RE: Should the United States Ban Guns?
Excellent point. You need only look at the years of prohibition to find evidence that your statement is solid. It's the same with marijuana, which at least 40% of the people I know smoke, in spite of its illegality.
In regards to guns, I feel that legalised gun ownership is the most powerful deterrent to gun crime. Many who argue for tougher gun control laws will speak of the high gun-related deaths in the States as ammunition for their argument. What they tend to conveniently leave out however, is that the overwhelming majority of instances where someone is killed or injured by a firearm are concentrated in the areas where gun control is at its peak.
It's understandable too. If you are an armed robber by trade, going from place to place and holding up stores or other places of business, then it benefits you greatly if you know that you and your accomplices are the only ones who are armed in the venue. You would be a lot less likely to attempt to commit an armed robbery if you knew that any one of the civilians in there with you could potentially be holding a concealed weapon. Your chances of success are greatly reduced in those circumstances, and your safety would be at serious risk. Sure, you may get the types who are in it for the thrill and not the money, and so would be willing to test those waters--but they are far rarer than the movies would lead you to think.
Criminals gain their power by being the only one in the room with the gun. Give everyone a weapon, and my guess is the crime rate would drop considerably. Yes, it's depressing that we live in a world where it seems you need to be armed in order to dissuade your fellow man from exploiting you, but alas that is how things are--for now.
You gave me an interesting but scary thought....
I earlier in another post referred to the world as currently being Backwards World.
An example I gave is that whistle blowers reporting a crime are now considered a criminal, and you can be an actual criminal and run for the highest office in the land.
So the actual Criminals can RULE. Apply that thought in connection with what I quoted to you above and things get a bit more clear, and a bit more scary.
A backwards world indeed. Right down to the very essence of survival. We are conditioned from birth to believe that success is measured in zeros. Darwinism brainwashes us into thinking that it is survival of the fittest--every man for himself, and that to get ahead you have to step on other people's dreams. This is backwards as fuck.
Success should be measured by the positive impact you are able to have on the people that you cross paths with in life, and to get ahead at the expense of other people's well-being should be considered inhumane. We all ought to help each other do better, together.
I am going to give your article a read in a moment because I have to agree with you. Just about everything is the exact opposite to how it should be--how it was intended to be.
I raised my children telling them that creating a thing is far more impressive than destroying a thing. One takes skill and effort, the other often does not.
Unfortunately, our enemies have gotten rather efficient at creating devices for the purpose of destroying everything that we hold dear.
Oh and while I'm at it... that article I linked you is where I referenced Backwards World earlier today. I did however, write an article that was directly inspired by this @thecryptofiend blog we are talking on here. It was basically me expanding upon what I said here. So the backwards world part of my blog on the word TRUTHER you might find interesting, but if you want a specific direct reference to this article it is this post: Mass violence... have instability and will then there is a way...