Quote Originally Posted by airshifter View Post
Anyone who actually looked objectively at the mounds and mounds of statistics on the issue would find that it's not the everyday gun owner who commits these crimes, it's the thugs by a vast percentage. That being, the people that don't legally obtain or own their guns to begin with, and many who are by law prohibited from doing the same. There are also pages upon pages proving that the cities with the highest murder tolls are most often those cities with strict anti gun laws, the reason being that above mentioned thugs have little chance of being opposed with equal force.
Anti-Gun laws in cities are not designed as gun-prevention. Without borderpatrols between states or around cities, it is impossible to prevent the transportation of guns within the US. It is silly therefore to claim that Anti-Gun laws in cities are not good in helping gun prevention when that is an impossible aim to begin with.
Anti-Gun laws only work when there is a clear distinction between the pro-gun and anti-gun areas. This distinction does not exist within the US. It does exist between countries, and statistics clearly show that when a country bans guns and enforces strict border controls to enforce this ban, violent crime drops. Example: Australia.

The link provided earlier by Rollo shows a snapshot of the current reality. Legal un sales are soaring in the US, the population is still growing, and virtually all violent crime remains in decline for a couple of decades now. The primary argument from the anti gun crowd seems to be that more guns = more crime and death. But that doesn't agree with actual statistics.

I could attach a shallow stereotype to yourself or anyone else ignoring the facts, but this dumb redneck gun toter is smart enough to understand that shallow stereotypes are often cast due to a lack of understanding and the inability to grasp that not all of us have the same opinions.
Violent crime is dropping everywhere in the western world also in areas where there are no guns at all. It is therefore too simple to claim that the reason for the drop is pro-gun laws.