[quote=livinincali] I think the better line of questioning would be we have a serious problem with violence in this country. Guns are just a tool to carry out that violence. Can you confidently say that without the guns the violence would go away. I’d be somewhat hard pressed to believe that.
The two primary areas where violence comes from is the war on drugs and mental unstable people taking various drugs that can have adverse effects. Most serious disputes over drugs are settled by murder because you can’t use the courts to settle those disputes. Many mentally unstable people see improvement from various psychotropic drugs yet a small minority don’t. The warning labels on those drugs do describe adverse effects such as violent behavior.
If we got rid of the war on drugs and spent that money on treating mentally unstable people we’d probably have a far greater effect on violence than any proposed gun regulations.[/quote]
livinincali,
Thank you for your response. Yes, I agree with you that we have the root causes that include drug/mental health etc and the guns are tools. I believe that it make a huge difference when one has a gun versus not having a gun readily to carry the violence out.
