protected themselves, and saved the lives of our men and women in Law Enforcement who are being aggressively targeted by some very bad people. Legally and responsibly armed citizens are a deterrent to criminal activity. Disarmed and helpless people are a target and a petri dish where the criminal element can thrive.
The full study is here: https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/suficspi16.pdf
I'm just venting... but criminals are criminals because they DON'T FOLLOW THE LAWS. So making MORE LAWS only impacts people like me who have to work really hard to follow them. On top of that, the laws that keep getting shoved into being, aren't even addressing 98% of problem.
Let's stop making guns more illegal, and let's make MURDER illegal. Or we can make ROBBERY illegal. Or... oh wait.
I'll leave you with this: Legally and responsibly armed citizens have, in a major way, been a POSITIVE for a peaceful society. They have stopped the senseless killing of others, protected themselves, and saved the lives of our men and women in Law Enforcement who are being aggressively targeted by some very bad people. Legally and responsibly armed citizens are a deterrent to criminal activity. Disarmed and helpless people are a target and a petri dish where the criminal element can thrive.