Reuters epiphany: Gun owners “not just urban criminals and drug dealers”

by Infidelesto on March 12, 2008 · Comments

A moment of clarity for the MSM.

Reuters
The American affinity for guns may puzzle foreigners who link high ownership rates and liberal gun ownership laws to the 84 gun deaths and 34 gun homicides that occur in the United States each day and wonder why gun control is not an issue in the U.S. presidential election.

The owners are not just urban criminals and drug dealers. There are hunters and home security advocates, and then there are the gun collectors.

“People are ‘Oh, you collect guns, you must be bad.’ That’s nonsense. Gun collectors aren’t criminals, they are nobody to be frightened of,” says Black, one of several hobby collectors in this small Arizona town.

“I love machinery, and I love history, and history was written with firearms,” he said. “They were probably the most spectacular things ever built.”

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  • Unknown
    "but I feel very strongly that guns need to be outlawed in the USA completely. If guns are removed from the public, it will be much easier to identify criminals with guns … primarily because only criminals will own guns."

    FIRST off disarming EVERY citizen in the United States of America IS against the law. Any law abiding citizen has a right to own a gun so long as it is LEGAL.

    SECONDLY: It would actually cause MORE bloodshed in an attempt to disarm EVERYONE in America than it would to actually allow the use of LEGAL firearms.

    The fact that you turned to some pop-culture idiotic comedian to back your political theory up proves that you have no solid REASONING in your empty head!

    I suppose you will turn on MTV for your next response.
  • Dave
    The problem as england and several other countries are finding out is that outlawing guns doesnt work. England has more gun crime now than they had 15 years ago and guns have been illegal the whole time. Criminals dont care about the law. Hence what makes them criminals. Ill be damned if someone is going to tell me a military veteran and former federal law enforcement that I cant have a gun in my own home to shoot a tresspasser. Im law abiding trained and hey on top of that I like to hunt. Why shouldnt I be allowed to have a gun or several. Im sure if someone breaks into your house kills your family when you could have done something if only you had a gun you will change your mind.
  • The fact that many gun owners are law abiding citizens doesn't justify the fact that guns are so freely bought and sold in the USA. I am sure the vast majority of American's disagree with me on this, which is why this isn't a presidential issue, but I feel very strongly that guns need to be outlawed in the USA completely. If guns are removed from the public, it will be much easier to identify criminals with guns ... primarily because only criminals will own guns.

    If gun control isn't going to be enforced, which I highly doubt it will any time soon, I personally like Chris Rock's idea of Bullet control:

    Everybody is talking about gun control. Got to control the guns. Fuck, that, I like guns. If you've got a gun, you don't need to work out! Cause, I ain't working out. I ain't jogging. No, I think we need some bullet control. I think every bullet should cost five thousand dollars. Five thousand dollars for a bullet. Know why? Cos if a bullet cost five thousand dollars, there'd be no more innocent by-standers. That'd be it. Some guy'd be shot you'd be all 'Damn, he must've done something, he's got fifty thousand dollars worth of bullets in his ass!' And people'd think before they shot someone 'Man I will blow your fucking head off, if I could afford it. I'm gonna get me a second job, start saving up, and you a dead man. You'd better hope I don't get no bullets on lay-away!' And even if you get shot you wouldn't need to go to the emergency room. Whoever shot you'd take their bullet back. 'I believe you got my property?'
    --- Chriss Rock
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