It’s a violence problem, not a gun problem

Comparisons don’t line up very well sometimes by people with no common sense. When there’s a bombing, we blame the bomber. When there’s a drunk-driving accident, we blame the driver. Why then, when there is a gun crime or gun accident, do we blame the gun?

Mayhem and murder would not stop if you took all the guns away, and like the old bumper sticker says, “When guns are outlawed, only outlaws would have guns.” Any competent machinist can make a gun these days, and thousands of legal “ghost” guns have already been made, with no serial number and no record of the gun being made!

Only honest citizens are affected by the political lawmakers. It makes them “feel” like they have done “something.” Mentally ill people and criminals will continue to do sick things no matter what the laws say. They don’t care about laws! Let’s do more to help control those with mental illness and habitual violent criminals and less wasting time and money blaming the NRA and guns for unlawful violence.

It’s a violence problem, not a gun problem. Large inner-city violence like that of Chicago, Washington, D.C. and New York pad the false statistics of gun crimes.

This story was originally published February 27, 2016 at 8:55 PM with the headline "It’s a violence problem, not a gun problem."