I'm a psych major and I wouldn't be posting this information or my views if I wasn't a hundred percent sure that it was true. This is just one source of many, but for a forum I'm not going to waste my time doing research. I have planted the seed and it's up to you to decide whether or not it is worth it to YOU to find out the truth for yourself. (not just you bronco, but the plural "you")
I know all about correlation and the variables and this is one of the most credible sources.
So far we have looked at two
one showing that countries with higher gun control have fewer murders.
The second one is this one showing gun crime going down as gun control increases.
It IS a very complicated subject, but in this scenario it is much better to err on the cautious side than the other way around. At one point it was pretty much legal to murder people.
There are so many horror stories involving guns, and sometimes you really have to think about what is actually happening behind the scenes.
My GF's sister's old boyfriend from Colorado was a serial cat murderer (they found out later). He was a normal kid, but really fucked her up mentally. She got a call from the government recently saying that he had applied for a job as a border police and they wanted a recommendation.
People like this exist. The way gun laws are in this country actually makes murder legal in many many instances.
Some time ago a man saw two guys breaking into someone's house. He went over there with a shotgun, without calling the cops beforehand, and killed them both. This is not right. Even by religious standards, noone is allowed to take the life of another.
A 7 year old shot himself in the face recently at a gun show when he was shooting an uzi!!
This kind of thing needs to end
