So-called assault weapons are used in less than .0175% (if I’m correct) of homicides. Handguns are used in a most gun-related homicide and crimes. In most places you have to be 18 years to purchase a rifle or shotgun and 21 years old to purchase a handgun.
Almost all of the gun-related homicides in the United States are not mass-shootings, school shootings, workplace shootings, or terrorism related. Those shootings get the spotlight but they are far rarer than your everyday gun related homicide such as robbery, murder, assault, domestic, gang related, and others which make up the majority of your gun related homocides.
For many of the gun related crimes in large cities like Baltimore, Detroit, New York, and Chicago it is gang related and what no one talks about is the fact that most of the perpetrators are under 21 years old. You have many 13-19 year olds comitting murders with guns. Some are younger and some are older. But a vast majority are under 21.
What does that mean?
It means that these perpetrators can’t even own or purchase a handgun.
It means all of these gun laws, the so-called “gun show loophole”, background checks, background check improvements, raising the age to 21 for rifles, mental health checks, and all of the rest of them mean nothing since not only are these perpetrators already obtaining these weapons illegally through straw purchases, backs of car trunks in alleys, from burglaries, robberies, etc, they couldn’t even purchase them or own them in the first place. They aren’t going to walk into a gun store and ask to purchase a pistol. If a 13 year old walked into a Cabelas and attempted to purchase a pistol, I’m sure the employee would turn them away and most likely notify the authorities.
I’d like one commentator on a major news stations say:
“All of these proposed gun laws will have no effect on a large percentage of the gun related homicides because not only are these perpetrators obtaining these guns illegally in the first place, they couldn’t own or purchase them legally since they are not 21 years old and are underage. So they would never go through a mental health check, background check, or any other type of check because as soon as they attempted to buy one legally the salesperson would stop them since they are not old enough to purchase or own a handgun and thus the sale would be stopped and no background checks of any kind would be completed or even attempted!
So no matter what ‘checks’ you make, they aren’t going to go through them.”
Handgun purchase and background check laws aren’t going to affect someone who isn’t allowed to purchase a handgun in the first place but is intent on getting one.
The age to own a handgun could be 50 years old and the homicide rate in Chicago, Detroit, and Baltimore would not change at all.
Almost all of the gun-related homicides in the United States are not mass-shootings, school shootings, workplace shootings, or terrorism related. Those shootings get the spotlight but they are far rarer than your everyday gun related homicide such as robbery, murder, assault, domestic, gang related, and others which make up the majority of your gun related homocides.
For many of the gun related crimes in large cities like Baltimore, Detroit, New York, and Chicago it is gang related and what no one talks about is the fact that most of the perpetrators are under 21 years old. You have many 13-19 year olds comitting murders with guns. Some are younger and some are older. But a vast majority are under 21.
What does that mean?
It means that these perpetrators can’t even own or purchase a handgun.
It means all of these gun laws, the so-called “gun show loophole”, background checks, background check improvements, raising the age to 21 for rifles, mental health checks, and all of the rest of them mean nothing since not only are these perpetrators already obtaining these weapons illegally through straw purchases, backs of car trunks in alleys, from burglaries, robberies, etc, they couldn’t even purchase them or own them in the first place. They aren’t going to walk into a gun store and ask to purchase a pistol. If a 13 year old walked into a Cabelas and attempted to purchase a pistol, I’m sure the employee would turn them away and most likely notify the authorities.
I’d like one commentator on a major news stations say:
“All of these proposed gun laws will have no effect on a large percentage of the gun related homicides because not only are these perpetrators obtaining these guns illegally in the first place, they couldn’t own or purchase them legally since they are not 21 years old and are underage. So they would never go through a mental health check, background check, or any other type of check because as soon as they attempted to buy one legally the salesperson would stop them since they are not old enough to purchase or own a handgun and thus the sale would be stopped and no background checks of any kind would be completed or even attempted!
So no matter what ‘checks’ you make, they aren’t going to go through them.”
Handgun purchase and background check laws aren’t going to affect someone who isn’t allowed to purchase a handgun in the first place but is intent on getting one.
The age to own a handgun could be 50 years old and the homicide rate in Chicago, Detroit, and Baltimore would not change at all.
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