The Democratic party is widely known for their stance against the 2nd ammendment. Many of their representatives, the President of the United States included, like to believe that making guns inaccessible to people seeking to acquire them through legal means, will decrease the crimes that are wrought against the people who elected them. Now let’s look at the realities of gun control in the inner cities, or urban areas, whichever label you may be comfortable with. A general tragedy in inner cities, or urban areas, is the fact that violence is a regular occurrence for citizens who chose to live in the area. Does gun control decrease the number fatalities that regular occur in these areas? One criteria that these gun control advocates can’t control for is the fact that the people who commit the crimes are already in the criminal system.
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If the perpetrators of crimes have already dabbled in crime, the likelihood of the perpetrator having acquired the firearm legally, based on their own merits, is slim indeed. Cities such as Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City and various California locales have had strict gun control laws on the books for many years, yet still suffer at the hands of the local gang members, or criminals. Crimes perpetrated against innocent people cannot be stopped by merely making firearms impossible to acquire legally. They are stopped by transforminig the people who commit the crimes. When the individuals who live in these areas believe that they no longer want to hurt one another, then crime will be but a bad memory. Gun control is not the answer.
