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Mummelmann on 21 December 2012
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sc94597 said:
Mummelmann said:
While the constitution may state that everyone has the right to bear arms, it does not state that its a good idea for everyone to bear arms.
The whole logic of more guns = less shooting is also puzzling to me.
Maybe I'm just stupid, or maybe I'm a killer in the making since I've played video games my entire life.

The framers of the constitution believed that all sane, law-abiding men had the DUTY to own guns. Now of course, the framers aren't always right, but that was their mindset when they wrote the constitution. So it's understandable that the United States is the way it is today, considering the beliefs of the framers and hence the beliefs of the populous. More guns doesn't mean less shooting. More guns means less crime. Criminals are deterred from breaking into people's homes and attacking them when they know these people could have weapons. 

 

Or they bring bigger guns or more people with guns. If you arm the entire population, criminals aren't going to stop being criminals, they'll simply arm themselves heavier. In Brazil and Colombia when they first started battling the drug lords who owned huge plantations it was a relatively straightforward and simple corps of policmen with standard issue 9mm weapons and bullet-proof vests that made the raids.

The drug lords hired private armies to keep the police at bay, the police were forced to undergo more special training, hire consultants from the military and carry heavier weaponry do deal with this. The criminals cranked it up one more notch and on it went. Today you have heavily armored personel with 12.7mm machine guns, RPG's, hollow point ammunition and air support with helicopters sporting (and using) gattling guns with heavy caliber, the also simply bomb some of the plantations with incendiary grenades and rockets at times, leaving craters and entire regions looking like warzones.

Things escalate. The nuclear arms race during WWII, the Cold War, history is full of these stories and they show one thing; arming yourself more does not reduce hostility, nor does it deterr violence, it escalates the entire thing.

I think the NRA and US government should spend more time finding out what it is that makes their society so prone to situations like these, simply handing everyone and their grandmother a firearm is stone age mentality at best, decidedly fatal for many more children and adults at worst.