How is this: I'll post this from another thread.
Here is my two-cents worth. I am a trained gunsmith (retired because of carpel tunnel) and a life member of NRA. No new legislation is going to rid the U.S.A. of guns. We have a gun culture. People like to shoot targets, silhouettes, skeet, trap and a myriad of competitive shooting: long range, 3 gun, cowboy, etc. I don't even know of them all. Some are public and some are police or military.
Back to the gun culture: Besides shooting many people are collectors. Some are just amateur collectors that keep guns with only a sentimental value. Most collections have some sentimental pieces, but have value pieces also. The criminals could care less about gun control laws as they don't obey laws anyway. No law will deal with the entrenched guns in our society, short of a police state. Some of the schools here in Oklahoma are allowing the staff the carry concealed guns; and they have posted at the schools signs warning that a shooter will be met with lethal force, if necessary.
The 42 states, that allow and respect the Right to Carry, represent 74 percent of the U.S. population. There are 16.5 million people registered to carry arms. The violent crime rate is down 51 percent. From 2007 to 2015 concealed carry permits increased by 215 percent. During that same time frame, the murder rate dropped 14 percent. In Florida and Texas only one in about 42,000 permit holders are convicted of firearm violations. It seems the wild-west scenario the liberals projected didn't happen. Two-thirds of published, peer reviewed studies have found that Right to Carry laws reduce U.S. violent crime rates.
