VCC wrote:Simply LOL
Exactly why America will never have any huge gun reform.
Never ever been a wife shoot her cheating husband or vice verse, ultimately does that make them a criminal i would think so , but incredible statistics that voters do not commit such crime. Amazes me that gun crime comes only from left sided politics simply wow.
By the way every car wreck has a person at fault operating outside of the law in some way for the most part maybe criminals only cause accidents?.
Anyways America economy relies on conflict be that at home or somewhere manufactured in the world, weapons in America and their sales all around the globe including to people they then fight against will not change in the near or distant future.
There is a difference between military equipment sales and private gun ownership. Your point about sales and now simply handing out missile systems to Ukraine is more about taxpayer money being laundered to politicians than fighting for democracy. It is an industry that China, N Korea, Pakistan, Russia, the US, UK, the EU all engage in.
As for private gun ownership, were most NZ gun owners willing to hand them in or was there a huge penalty involved as is making them the criminals? Your point also underscores and defeats these arguments made by the left that all guns need to be banned so that criminals don't have access to them...except that they always do. They don't much care that fully automatic Uzzis etc are flooding into every country to fill the supply demand by the gangs. Here in the US, these fully automatic weapons are being brought in across the open border, but that is not a concern for the so called anti gun lobby.
The two sides of this, government sales and private ownership (and banning of guns) are related in that tyrants first need to get guns away from their subjects as has happened in so many cases, from Nazi Germany to Australia to the efforts in the US.
Then we have the ignorant left trying to make it a racial issue...as in white gun owners are afraid that blacks will start buying guns. Hmmm.
https://www.newsweek.com/joy-behar-gun- ... ng-1714196"The most recent data provided by the National Firearms Survey published in July 2021 show that demographically gun ownership is pretty diverse, with 25.4 percent of firearms owned by Black people, 28.3 percent owned by Hispanics, 19.4 percent owned by Asians and the majority, 34.3 percent, owned by White people."
So given white people only own 34.3% of guns, that makes the minority groups the majority of legal gun owners. Given there are no stats on illegal gun ownership, yet the vast majority of gun crime is in urban areas we can only assume that that % is far greater.
"Another survey from the same year by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) investigating gun ownership in the country found that at least 5.4 million people purchased a firearm for the first time in 2021."
Yup. More pro gun voters created by soft on crime liberals.
"Some 44 percent of retailers said they saw an increase in Black people purchasing firearms in that year, adding up to what the NSSF said was already a 58 percent increase in gun ownership among Black Americans from 2019 to 2020."
Due to crime and lack of policing, people no matter their race will defend themselves and their families. So yes Ms Behar, you and your condescending ilk claim the gun laws will change when "blacks get guns". Which makes the Dems the racists given her ridiculous point was that whites would want to stop legal guns in minority hands. These are the ignorant beliefs that are easily dispelled when the surface is scratched and the truth exposed.
He/His/Non-Menstruater/Postmenopausal/non-vaginal male. Yup all man!