| jigokutamago said: Maybe we need education. In my opinion changing laws can only change the form of the crime, but the only way to stop the thought of the crime is through eduction. Make it so that people are just and intelligent enough to not even think about committing a crime or have them have the mental fortitude to be able to control any vile thoughts. |
This.
I am not a citizen of the US. We have very diffrent gun laws were I'm from. It's very hard for the average citizen to obtain firearms, especially handguns. You need to have a gun license and be a certified Hunter or being part of a gun club, for sport shooting. There are diffrent permits, the most basic one allows for ownership, but not carriyng or use. Number and kind of weapons that can be obtained are regulated by this permit and have to be registered before being bought. There is a diffrent permit for actually carrying the weapon. This one has to be renewed every three years and a test has to be taken every time. Further, if the applicant is under 25 years old a phych evaluation is mandatory, No firearms are allowed for people under 18 years, and also no firearms for people that either have a diagnosed mental illness or a criminal record. Thats just a little part of our gunlaw and only the part I'm familiar with.
Basically if you live in a city, policemen are the only people with guns around and they usually don't have permit to carry concealed.
The result is that we don't have much gun crime. We still have awful stabbings, beatings and axemurders. The positive is that other weapons are usually more survivable than guns, so you tend to have less casualties overall. Also it's really fucking hard to have a driveby stabbing.
However if you have a gunfree zone without any protection at all in an aeria with laxer gun laws, you're basically just sitting ducks ans need armed guards, even I can see that.
But in the end, the only thing that can really help violent and organized crime is getting people proper education and treating them with dignity.
