I appreciate your position, I really do. The problem with too many gun control advocates is that they tend to misrepresent the ideals of those who support the 2nd Amendment Right to keep and bear arms. Personally I do not know one single individual who shares my support for gun ownership that also advocates allowing individuals who have been identified as ‘unstable’ regardless of reason to own a gun.
There are too many people who choose to blame the NRA because of its stance, but the true culprits are those that relentlessly oppose proper background checks on individuals attempting to purchase a gun. While people such as yourself lobby for tighter gun control, at the same time there are also those lobbying based on privacy issues to protect the precise information that would prohibit ‘unstable’ individuals from purchasing a gun.
As with all things there are those who go too far. The NRA, myself and others like me are not the enemy here. Try looking at all the issues rather than the easiest one. Also, concerning your figures, in 2010 there were 31,513 deaths related to guns. Breaking that down, you have 19,308 that were suicide and 600 that were accidental, resulting in 11,015 that were homicide. Of that number 3,110 were gang on gang shootings, leaving 7,905 criminally executed homicides.
I still stand by my statement because gun control will only control law abiding citizens.
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