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Logic applied to a major problem.
“Gun Crime”, as the left likes to characterize it, is a serious problem in today’s urban America.
So, let’s take a moment to look at some FACTS:
Most crimes of violence are committed by KNOWN CRIMINALS.
CRIMINALS cannot legally buy, or even possess, firearms under our longstanding laws.
The overwhelming criminal gun of choice is the handgun.
Most “crime guns” are stolen from legal owners.
Most of those are stolen from private vehicles.
Why were unattended guns left in vehicles in the first place?
That is because our legislatures have passed laws giving authority to many to prohibit carry of guns on their premises. Those laws affect non-CRIMINALS equally. In public and private spaces !
Those “common sense laws” criminalize what many see as non-criminal behavior of non-criminal citizens. Because of recent & old SCOTUS rulings, the LICENSED persons are actually restricted much more than actual criminals are.
So, when a non criminal LEGAL gun owner seeks to enter one of those spaces, he or she must disarm to stay legal. Therefore, many of those guns are temporarily left in vehicles, unattended.
That, dear hearts, explains where CRIMINALS get their “crime guns”.
FACT: We now have over 40 years of records on these things. Fewer that one in 10,000 licensed gun owner/carriers will ever use their gun in a crime of violence.
Licensees do not participate in crime; they are not attacking innocent civilians or police.
See where this is going ?
Restricted zones are stopping licensed non criminals from carrying, annd do furnish guns to be stolen by criminals to use in their violent CRIMES.
If
Those zones were eliminated, most of the guns wouldn’t be available to be stolen; because the non-criminal owners would be carrying them !
So, if we quit restricting the WRONG Citizens, the crimes should go-down. We also would have the benefit of more armed non-criminal Citizens to protect us all from violent criminals.
LOGIC
Sorry, unavailable in government models. . . . . . .
LeVieux
p.s.
.Where else in public life are premises managers or landowners given authority to regulate or prevent CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED CITIZENS’ RIGHTS ? Is this an abuse of longstanding “trespass laws” ? IANAL, But REAL, ACTUAL common sense and reason should prevail on basic PUBLIC SAFETY, shoudn’t it? How could authorities act to prevent anticipated criminal acts of estabished non-criminal specifically trained LICENSED Citizens ? I can understand and accept “DO NOT ENTER - PRIVATE PROPERTY”
There is no “sense” in punishing licensed, non-criminal Citizens, with no criminal intent, greater than actual criminals with criminal intent !.
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Logic applied to a major problem.
“Gun Crime”, as the left likes to characterize it, is a serious problem in today’s urban America.
So, let’s take a moment to look at some FACTS:
Most crimes of violence are committed by KNOWN CRIMINALS.
CRIMINALS cannot legally buy, or even possess, firearms under our longstanding laws.
The overwhelming criminal gun of choice is the handgun.
Most “crime guns” are stolen from legal owners.
Most of those are stolen from private vehicles.
Why were unattended guns left in vehicles in the first place?
That is because our legislatures have passed laws giving authority to many to prohibit carry of guns on their premises. Those laws affect non-CRIMINALS equally. In public and private spaces !
Those “common sense laws” criminalize what many see as non-criminal behavior of non-criminal citizens. Because of recent & old SCOTUS rulings, the LICENSED persons are actually restricted much more than actual criminals are.
So, when a non criminal LEGAL gun owner seeks to enter one of those spaces, he or she must disarm to stay legal. Therefore, many of those guns are temporarily left in vehicles, unattended.
That, dear hearts, explains where CRIMINALS get their “crime guns”.
FACT: We now have over 40 years of records on these things. Fewer that one in 10,000 licensed gun owner/carriers will ever use their gun in a crime of violence.
Licensees do not participate in crime; they are not attacking innocent civilians or police.
See where this is going ?
Restricted zones are stopping licensed non criminals from carrying, annd do furnish guns to be stolen by criminals to use in their violent CRIMES.
If
Those zones were eliminated, most of the guns wouldn’t be available to be stolen; because the non-criminal owners would be carrying them !
So, if we quit restricting the WRONG Citizens, the crimes should go-down. We also would have the benefit of more armed non-criminal Citizens to protect us all from violent criminals.
LOGIC
Sorry, unavailable in government models. . . . . . .
LeVieux
p.s.
.Where else in public life are premises managers or landowners given authority to regulate or prevent CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED CITIZENS’ RIGHTS ? Is this an abuse of longstanding “trespass laws” ? IANAL, But REAL, ACTUAL common sense and reason should prevail on basic PUBLIC SAFETY, shoudn’t it? How could authorities act to prevent anticipated criminal acts of estabished non-criminal specifically trained LICENSED Citizens ? I can understand and accept “DO NOT ENTER - PRIVATE PROPERTY”
There is no “sense” in punishing licensed, non-criminal Citizens, with no criminal intent, greater than actual criminals with criminal intent !.