The Myth of Gun Control

Word Press Blog written after Parkland Shooting

MYTH OF GUN CONTROL

The Myth of Gun Control

A myth is defined as myth=a widely held but false belief or idea.

MYTH: “Guns Kill People. “ FACT: “People Kill People”

The myth is that if we can control guns we can keep people from getting killed. From the very first murder, (which was before guns were invented,) people have killed one another. 622,000 people were killed during the civil war. Americans killed other Americans.

Weapons were not nearly as advanced as today’s weapons and yet brave young men were killed in masses in just a few years. The weapons were instruments that defended at times and then invaded other times.

However, it was both pride and prejudice, strife and hatred that was the root reason for this terrible waste of life. The mentality of the age more than metal shooting instruments caused this carnage.

In the same way, a mindset that feels that life is not worth living anymore is the leading cause of death by gunshot.

Two thirds of people who are killed in this country each year kill themselves. They do not feel that life is worth living anymore. It is the way out that they seek. Controlling guns is not the answer. It is bringing hope to the hopeless that will make a difference, not passing another gun law.

While school shootings, (Parkland Florida), mass shootings, (Las Vegas, Orlando,) capture our attention, there are far more people killed in one on one murder. Our streets are filled with gangs and drive by shootings that produce the news stories that fill our screens every day. Many of these thugs, and gangs take out innocent people that are sometimes in the right place at the wrong time.

Seriously, do you think that these types that already break the law in bringing illegal drugs, human trafficking and weapons into our communities will stop because we pass some sort of gun control law?

Chicago has some of the strictest gun control laws and yet they accounted for more than 20% rise in the US homicides in 2017.

Let’s do more than march on our streets. Marching may make us feel good and get press. We will then wake up the next morning and continue to read of precious young lives that are killed in the cross fire of dangerous gangs and thugs.

Our heart breaks at the 17 lives that were lost with a mad gunman at Parkland School. We all want to make our schools safer. Yet almost 1,700 women were killed by domestic violence last year. Do you realize that Congress ALREADY made it illegal for anyone convicted of domestic abuse-even a misdemeanor – to buy a firearm?

Better enforcement of laws we already have rather than more laws can make a difference in domestic violence. Build on these laws that we already have and do not waste time and money on making noise that produces nothing. Victims of Domestic Violence (many of age 18 to 21) should be able to defend themselves from those who will not observe the laws in the first place.

Don’t punish good people for the terrible actions of bad people.

To think that we can just control guns and that will solve these serious problems is just a myth.

Donnie Cantwell AKA, Charlie Crimebuster