I have asked people who want more gun control why they think it would work, and I never get an answer. They pretty much believe that something is better than nothing.
Really? They never think it through. The mass shootings have people on edge, yet people don’t think of the difference between a mass shooter and a criminal. And it’s a big difference.
Mass shooters are only interested in getting their names in the headlines and going out in a blaze of glory doing it, insane as that thinking is. It is obvious that getting away with the shooting is never in mind when they commit these types of shootings. No amount of laws or gun restrictions is going to deter somebody who is planning on dying in the end anyway.
Who benefits from this? The career criminals don’t care about laws and restrictions either.
The only people the stricter gun laws would affect are the legal gun owners trying to protect themselves or others. Criminals would feel so much better if they didn’t have to worry that somebody might have a weapon.
Think of the laws made to protect people over the years. Like taking away a DUI-convicted person’s driver’s license so that he or she can’t drive. How well has that worked out? A drunk driver doesn’t go out to hurt people, though a criminal does. So does the criminal worry about new laws and regulation?
Since the 1966 Texas tower shooting, there have been about 700 victims from 129 shooters. Does making laws to try and curb those people make sense if those laws take away over 200 million legal gun owners’ weapons?
John Everest
Farmington
