Banning guns: It's a good thing
There are 10
Really Good Reasons to Ban Guns:
1. Guns are used in self-defense more than 2 million
times a year. However, this makes the attempted crime a
"nonevent,'' which necessarily complicates the police
investigation. Without civilian ownership of guns, these police
investigations would not have been compromised. Civilians should leave
crime prevention to the police, who are properly equipped to
investigate following the crime's completion.
2. Some .004 percent of guns are used in crime each
year. This is way too high. All guns should be banned.
3. In 98 percent of civilian gun defenses, no shot
is fired. If you are not going to fire a shot, you clearly don't need
a gun. Banning guns will prevent these unnecessary defenses.
4. The high crime rate in Washington, D.C., is
caused by the cowardly migration of criminals from gun havens like
Virginia, in order to avoid armed householders and concealed-carry
civilians. This criminal migration is detrimental to helpless unarmed
citizens in no-gun areas.
5. Two relatively small and geographically
restricted groups, inner-city gangs and drug dealers, consistently
commit the majority of gun crimes. The best way to prevent this is by
denying guns to all law-abiding people everywhere.
6. No woman needs to protect herself from rape,
assault or murder. The police will protect her by investigating the
crime after the fact. Police paperwork is all the protection anyone
really needs.
7. Gun owners are disrespectful of authority. Their
failure to completely and absolutely trust and depend on the
authorities is excessive democracy and sends a bad message to
children.
8. Guns owners engaging in self-defense are taking
the law into their own hands, and only the police and criminals have
the right to take the law into their own hands.
9. Children and young people should remain ignorant
about guns. Real guns and real gun knowledge dissipates the fantasies
created by violent video games and TV.
10. Guns reduce people's reliance on the police and
government, which fosters a mistaken belief in "rights.''
Banning guns will help to establish the order the
authorities want. This is good.
Bob Crawford
Akron |
