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Forums - General Discussion - 6 police officers shot; 3 dead in Baton Rouge

Dunban67 on 20 July 2016
Machiavellian said:
Dunban67 said:

I would like to see the stat because gun violence by non registeed and illegal gun owners is many multiples higher than registered gun owners-   If you are not able to find federal stats on that i bet you could probably find them in a  cross section of metro areas in the us -   By definition a registered gun owner is  typically going to be much more careful w their own gun as it would easily be tracked back to them if they used it in the commission of a crime-  Matter of fact gun violence by registered gun owner is prob among the lowest  unless you are counting self inflicted possibly- but i am talking criminal gun violence, guns used (fired or not) in the commission of a crime etc

I am talking about gun violence period.  It matters not if it's criminal. Why even limit the stat to just that since we are talking about violence as a whole.  The need to use a gun to solve every situation is the reason we have so many gun violent deaths in the US.  Also once you purchase a gun, what stops you from just filing the serial numbers off the gun so it cannot be tracked.  Once you purchase a gun there is nothing that like a driver license where you have to renew your license.  Anyone can purchase hundreds of guns, file away their serial numbers and resale them however they please and their is no system in place to check if the person is still in possession of their guns.

In any event/scenario the instances of gun violence by registered gun owners is many multiples lower than violence by non registered and illegally owned guns - that is my point-   So if owning guns becomes illegal in the Us then only criminals will have them-    If they can t/don t crack down on the illegally owned and used guns out there now then how would they going to do so with new laws-   I agree thheir needs t be a much better system for gun ownership in the US and if only law abiding citezens could onw guns that would be a huge start