Ultimately I would say that education, not educating people about guns, but school... people graduating highschool, going to college and university puts people in a social environment where money and objects is obtained through work and not stealing or killing to take what you want and hussling on the streets. And as education rises crime may go down. Or does it.....it may just be that shootings, and house break ins are down, but more and more educated bankers and accountants, and lawyers and merchants figure out how to embezel money, skim from the top, create fake expenses, etc....so white collar crime goes up instead. The crime that seemingly does not have a victim, or does it?
Still, sometimes, desperate times calls for desperate measures.....but in the opposite sense....not protection. You work hard, go to university, have a house, have kids, have savings, and all that disapears, goes underwater.....so to speak....maybe a la Katrina....now is your desperate time to feed and keep your 2 year old warm...many fathers will probably run into a grocery store and run off with a loaf of bread. That is our hunting ground. It may have been in the past that you went out for hunting deer or ducks or berries.....? Now food grows on a store shelf. Anyways just saying, food for thought.
As for gun control. Anyone can blow a fuse. In Canada....here we go again about Canada....we seemingly have gun control laws. But per capita we do have a large number of long guns....riffles and shotguns, even compared to the US. It is the hand guns that we control, you could have 50 shotguns if you like. Shoot.....the land of carribou, moose, ducks, geese...with no long guns?!.....wow!, I work at a place where whole work projects get put on hold during this time of year cause guys take off hunting for 2-4 weeks at a time. We do have guns up here too. Just can't conceal carry.....not easily legally anyway...unless you are in law enforcement and have some special need to do it. Or if you are a criminal then you have the freedom to conceal a rocket launcher if you wanted to....:wtf:
We've had this crazy gun registry for a few years up here. Big debate as to keep it or scrap it. Doesn't seem to really be any indication that it worked to reduce crime. Either side has it's stats that contradicts the other. And really the stats also show that crime was in a decline from before the gun registry. So what is it?....a natural decline... so regardless of the gun registery it was going to decline anyway or is it that the gun registry helped the decline and maintained the decline.....we will never really know.
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Big crazy violent crimes that have been commited in Canada, with multiple deaths and wounded, like school shootings or shopping mall shootings have almost exclusively been commited with registered guns. Guns that belonged to collectors, or that we were used for hunting, or were used exclusively for target practice in a shooting range. The piece of paper any of the gun control and gun registry laws were written on seemingly were not thick enough to stop the bullets.....oh well, time for better laws then......:violin: and the use of thicker paper.
Anyone can blow a fuse, we'vehad police officers go nuts and doctors go crazy and kill there families and girlfriends in a fit of rage and anger. The gun doesn't know it was registered, and wasn't suppossed to be used to kill people.
One argument for the gun registry is that it is used by law enforcement it to identify if the home they are about to enter has any guns in it. Works good if the person registered all his guns, and if the person in there actually is someone who lives there and not someone who entered with their gun from somewhere else. And......really....the police will just casually enter a building or home with reports of violence after the gun registry says no guns in this house....what kind of morons are those....always enter to expect the worse......
Anyways, not sure where I stand 100% but I know laws and registries don't physically stop crime, But I do feel nervous knowing that people around me could be concealed carrying, since anyone can blow a fuse. But someone can blow a fuse with a baseball bat, a crow bar, and screw driver, a hammer, a steel chain or run me over in a 4Runner....there its about 4runners now
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) So, i have no idea why this thread got shifted to police departments and crime rate...i could care less because past events have proven that you may not have a leg to stand on if things go wrong. I support my local police...and where i work, we have to work close with police whenever they bring in some weirdos off the street for medical care. But, i go a step forward to help protect my family just in case no one else is there to help us.
