A World without Guns

[ericire12]

A World without Guns
Peter Moss

"A world without guns is a world without violence", cry the gun-control advocates.

What is the evidence? The world before the invention of guns was not without violence and those places where firearms are restricted are not without violence either.

Giving up guns today does not translate into a non-violent world and those guns removed or confiscated can be replaced in short time by theft from the state, illegal imports or even home made. It is obvious that inanimate objects do not induce anyone to commit violence and removing one (assuming it could actually be done) simply means there are literally hundreds of other objects to take its place.

What will not have been removed are the factors causing crime and violence in the first place. In fact, a great deal of time, effort and money will have been wasted on removing guns and absolutely nothing will have been done about the social problems that are the root cause of crime and violence that the removal of firearms from law abiding citizens was promised to cure. Money and effort that could have been expended on the actual causes of crime that at least has a chance of working to reduce crime is being wasted with the only result possible of decreased citizens safety.

Britain, Jamaica, Brazil, Canada and Australia, recent attempts by governments to reduce crime and illegal use of guns by criminals and the deranged by confiscation or restriction have produced what can be expected - an imbalance of power between citizens and criminals. An imbalance that criminals are most grateful for and very keen to exploit by acquiring guns to induce fear and compliance in their victims and protect their profits from crime. There is little risk in crime when victims come with a government-backed guarantee of being unarmed and defenceless. Unfortunately, Government has chosen to ignore crime and instead put needed money and huge effort into ensuring law-abiding citizens who neither aid nor commit crime as the focus of attention.

There are many problems with gun control. Perhaps the foremost of these is the simple fact that, to achieve an objective by control, there must be a relationship between the two. Yet, nobody has shown or demonstrated a causal relationship between levels of gun ownership and crime. Guns do not cause crime. Therefore, law abiding firearm owners present no danger to the public and in fact reduce crime by being an unidentified hard target and risk to criminals.

Control of one (guns) is patently not control of the other (crime). This however does not mean that there is not an inverse relationship if guns are removed from society i.e. crime will remain unchanged. The empirical evidence that is ignored by government and gun control advocates is that levels of crime will often increase as shown by every attempt to control crime or the supply of guns to criminals since the invention of the gun. The explosive crime rate increases of Britain, Jamaica and Brazil are not just accidents, unexplained or the exception to the rule, they are the consequences and result of deliberately ignoring known dangers and sound research.

Government and gun control advocates tout the Firearms Control Act as a measure to control crime and reduce the supply of guns to criminals. The preamble of the Act states this as the reason for the Act. This statement is a complete and utter fabrication that has no basis of truth in any research anywhere in the world. Should the SAPS, Ministers or the ANC government disagree, let them present their evidence to the world and rightfully claim honour and prestige for South Africa for what would be a world first. That they have not done so already is an indication of deceit regarding the intentions of the Firearms Control Act. An Act government is determined without valid reason, to enforce on an unsuspecting and trusting public, while the crime rate continues to increase despite this Act.

South Africa, with a crime rate near the highest in the world and a depleted, under-trained and over-worked police force, simply cannot afford the complete waste or crime increase enforcing gun control legislation is creating. Nor should the R2.18 billion (admitted) and huge resources of work force and equipment be wasted on implementation or upkeep. This concentration of fruitless effort and waste will not place one criminal behind bars or deny criminals guns. Much needed police members must not be taken off the beat, crime investigation or other vital duties as they are now, to the detriment of crime control. As is their duty and purpose, the police should instead be attending to crime and the safety of citizens. While violence and criminality continue to increase due to this wasted effort, citizens suffer unnecessarily from murder, rape, robbery, hi-jacking, assault, mugging, theft and house breaking due to an uncaring, unconcerned irresponsible government and thankful criminals taking advantage of the relaxed pressure on crime.

A world without guns will never be a world without crime or violence because guns cause neither.

Criminals by their own choice are predators who will feast on easy prey such as defenceless victims and low risk of punishment. It would be incredibly naive to suggest that making the criminal's workplace safer by giving criminals a government backed guarantee that victims are not armed will reduce crime and violence or that criminals would not take advantage of unarmed victims. Believing that criminals will be deprived of guns obtained from a single source flies in the face of all common sense and evidence that even complete bans are useless. Suggesting that criminals will reciprocate and throw their guns away is simply foolish beyond belief. Yet, this is exactly what government and the SAPS are claiming, promoting and enforcing instead of investigating crime, arresting criminals and ensuring criminals face swift certain punishment.

Until citizens demand that government takes their safety and lives seriously by revising both the policy of blaming guns and the practice of gun control rather than crime control, criminals will continue to reap the benefits of much reduced risk in their violent aggressive criminal activities and very small chance of ever being punished.

[tombogan03884]

 For us this belongs in the "DUH" file, but for the rest of the population it should be reprinted in every paper in the country !
Good find Eric.

[C.O.T.U.S.]

Even if this were printed in every paper and taught in schools as required material, the lefties would dig up some crap to "disprove" it.
  It seems sad that history proves that people will subjugate themselves before taking responsability for thier own life and the defense thereof. 
   

[crusader rabbit]

So, you're trying to say that criminals WON'T stop doing bad things if guns are confiscated?  That can't be right. /heavy sarcasm

[Solus]

So, you're trying to say that criminals WON'T stop doing bad things if guns are confiscated?  That can't be right. /heavy sarcasm

Of course just confiscating guns won't stop the bad things, Fool, we will have to put up "No Crime Zone" signs for it to work.

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[ericire12]

Of course just confiscating guns won't stop the bad things, Fool, we will have to put up "No Crime Zone" signs for it to work.

Brilliant!

[r_w]

Of course just confiscating guns won't stop the bad things, Fool, we will have to put up "No Crime Zone" signs for it to work.

You owe me a new keyboard!