2013-12-29

Gun Control: Social Fallacy

Gun-control is a social fallacy.

Nothing more, nothing less.

This is what I've come to conclude. Yesterday I was talking to an RCMP officer, during our conversation we came about gun-control. In his opinion it's not a useful tool - at all. He seemed to confirm the standard belief that "law-abiding people register but not criminals who will ALWAYS have the guns."

Statistics after statistics, data after data after data, essay after auditor-reports and the like all point to one thing: At best, the results have been inclusive if not downright poor relative to the vast amount of resources we pour into it; whether it be through public discourse and debate or money.

Yet, here in Quebec the province is insisting on fighting Ottawa to be able to keep its gun-control registry. New York state, for its part, is losing its fucking mind with its Safe Act bull shit. Know what will happen there? People will be thrown in jail for the most innocuous of actions, that's what, and then they will turn around and tell the public "see, it's working!" They will succeed by turning people into criminals through faulty policy.

Don't want to be American? Well, their crime rates have been coming steadily down for decades whereas it's been increasing in Europe. Canada's violent crime rates are actually worse (eg assaults) than the USA.

Logic. Use it. Emotions. Ignore it.

This video focuses on U.S. and UK rates.




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