By: LM

LM
Sat, 10 Aug 2024 21:09:22 +0000

In reply to IslandApe.

Hi Islandape, One of the reasons I could not stop researching this issue was that there was no clear answer. So many leftie liberal researchers in America had pursued the case of legal firearm ownership to be banned, but they found that banning legal firearms just did not mean less firearm crime – it could not be resolved then in the nineties and it still can’t. This subject has been and still is interrogated by so many disciplines. As you say it’s a long and complex subject.

But a question stood out for me. The American Justice Department asked criminals in prisons who were convicted of a crime involving a firearm; ‘who do you fear most a home owner with a legal firearm or the police’. 98% said a homeowner. (I no longer have the number of those interviewed, but it was of the scale of the 100s of thousands, that is the scale of gun crime in the US).