A Black Guy's view on gun violence.
Tough gun laws create a cycle of violence you don't see when gun ownership is not arbitrarily criminalized or made to be a privilege instead of a right. When you tax a right it becomes a privilege of those who can afford to pay the tax. Those who can not afford the tax but still exercise that right are deemed criminals and forced to respond as such when confronted. Carrying an illegal gun is much different than carrying a legal one and you have a much different feeling when around the police depending on which kind of gun you own(legal or illegal). Wouldn't it be nice if we did not criminalize inanimate objects? Committing a crime with a gun is illegal whether the gun was legal or not so why make the distinction? To preemptively criminalize anyone who has not paid the tax to the royal class of politicians. It's always a racket.
umm that's racist?
Preemptively criminalizing the poor denies them the right to defend themselves and since minorities have a lower average income than non-minorities guess who that ends up skewing toward... Beyond all this I know that bullies don't pick on the strong.
Those people who don't carry a gun at all because they don't want to pay the taxes they pass off as (expensive in some states) concealed carry permits are now defenseless
Violent crime is most often an extreme form of bullying.
Weak or apparently weak targets are selected. You watch the news. The only time the victim was not a "perfect victim" is in the case of gang violence...(Also due to over regulation of guns and drugs ) Gangs spring up out of drugs being illegal, They didn't exist until they had contraband to push. We are increasingly making weed legal and people are buying it from middle aged white women not illegal Mexican cartels.
Taxes on guns are a backdoor means of gun control. See Operation Chokepoint for other examples of politicians attacking the right of self-defense covertly.
The poor will always suffer from government interventions the most. As you state, the poor cannot afford the excess taxes, fines, and regulations.
But the poor are going to be the victims of crime, especially violent crime, at higher rates. There is a proven correlation between population density and crime. There is just something about being packed in together that heightens human friction.
As far as the black community suffering more from gun control, there are only a couple of things to say:
Back to gun control, we can look back to over 30 years of Republican cooperation with the Democrats to restrict American rights of self-defense...then they wonder why people speak of the New World Order, or as I say, the leftist/globalist alliance
Great post!
Cute gun, but I like a little more ban
Excellent article...upvoted!
some like their ammo hot
Give it up to MatrixD.! This was indeed a great post. I like what you stated - " Committing a crime with a gun is illegal whether the gun was legal or not so why make the distinction"? Ha, Damn bullies!
I would like to resteem this post but unfortunately I don't believe guns shall be legal to anyone! We as humans never seem to learn from our past mistakes. History continues to show us that violence especially when involving weapons, doesn't solve anything. You kill or injure someone and it will come back to you for whatever reason the case may be! Even if your defending yourself! You shoot some ones family memeber and someone now lost their loved one(whatever the reason) and now they after you!
We need to figure ways to be real adults and talk things out amongst each other. But, I know that this won't happen in this current brain-washed society we now live in;(
I had an old chorus to a song I wrote when first starting to make music and it goes "If you shoot me guess I die like a King and you live like a coward"....