Yes it would be absolutely absurd for governments to ban cars to prevent car deaths, because in the USA it is necessary tool for many people to get groceries, or go to work, etc. Cars are a necessary form of travel (better public/mass transport investments would help fix this, since that’s something the US as a whole is MAJORLY lacking, but I digress).
However, we do regulate car ownership pretty heavily. Cars require license plates and annual registration. We require to have our license with us at all times when we operate them. We require driving tests even when we move to a new state, because we have to adhere to their laws in registration.
Gun ownership, not so much. I got a gun as a gift not too long ago. As far as anykne is concerned, I don’t own one. But it’s in my closet. My brother bought it online.
Charlie made this statement, just for the record, in response to a question referencing school shootings, where these aren’t bystanders of gang violence, but the literal targets.
You know the leading cause of death of school children in the US?
Guns ARE heavily regulated, in fact to a degree that is easily arguable to be unconstitutional.
There's this false idea that's pushed by media that Europeans and even some Americans believe that you can just walk in with an ID into a gun shop and walk out with an AR-15 as easy as buying a birthday cake from the grocery.
We're not even allowed to own machine guns anymore when back in the day the tommy gun was actually marketed to farmers as a great defense weapon against bandits.
The most regulated cities in America are the most dangerous with guns.
Chicago, no guns allowed. New York City, no guns allowed....would you feel safer there or any of the other states and cities that have much laxer gun laws?
The reason cities have a gun problem is that, in a large part, the gun regulations are so loose.
Take Chicago, for instance. Big liberal city, gun free zones, etc. but why do we have a gun problem? Well…Indiana is right there, a state with much looser gun restrictions. You can get there with a $10 train ticket. You can buy a gun, bring it back to Chicago, and there you go. Nobody is ever the wiser.
Do you think these criminals in Chicago are getting their guns illegally? They aren’t. They’re just going to a state that is mere minutes away, making a legal purchase, and bringing them back
If Chicago allowed as lax of gun laws as Arizona or South Carolina, and every sane law abiding citizen easily got a gun, that city would be 10 times safer in a matter of days
You bring up a good point worth discussing.
Yes it would be absolutely absurd for governments to ban cars to prevent car deaths, because in the USA it is necessary tool for many people to get groceries, or go to work, etc. Cars are a necessary form of travel (better public/mass transport investments would help fix this, since that’s something the US as a whole is MAJORLY lacking, but I digress).
However, we do regulate car ownership pretty heavily. Cars require license plates and annual registration. We require to have our license with us at all times when we operate them. We require driving tests even when we move to a new state, because we have to adhere to their laws in registration.
Gun ownership, not so much. I got a gun as a gift not too long ago. As far as anykne is concerned, I don’t own one. But it’s in my closet. My brother bought it online.
Charlie made this statement, just for the record, in response to a question referencing school shootings, where these aren’t bystanders of gang violence, but the literal targets.
You know the leading cause of death of school children in the US?
Guns ARE heavily regulated, in fact to a degree that is easily arguable to be unconstitutional.
There's this false idea that's pushed by media that Europeans and even some Americans believe that you can just walk in with an ID into a gun shop and walk out with an AR-15 as easy as buying a birthday cake from the grocery.
We're not even allowed to own machine guns anymore when back in the day the tommy gun was actually marketed to farmers as a great defense weapon against bandits.
The most regulated cities in America are the most dangerous with guns.
Chicago, no guns allowed. New York City, no guns allowed....would you feel safer there or any of the other states and cities that have much laxer gun laws?
The reason cities have a gun problem is that, in a large part, the gun regulations are so loose.
Take Chicago, for instance. Big liberal city, gun free zones, etc. but why do we have a gun problem? Well…Indiana is right there, a state with much looser gun restrictions. You can get there with a $10 train ticket. You can buy a gun, bring it back to Chicago, and there you go. Nobody is ever the wiser.
Do you think these criminals in Chicago are getting their guns illegally? They aren’t. They’re just going to a state that is mere minutes away, making a legal purchase, and bringing them back
Then why isn't Indiana known for its murder?
Because Indiana ISNT a gun free zone.
If Chicago allowed as lax of gun laws as Arizona or South Carolina, and every sane law abiding citizen easily got a gun, that city would be 10 times safer in a matter of days
Indianapolis has had similar murder rates to Chicago.
You’re comparing cities to states, instead of cities to cities.