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Should America have more gun control?

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Gauntlets28 · 26-30, M
I think it's more that they need 'some' gun control. Like, anything. The way they have it now, there's so many guns around that criminals practically just have to look in a corner and there'll be a firearm they can use.
katielass · F
@Gauntlets28 well, that might be a slight exaggeration but it's easy to get a gun if you're a criminal. How do you think the blacks who are killing other blacks in Chicago get their guns. They don't buy them at the local gun shop. And because they are black, the left will not even discuss that. They are willing to sit back and watch hundreds, adding up to thousands, of black lives lost because they can't get past the fact that the killers are black. They don't want them incarcerated, it might be racist.
Gauntlets28 · 26-30, M
@katielass Frankly, it's not just black people, but it is largely the working class because poverty tends to breed crime. Really that's the reason why places like Switzerland don't have that level of gun crime despite everyone being armed. They're all quite wealthy and very satisfied with life.
Short term solution would be greater gun control and firearm amnesties, because there's too many people in the USA with too many guns for them to possibly be able to keep track of that makes it incredibly easy to obtain guns by theft and smuggling.
Long term, you need to sort out your poverty issue.
katielass · F
@Gauntlets28 Yes, poverty does tend to breed crime and it's probably true that there is some white on white killings but it is nowhere near as prevalent as it is in some black communities. I'm talking about places like Chicago. when you have a couple thousand black kids being killed year after year I think it's time someone did something. I have written extensively on this site about how the blacks came to be in that position. I am old enough to remember when the black family was pretty much intact. There have always been some black, and white, fathers who didn't hang around. But LBJ , racist pig that he was, changed the welfare rules and said if there's a man living in the house, no welfare. Well, if you can't make ends meet with hubby's income and welfare pays better what are you going to do, make daddy move out. and at that time welfare did pay better, you got more money for each additional kid, so that caused a lot of poor black women to have lots of kids so she could get more money. This was by design though, it was not an unintended consequence.