I honestly don't think that guns are the cause of the violence, obviously a tool of the violent, but not the cause. We do not solve the problem of violent behaviour by removing guns.
I have a feeling that drugs/alchohol play the largest part in violent crime today. So far I have not found the stats to support it, (i think stats are a flawed form of evidence anyway).
In order to solve the problem of violent crime, we have to look at the causes. People were murdering each other long before the gun became the weapon of choice.
If we can study the motives in violent crime, and find what drives people to committ these offences, we can make the social/economic changes necessary to drastically drop the violent crime rate.
Gun control will only hinder honest people from owning weapons, I do not see how it will stop criminals from getting their hands on guns.
Maybe we should work on minimizing poverty as well as drug and alchohol addiction.
Then there is always mans great flaw
GREED and jelousy.
I will never register any weapons, I will not comply to any laws to do with the control of firearms.
Gun control does not solve anything, the problems run much deeper than the fact that people own guns.
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