Reply #166: It really has not. [View All]

[Atypical Liberal]

However, the proliferation of guns has created warfare of its own in our cities and more, not less, violence to our citizenry has ensued. When Americans can't protect their own people where is our freedom?

In fact, the warfare in our cities is not a product of gun proliferation. It is directly a result of drug prohibition. The manufacture and distribution of drugs is a multi-national, multi-billion dollar industry. Being illegal, this industry is forced to operate outside the law, and it is forced to resolve business disputes outside the law. Firearms are merely the most expedient tool for that job.

Most firearm homicides are committed by people with extensive prior criminal histories, including, on average, four felonies.

http://www.cardozolawreview.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=138:kates201086&catid=20:firearmsinc&Itemid=20

There really isn't a gun problem in America - there is a criminal problem in America. We need to focus on keeping firearms out of the hands of criminals, because they are the ones causing the problems. Most firearm owners are not part of the problem.