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I don't want to get into that argument. I'm not actually interested in whether murder rates are up or down with gun laws.
Why not? Isn't that the major point for gun control: a strong correlation between decreased crime rates and gun legislation?
Well then, the police should be fixed and not guns.
The police work how they're intended to work. They're loyalties are with the government, which is restricted by the constitution. This doesn't mean they have any direct obligation to the people, though. Guns should also work how they were intended.
They're newsworthy because so few of them happen.
I think it's more accurate to say they're newsworthy because few of them are reported by the national media. I see them at least once every few months here in Pennsylvania. Especially old ladies protecting themselves from "thugs."
If cars did nothing but kill people, yes. Since they have dual uses, it becomes an individual responsibility. But guns? Carrying in public has literally one outcome: someone being hurt. Having them for hunting or shooting practice can be reasonably controlled without that.
Despite what you might think, guns act as a deterrent rather than a weapon. If somebody has a gun, they don't necessary have to shoot it. Furthermore, the presence of guns makes the job of a criminal so much harder, as they're unpredictable targets (the people.)
You're confusing the Constitution with morality. What if the consitution is wrong?
Morality can be misleading. Five-hundred years ago the protestant sects said it was moral to burn witches. For a constitutional republic, the constitution is key to restricting the government from abusing the people, and hence when discussing politics and legislature, it's the key document in which we must follow. Otherwise we'd fall into a mobocracy, oligarchy, or anarchy. Republics are nice things, but we always have to be vigilant in maintaining them.
Also what does government size have to do with morality? There is an extremely simple fix for government misconduct - release fucking everything. Absolutely every email, document, minutes or file needs to be public.
If a government is powerful enough that's not possible. The federal government of the U.S is one of the most powerful of the world and it constantly impedes on the rights of the autonomous states and peoples, when it has the support to do so. I won't let the freedom given to me by my forefathers fall so gently. I suppose it only makes sense to Americans and constitutionalists though.
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