Jon Stewart usually is a lot better and I don't really like his routine when he is appealing only on a moral level. Most people who are for much stricter gun control laws now seem to only be reacting to the recent mass shootings. Yes, these are terrible tragedies and steps should be taken to stop them from happening. The biggest problem is that the pro-gun control side is prying on your fear of guns by saying things like "shooting epidemics" and "rampant gun violence" which is just not true. The statistics have been shown on the pro-gun side with the facts being compared amongst multiple primary and unbiased sources in this thread while the pro-gun control side has been riddled with appeals to emotions. Here is another primary source that shows through multiple statistics that the homicide rate remained constant through the past decade:
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/ascii/htus8008.txt
This article also illustrates a very interesting set of data however.
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by ArticleLinked
Approximately a third (34%) of murder victims and almost
half (49%) of the offenders were under age 25.
|
It is the young that are committing these murders. Perhaps we should invest a little bit more money in public schools or help the impoverished or how about more outreach programs for these disturbed individuals?
Now, I am not a gun-nut. Never have been and never will be. I see many practical(for lack of a better word) to use a gun and I am sad that my side on the matter is saturated with these crazy gun nuts(See jon stewart video linked). Citing these raving lunatics and comparing the entire pro-gun side to them is a straw man argument and just illustrates how weak the actual pro-gun control position is.