Gun control

I have yet to see a proposal that would take guns away from criminals. Only from law abiding citizens.

There is no evidence that fewer guns means less crimes. Quite the opposite, actually. Criminals are evil, not stupid. They choose other ways to prosper if the potential victims can shoot back.

Example: Australia confiscated all the guns and the gun violence fell 50% (ummm, if ALL the guns were removed, shouldn't gun violence have dropped 100%?) but over all violence skyrocketed. Personally, I'd rather be shot than beat to death by a baseball bat.

Switzerland has 8 billion people, and all adults are required to serve 2 years in the military ("Trained to shoot guns of all types") When they leave the service, they have the option of taking their gun (equal to an AR15) with them. They have some 2 billion guns, or, 1 gun for every 4 citizens. They also have the lowest violent crime rate in the world.

Even if we could wave a magic wand and remove all the guns from our country today, tomorrow thousands would be pouring over the border. Heck, we can't keep 200 pound men out. What makes anyone think we can keep guns out?

If you remove the cities with the toughest gun control laws from the stats, America has the lowest gun violence rate in the world. And yes, these shooting happen all over the world (except in Switzerland). Americans are just too myopic to pay any attention to anyone else.

And the protesters from this weekend are in two camps:

1. Stupid kids being manipulated by the media and self-appointed elite. They obviously don't even know what they are talking about.
2. Those who are doing the manipulating because they think they are part of the elite and will benefit if we are disarmed.

Fact:

1. 18 kids died in school shootings this past month.
2. Somewhere between 270-330 teens died texting and driving in the same amount of time. Where are the "Apple is killing our children" and "Ford is guilty of murder" signs? Oh wait, that wouldn't push the elite's agenda. Got it. 
3. Why aren't we talking about 650 murders in Chicago in the last year? or 290 killed in New York? That's an average of 78 per month in just these two cities. Two cities, by the way, with the toughest gun control laws in the nation. Is it because the victims were blacks killed by blacks? No, actually, I don't think race has anything to do with it.  These cities have already bought into the politically correct ideas of "guns bad" and so they are no longer of interest to the media and elites. Who cares about the results as long as they have the right laws? Who cares about the common man cowering defenseless in his living room? He's not important. Their power is.
4. What about the 3000 children who had their arms and legs ripped off, or their bodies dissolved in acid, or major arteries cut so they would bleed to death in the last DAY? That's 90,000 in the last month. Of course since their bodies are disposed of off camera (often sold to the highest bidder for medicines, and makeup even), no one cares. 

"Until you show our kids that its' wrong to kill children in the womb, they won't quit killing them in the classroom."

And the fact remains that all shooters are young men from broken homes, raised without a man in the house, seeing a psychiatrist and taking psycho-tropic drugs. These are the issues that need to be addressed. Even if we made it impossible for these disturbed individuals to get guns, they would just build bombs or drive cars into crowds. We need to address the causes of this type of thinking.