Why is it that the second someone uses a gun to commit a horrible crime, everyone grabs a microphone and screams about gun control? Now I will be the first to say that Arizona is being too relaxed with their gun laws. Every healthy, law abiding citizen in this country should be allowed to carry a firearm, open or concealed, for their protection. However, they need to be granted a permit or license through the state that goes into the database so that the police know you have it, they know which gun you have, and your fingerprints are bound to those ballistics. This also helps filter out the mentally ill. Arizona allowing people to just carry is a terrible idea.
With that said, criminals don't give a shit about gun laws either way. The general public thinks that laws in place and "No Weapons Allowed" signs work and everyone listens, but they don't. To stricken gun control is to disarm the law abiding public, scary notion.
The fact is that guns do not kill people, people kill people. To say guns kill people is like saying that pencils make spelling mistakes. The world is scary, absolutely no doubt about that, but the public goes into a fear panic and screams gun control. Do people not realise that the police are under NO obligation to protect them? An officer can walk right past a robbery in progress, assault, even a homicide and do NOTHING, and that is his right so says the supreme court. Our citizens need to wake up and realise the only one with a duty to protect them is THEM.
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