It is obvious to one and all that the second amendment exists and has never been threatened in the entire history of the US. It is also obvious that the gun culture which currently exists in the US would be far too aggressive for any American government to ever contemplate revising the second amendment or banning all guns. It is equally obvious that the progun lobbyists are easily manipulated and controlled and with the use of mere illogical and absurd bumper stickers, they can be made to spend billions of dollars on more weaponry at the drop of a hat.
In England and Wales with a total population of 55 million people, a place with extremely restrictive gun laws, only 7 shooting related deaths occurred during the entire month of May, 2009. In order to keep pace, the US, with 300 million people, would need to show only 42 gun related deaths over the same time frame. Instead, the number is in the thousands. Yet, if you ask progun lobbyists, they will blurt out that gun violence is on the rise in England because of the gun laws they enacted over ten years ago. One can only imagine what the totals must have been if this "rise in gun violence" has lead to only seven deaths.
As long as law enforcement turns a blind eye to guns being illegally sold in one state in order to commit crimes in another, gun violence in the US will continue to produce tens of thousands of dead each year. As long as there's no registration of guns, there's no tracking of guns, and there's no legal enforcement of the laws already on the books, the US will be known around the world as one of the most violent nations in existence. As long as absurd statements like, "guns don't kill people, people kill people," and "when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns," are believed, the private gun industry will have a very lucrative future on both sides of the law. As long as stupid rumors of imminent gun confiscation run rampant, the US will stay at or near the top in gun violence, firearm murders, firearm crime and other violent crimes.
As long as progun lobbyists demonstrate selective amnesia and lack of common sense as their primary motive, tens of millions of Americans will continue to purchase more and more armaments and will, as a direct result, furnish the criminal black market with guns and an ever increasing inventory of weapons for them to choose from.
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