Ok, before everyone goes off half baked making claims, and assertions about Gun ownership, and which segment of America is the fastest growing gun buying/owning slice of our society, take whatever time it takes to actually READ, as opposed to 'cherry picking', this publication authored by the Pew Research Center, current as of June 22, 2017.
Contrary to some who believe, "The largest growing segment of gun buyers are women and minorities", and that it's the testosterone filled "male masculinity" fueling gun ownership, this study, unless they have missed this somehow, does not show that at all.
Now, I am all in for sane legislation for laws that can keep firearms out of the hands of people with mental health issues, children, criminals and the like. Likewise, the 'laws' currently on the books should be universal, across the board, and pertaining to every State of the Union, and enforced for the very reasons they were enacted in the first place. It is ironic that the Laws, and 'rules', pertaining to ownership, registration, and the operation of a motor vehicle is universal across America, as is the requirements for a person to be allowed to operate a motor vehicle, and yet simply because of the vague wording/intent of the 2nd amendment each state can make up their own rules that pertain to purchase/ownership and use of a firearm. And no, I'm not discounting whatever Federal laws that firearms are subject to. The point is, there needs to be standardized laws across our nation that pertain to the purchase, ownership, and use of forearms if we expect to get a handle on this seemingly runaway gun issue. Of course even then, this would not address the mental health issue that seems to be a common denominator in just about every 'mass shooting' event. In fact, even someone who picks up a gun, and shoots just one person for whatever reason they may decide is a good one, is not acting in a 'sane', and 'rational' manner, so at that moment, and maybe all the time for all we know, that person could be considered a 'mental health' case. Mental health, and common sense cannot be legislated. Until America gets a handle on this mental health issue, the ease of procuring and keeping a firearm, the proliferation of firearms, and until we lose the 'gun slinger', 'can't exist without one on my hip' mentality of the wild, wild, west, we will just go on killing one another with wild abandon.
As I am often want to say after another shooting; 'We shoot, we cry, we reload, and we shoot again'.
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Contrary to some who believe, "The largest growing segment of gun buyers are women and minorities", and that it's the testosterone filled "male masculinity" fueling gun ownership, this study, unless they have missed this somehow, does not show that at all.
Now, I am all in for sane legislation for laws that can keep firearms out of the hands of people with mental health issues, children, criminals and the like. Likewise, the 'laws' currently on the books should be universal, across the board, and pertaining to every State of the Union, and enforced for the very reasons they were enacted in the first place. It is ironic that the Laws, and 'rules', pertaining to ownership, registration, and the operation of a motor vehicle is universal across America, as is the requirements for a person to be allowed to operate a motor vehicle, and yet simply because of the vague wording/intent of the 2nd amendment each state can make up their own rules that pertain to purchase/ownership and use of a firearm. And no, I'm not discounting whatever Federal laws that firearms are subject to. The point is, there needs to be standardized laws across our nation that pertain to the purchase, ownership, and use of forearms if we expect to get a handle on this seemingly runaway gun issue. Of course even then, this would not address the mental health issue that seems to be a common denominator in just about every 'mass shooting' event. In fact, even someone who picks up a gun, and shoots just one person for whatever reason they may decide is a good one, is not acting in a 'sane', and 'rational' manner, so at that moment, and maybe all the time for all we know, that person could be considered a 'mental health' case. Mental health, and common sense cannot be legislated. Until America gets a handle on this mental health issue, the ease of procuring and keeping a firearm, the proliferation of firearms, and until we lose the 'gun slinger', 'can't exist without one on my hip' mentality of the wild, wild, west, we will just go on killing one another with wild abandon.
As I am often want to say after another shooting; 'We shoot, we cry, we reload, and we shoot again'.
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