Near Future & Gun Control

It strikes me as, I'm not sure of the right word, but insensitive maybe? I've been trying to find the words to describe my thought on the whole thing, but I've not come up with the right ones, perhaps. 

 

For starters, I'm going to have to Google crime statistics on stolen guns, because while I don't doubt that you're correct I hear the "most crimes are committed with stolen guns" argument thrown around alot and I'm curious as to whether that's correct.

 

But, let's assume you are because I'm sure you're at the very least no far off and let's talk Hi Points.

There are, in my opinion, three types of people that buy Hi Points:

1:) Someone who knows next to nothing about guns

 

2:) Someone who can't afford anything better

 

3:) Someone who needs a gun right now

 

So waiting periods take care of number 3 sort of (I've never been subject to one so I'm not sure how that system works.) But then you've got 1 and 2.

 

1 is dangerous in their own right because a person who doesn't know much about guns is more likely to leave it laying around where it can be taken.

 

2 is very likely to live in a poverty stricken neighborhood where crime is high anyway so the chances of it being stolen and used to bust a cap off in a 7/11 owner are almost astronomically higher than elsewhere.

 

Whale is correct in the assertion that I'm trying to make here-the guns being stolen are being stolen from somewhere.

Look, here's my thing. Please, gun nuts (I'm looking at you guys Tallen and Kay ) I'm not starting an argument on the merit of Hi Points. I'm using them as a hypothetical saturday night specal in the classic vein of .32's that were bought strictly for close range murder. A gun that you pay alot for is a gun that you're going to value far more than some crap you bought for a hundred bucks at a pawn shop.

I'm not the only person to bring this up-John McCain was trying to get something similar passed making the sale of saturday night specials (cheap handguns) either illegal are heavily taxed. IIRC it was like under 500 bucks there's a heavy tax penalty.

I'm also not suggesting that my ideas are going to fix anything or that they're an end all to the problem. Personally, I like the idea of just enforcing the laws on the books. But if something has to be done, the AWB amounts to little more than an ineffective, easy target for gun control advocates and is, in my opinion, just a politician's way of saying "Look at me, I did something about the gun problem in America!"

I could be wrong, but it's how I see it.

 

 

I don't guess I understand you on this one, Whale.

Don't get me wrong-I don't buy in to mass purchasing hysteria of any kind. If I wasn't in the market for an AR before this I obviously didn't have a need for it now.

But I don't see where sensitivity comes in to play. We all feel heartbroken that these children were killed, but I don't see why buying a gun makes you heartless to that detail. Life goes on post-tragedy and if you're a gun collector then this might be your last chance to own an important part of hobby gun history. AR-15's are to gun culture what 68 Camaros are to car people-it's the gun young nuts dream about and grown men put ungodly amounts of money in to.

The twinkie analogy is, from a supply and demand perspective, spot on.

Obviously there are the douchebags on Facebook (mine included) that immediately start some "from my cold dead hands" rant about how guns would have saved all the children but as far as the national political scene I saw alot of respect and silence from groups such as the NRA.

Not so much from ignorant news anchors trying to be the first to call the gun control debate, but that's the nature of the beast.

Social inequity is probably the most pronounced factor in crime rates, at least according to sociology.

Worship of the military is a side effect of neoconservatism and I have no idea how that fits in to mass murders.

I see what you're saying as far as image, though I'm not sure self centered knee jerk reactions are terribly against the grain in human culture.