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I couldn't help it -- I commented. And it is awaiting "staff approval". I'm betting I don't get staff approval:
We know that the vast majority of gun crime is committed by gang members. So let's round them up and execute all current gang members. We will then pass a law that gang membership is a non-appealable capital crime. That will get rid of over 50% of all violent crime, firearm related and otherwise. We also have the issue that illegals murder/kill 8-10,000 Americans a year. And drugs come in the same way illegals do. We need to get rid of the drugs. Not this fake drug war, but really get rid of them. So we will put the military on both borders and anyone illegally crossing the border INTO the US will be shot on sight (we're a free country and anyone who wants to can leave but coming in is invitation only - it's called sovereignty). And then we make selling drugs a capital offense too. Sell drugs, meet the hangman. Now that will get rid of about 95% of our violent crime. Then we pass a law that the sentence for anyone committing armed robbery, rape, home invasion or battery goes to jail for life with no parole. I bet that brings our homicide rates and other violent crimes to below almost any place else in the world. Then I think the streets would be safe enough that except for sporting and hunting purposes we wouldn't need guns.
But wait! We can't do that! Why not? Because gang members and muggers and drug dealers and rapists all have constitutional rights, and rightfully so as it prevents tyranny. It prevents executions in the streets. It ensures due process for not only citizens, but anyone on our soil. Oh, come to think of it, I also have constitutional rights. I have the right to keep and bear arms. So until you bleeding hearts are ready to eliminate crime by eliminating those responsible for crime in this country by usurping their constitutional rights in the name of public safety and the common good, I'll ask you to stop trying to usurp my constitutional rights for the same reasons and keep your grubby, sheepish hooves off my pistol.