Here are the simple facts of effective gun control:
|
Year |
Annual Deaths Resulting From Firearms Total |
Annual Rate of all Gun Deaths per 100,000 Population |
||
|
UK |
US |
UK |
US |
|
|
2011 |
146 |
3,216,311 |
0.30% |
10.31% |
|
2010 |
165 |
3,167,212 |
0.50% |
10.26% |
|
2009 |
150 |
31,347 |
0.40% |
10.22% |
|
2008 |
174 |
31,593 |
0.70% |
10.39% |
|
2007 |
130 |
31,224 |
0.50% |
10.37% |
|
2006 |
211 |
30,896 |
0.60% |
10.35% |
|
2005 |
162 |
30,694 |
0.60% |
10.39% |
|
2004 |
156 |
29,569 |
0.70% |
10.10% |
|
2003 |
163 |
30,136 |
0.50% |
10.39% |
|
2002 |
169 |
30,242 |
0.50% |
10.51% |
|
2001 |
156 |
29,573 |
0.40% |
10.38% |
|
2000 |
234 |
28,663 |
1.30% |
10.19% |
|
1999 |
212 |
28,874 |
0.80% |
10.35% |
I agree with the NRA, gun control advocates in this country would have no large effect on gun violence in this country. This is because gun control advocates are trying to compromise with gun advocates to the point of offering ineffective solutions. You can’t compromise with insanity without being insane yourself. WARNING: The GUN has a toxic psychological effect on certain types of people that feel weak and inadequate. The GUN makes them feel strong and superior. This is what psychology calls ‘delusional’. Freud had further explanations about this type of pathology which involved certain human anatomical parts. People who can be very sane and reasonable in many areas can have sociological illnesses which can result in maladies such as slavery, the Reich, etc.
Gun violence will not get better unless and until people recognize this malady. The solution:
1. National gun registry
2. Shotguns allowed with Shot Gun Certificate
3. Manual rifles and pistols allowed with Firearm Certificate
4. There should be a very small cartridge limit to registered firearms (I suggest 3 as many states in the US have had in the past)
5. No machine guns, rocket launchers, pepper sprays, semi-automatic and pump-action center fire rifles, disguised firearms, grenades, torpedoes, tanks, nukes, missiles, etc. for private citizens
6. You must have a ‘good reason’ to own a firearm and a thorough regular psychological evaluation and criminal background check
7. Strict fines and prison terms for legal registrants which are found guilty of letting others have access to their registered gun either by consent or omission (not locking up the arms)
8. If the current opinion of the Supreme Court as delivered by Anthony Scalia is correct concerning the second amendment (see link), then we must change the second amendment. This has been done before…i.e., the 13th and 14th amendment (slavery) and the 18th and 21st (prohibition) among others.
9. A huge law enforcement sweep to get illegal guns out of the country and diligent border protection to keep them from coming back
Anything less than this will not greatly reduce deaths from firearms in the United States. Gun control advocates should be careful not to advocate watered down measures that will only provide more ammunition to the NRA. Those of us who believe in gun control may have to come to grips with the fact that only a radical solution will work, as the UK demonstrates, and quit trying to appease unmitigated pathologies. After what happened in Colorado, where very reasonable gun control laws brought all the sociological crazies out to vote, we should recognize that moderate and temperate rationality will not work. I hope all the Colorado residents who voted for recalls are really proud of themselves especially after the Navy Shipyard shootings and recent shootings in Chicago. Hey, maybe Chicago is the NRA’s answer to poverty which saves the government money? Anyway, I suppose most of those voters in Colorado will sleep good at night without a conscience about their vote. I know I will sleep good knowing that nothing short of a radical solution will solve the gun problem in this country…and I have been a hunter and a police officer.