这就是chicken and egg的问题。不修宪,就不能控枪。因为有枪是宪法保护的basic right,不是privilege, 不能有太多的限制。
nightrider 发表评论于
The blog is one sided and myopic.
The issue is not that simple. Being one of many blind men touching an elephant, I present another perspective of the beast.
The crime rates are lower in regions where guns are more accessible to the general population. What is the obvious alternative? What if even one teacher had a gun? He could have defended the school and shot the intruding gunner and saved the children from being killed. If it is known in general that many people are armed, more crime perpetrators would have given it a second thought to unleashing violence on otherwise defenseless people.
Generalize the issue slightly. Had a general population more access to guns, the government would have thought twice before they try to exploit the people too harshly. Here is one fact, all the communist country citizens have absolutely zero access to gun. Their governments oppress their people without the slightest concern for backlash.