Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: DEMOCRATIC PARTY PLATFORM 2008 ON GUN CONTROL [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Vulnerable members of our society deserve all the protection we can give them- whether that's the mentally ill, children, or the poor (to name three.) However, I don't believe removing the rights of others is an appropriate avenue to take, just for their sake. It doesn't take a gun to abuse a child or the mentally ill.
How do you propose to protect the mentally ill and other vulnerable members of our society against the violence of folks like Zimmerman? If his story has any truth in it at all, he thought he WAS protecting the vulnerable when in fact he was shooting a vulnerable member of our society.
Obviously, if the crime level is higher than it has been since 1969 and yet our gun laws have become increasingly permissive with the blessings of the Supreme Court, then it appears that laxer gun laws lead to more crime or at least correlate with more crime. So, if your statement is true then, seems to me that is an argument in favor of tightening gun controls.
I think it should be a local issue. I also think that gun permits should be issued locally and guns for which no local permit has been issued should be illegal if carried other than in a locked box in the trunk of a car.