The theory being pushed is there are too many guns on the streets, but the guns on the streets are not the problem. The problem stems from too many criminals on the streets of America, many placed there by the revolving prison doors that, for no logical reason, dump violent criminals back onto the streets without so much as a thank you.
The revolving doors are a direct result of switching from a punishment system of incarceration to one of “rehabilitation” to a system where the comfort of the prisons became more important to the justice system than the safety of the law-abiding population. If we have a crime problem on America’s streets, then perhaps the problem lies with the legislatures that bend over backward to see to the comfort and safety of the violent criminals instead of their sworn responsibility to see to the safety of the citizens.
Rehabilitation has been proved to be an abject failure, and the murders, rapes and all other violent criminal acts lie solely at the feet of the legislators who refuse to correct bad laws. The residents of the state of Colorado need firearms in their possession to defend themselves from the violent criminals who are repeatedly turned loose on the population. With a known 80 million-plus registered gun owners in America and no statistical evidence to show a crime rate in that group above 0.0001 percent of registered gun owners committing any violent crimes, the firearms are not the problem.
Drew Dickey
Clifton
