Quote:
Originally Posted by dksuddeth
you don't read alot of news then, do you? stories that talk about church shootings, or mall shootings, or the murder rate in big cities like chicago where, incidentally, handgun ownership is practically forbidden to non law enforcement personnel and city aldermen/women?
|
I do read a lot of news actually. Maybe not the usual alarmist reactionary "be scared" news, so it has less about individual shootings/murders than world events, but I like to think I keep up sufficiently to have an opinion. Mine is that guns don't belong in big cities.
Now, I can be wrong about this, and there's no real way for me to know whether (increased) licensed gun ownership would increase or decrease gun-related deaths, but I think it wouldn't help.
Chicago is not violent because handguns are too few, I think it has more to do with history, corruption, and poor funding for an effective police force.
As for guns in churches, well, I'd say that should be the church's choice. Their interpretation of a divine entity's rules about weapons are none of my concern, and I can choose not to go there.