Update.

Recent­ly there have been sev­er­al bills intro­duced to con­gress that would seek to con­trol own­er­ship of cer­tain types of guns the idea is that this would final­ly stop the hor­ri­ble sit­u­a­tions that we see on TV on a week­ly basis.

The truth is it would not do any such thing at all.

Peo­ple that intend to break the law and use guns to do ter­ri­ble things do not have to pur­chase a gun at a retail loca­tion all they have to do is find some­one to sell them one and there are plen­ty of those kinds of peo­ple out there.

The fail­ure of gun con­trol is also a very sim­ple thing.

You can­not con­trol it…

Com­pare this to pro­hi­bi­tion…

They banned alco­hol…

Did it stop peo­ple from buy­ing it?

No in fact more peo­ple start­ed drink­ing after they banned it than before it was banned.

Peo­ple became wealthy sell­ing it, gangs emerged, peo­ple died.

So, why would any­one in their right mind think that this is a solu­tion to a prob­lem?

Who knows for sure but one thing is clear con­gress has no idea how to stop it and noth­ing they do will begin to stop it and the authors of the con­sti­tu­tion knew this as well and that is why they wrote the sec­ond amend­ment.

Gun con­trol does not work and any­one with the aver­age num­ber of brain cells knows this and knows why its true.

For our friends that con­tin­u­al­ly fail to under­stand why Crim­i­nals will nev­er obey the law, lets do some reviews on Gun Con­trol.

Source

* Rough­ly 16,272 mur­ders were com­mit­ted in the Unit­ed States dur­ing 2008. Of these, about 10,886 or 67% were com­mit­ted with firearms.[11]

 

* A 1993 nation­wide sur­vey of 4,977 house­holds found that over the pre­vi­ous five years, at least 0.5% of house­holds had mem­bers who had used a gun for defense dur­ing a sit­u­a­tion in which they thought some­one “almost cer­tain­ly would have been killed” if they “had not used a gun for pro­tec­tion.” Applied to the U.S. pop­u­la­tion, this amounts to 162,000 such inci­dents per year. This fig­ure excludes all “mil­i­tary ser­vice, police work, or work as a secu­ri­ty guard.”[12]

 

* Based on sur­vey data from the U.S. Depart­ment of Jus­tice, rough­ly 5,340,000 vio­lent crimes were com­mit­ted in the Unit­ed States dur­ing 2008. These include simple/aggravated assaults, rob­beries, sex­u­al assaults, rapes, and mur­ders.[13] [14] [15] Of these, about 436,000 or 8% were com­mit­ted by offend­ers vis­i­bly armed with a gun.[16]

 

* Based on sur­vey data from a 2000 study pub­lished in the Jour­nal of Quan­ti­ta­tive Crim­i­nol­o­gy,[17] U.S. civil­ians use guns to defend them­selves and oth­ers from crime at least 989,883 times per year.[18]

 

* A 1993 nation­wide sur­vey of 4,977 house­holds found that over the pre­vi­ous five years, at least 3.5% of house­holds had mem­bers who had used a gun “for self-pro­tec­tion or for the pro­tec­tion of prop­er­ty at home, work, or else­where.” Applied to the U.S. pop­u­la­tion, this amounts to 1,029,615 such inci­dents per year. This fig­ure excludes all “mil­i­tary ser­vice, police work, or work as a secu­ri­ty guard.”[19]

 

* A 1994 sur­vey con­duct­ed by the U.S. Cen­ters for Dis­ease Con­trol and Pre­ven­tion found that Amer­i­cans use guns to fright­en away intrud­ers who are break­ing into their homes about 498,000 times per year.[20]

 

* A 1982 sur­vey of male felons in 11 state pris­ons dis­persed across the U.S. found:[21]

 

• 34% had been “scared off, shot at, wound­ed, or cap­tured by an armed vic­tim”

• 40% had decid­ed not to com­mit a crime because they “knew or believed that the vic­tim was car­ry­ing a gun”

• 69% per­son­al­ly knew oth­er crim­i­nals who had been “scared off, shot at, wound­ed, or cap­tured by an armed vic­tim”[22]

 

Now look at the Facts in one of the most vio­lent cities in Amer­i­ca, per capi­ta.

* In 1982, the city of Chica­go insti­tut­ed a ban on hand­guns. This ban barred civil­ians from pos­sess­ing hand­guns except for those reg­is­tered with the city gov­ern­ment pri­or to enact­ment of the law. The law also spec­i­fied that such hand­guns had to be re-reg­is­tered every two years or own­ers would for­feit their right to pos­sess them. In 1994, the law was amend­ed to require annu­al re-reg­is­tra­tion.[43] [44] [45]

* Dur­ing the years in which the D.C. hand­gun ban and trig­ger lock law was in effect, the Wash­ing­ton, D.C. mur­der rate aver­aged 73% high­er than it was at the out­set of the law, while the U.S. mur­der rate aver­aged 11% low­er.[37]

The truth is clear and if con­gress as well as Har­ry Reid, refus­es to under­stand the truth because they are men­tal­ly inca­pable of under­stand­ing or they have a men­tal prob­lem which requires their retire­ment then they need to be vot­ed out of office.

ITs Time that Amer­i­ca puts an end to the stu­pid­i­ty in con­gress.

America is not full of idiots, but congress sure is.