Yes I am a gun owner and have been for years. I carried a gun as part of my job for over ten years. That being said there is nothing wrong with a little common sense and information when it comes to gun control. Extreme views are going to unpopular and unrealistic on both sides of this sensitive issue. Guns are not going away no we are not all going to be carrying fully auto weapons.
Do we have a gun problem in this country? Yes and no and maybe and there really is no way to answer that question.
Yes we seem to have shootings in this country. The problem is our media only wants to tell us about the "outrageous and terrible mass shootings". Those are but a fraction of the shootings in part and homicides in whole in this country. What happened in Aurora, Columbine, Newtown and so many other places is horrible and painful for the families and survivors. But is it any less painful and horrible for the family of a little girl in Detroit, Chicago, New York or any other major city that is killed by a stray round fired by a gang banger? Why do we not hear about those shootings from the national media?
No we do not have a gun problem in this country. We have a people problem. People are the ones pulling the triggers and people are the ones not holding people responsible for pulling triggers. It's just easier to blame it on the evil guns so we don't have to address the human factor.
Maybe we have a gun problem because a lot of people are killed by guns every year and maybe we don't have a gun problem because a lot of people are killed by cars, knives, falls, industrial accidents, etc etc etc.
There really is no way to answer whether we have a gun problem or not because we can't seem to define the term "assault weapon" or "gun problem".
There! Isn't that simple? I hope I've made this whole thing easier for you to understand.
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