Well it seems like your country is having a sort of experiment. Trying strong gun control in places like Washington DC and Illinois and virtually no gun control in places like Vermont. (Correct me if I've got my places wrong.) Surely now is a good time to have a "tally-up", see which system seems safest then adopt that before too many more people are needlessly killed or injured?
If it is not gun control but some other factor that makes places safe or not safe then perhaps you could do some more experimentation with "other factors".
Isn't this just logic?
Chicago, D.C. and New York were no experiments. The human degenerate excrement in those cities murder, and will continue to murder, no matter laws thither and yon, today or tomorrow, never. Those metropolitan areas (and many more here) are overrun by drug traffic, corruption, murders, rapes, robberies, and other unspeakable atrocities. The criminal element in those areas don't heed laws, or experiments. Even trusted guardians of the cities are corrupt. Organized crime in metropolitan America is firmly entrenched, and nothing short of all out war in the streets is going to make a damn bit of difference. I foresee curfews, Marshall law, Police State within those cities overrun by this scum. Threats of firearm confiscation will make no difference to the criminals! They will run rampant with glee, as they will be the only ones with firearms, to prey on the recently disarmed, law-abiding public.
This is always governments' fix-it; disarm law-abiding citizens with feel-good, pat-on-the-back, attaboy laws that leave honest citizens defenseless against the effluent. Crime involving criminals with firearms goes up, and politicians/government are left scratching their heads at what possibly could have gone wrong?
I'm going to go out on a limb and say our present attacks on law-abiding citizens rights to protect themselves against multiple intruders with appropriate defense, while not directly related to our 2nd amendment, is the most egregious, and idiotic piece of legislation I have seen in my 57 years as an American.
Diane Feinstein's AWB, with all the hundreds of attached stipulations is ludicrous insanity. She must be stopped, if we want to protect ourselves from multiple intruders in our own homes. She won't stop until all of America is disarmed, left to criminals armed to the teeth, preying on our society, as easily as shooting fish in a rain barrel.
As far as any more experiments in our metropolitan areas that work; there are none. Marshall Law, Police State, Executive Order, are just around the corner in those areas. I fear some watered-down equivalent will be shoved-down our throats, possibly involving Executive Order, in more rural areas.
Logic will have nothing to do with how our government operates from here onward. The battle lines have been drawn in the sand, and we'll see what shakes-out of the mess.
As an American citizen, I am worried about civil unrest in some areas, leading to needless casualties to enforcers, and civilians. I pray it doesn't come to that, and consider that a worst case scenario. We cannot let that happen. It will rip this country apart at the already frayed seams.
I'm of the ilk that I always envision worst case scenarios, and if they don't happen, I'm relieved and thankful for it, in the end.
I'm emotionally drained since the CT massacre. I've cried, wept silently, prayed for the dead, families, relatives and witnesses to this atrocity, and of course all the others that have happened not so long ago.
We seem hell-bent on attacking the wrong cause, instead of putting blame squarely on government for their gun free zones (killing fields), and total lack of responsibility for not appointing officers in our schools, as are already in our county, state and federal buildings. Blame innocent society for the atrocities that government is criminally culpable for. That is our present administration's mantra. And it sickens me to the core. When do the criminally insane get blamed for their actions? When? WHEN?
