There are things that can be done to reduce gun violence in our country. Those things can be summed up as: enforce the current laws, lock up violent criminals, and stop doing stupid things and start doing thngs that work. Unfortunately some people are evil and no gun laws will stop them from getting guns if they wish or doing what they wish until they are stopped.
I don’t think that I have heard a single thing coming out of Washington that would do anything but make it more difficult for law abiding people to defend themeslves. So one has to wonder if protecting people is what they are after, or if there are other objectives. Only a tiny fraction of gun owners ever harm someone with a gun. Americans are four to five times as likely to die of second hand smoke than to die of a gun, and there are half as many American smokers as gun owners.
There is no guarantee, anf frankly little indication, that Congress without our help will do anything useful to save the lives of law abiding Americans. Congress already put our innocent children into “Gun Free Zones” which are a perfect example of a liberal idea than anyone with common sense knew would be counter-productive. Some of the blood from Newtown and every school mass killing belongs on the hands of Washington politicians who turned all our schools into attractive nuisances for killers looking for lots of easy victims.
Most Americans (not the ciminals and it seeems some politicians) want to save innocent lives, but taking guns away from law abiding citizens and leaving them in the hands of criminals is not the way to do it. Congress has a history of passing stupid and often counter-productive laws, so without our input they could easily do it again and cause many more dead law abiding Americans.
I encourage everyone to contact our elected representatives and let them know how you feel. If my letter gives you any useful idea, great.
Dear Senator or Congresswoman,
If the real intent of the new gun laws being considered is to save lives, there are four things that would help. First, and most beneficial, would be to ensure that a better job is done of enforcing the existing laws and putting the people who intentionally harm other people in prison for a very long time. Existing criminal laws are not being enforced adequately at any level of Government including the Federal level, and we both know it. Enforcing our immigration laws would help significantly because illegal aliens commit a disproportional amount of crime including homicide.