Making a Case for the Use of Handguns/Pt1
Since handguns exist and are widely used today in the US, and have proper and improper uses (what these are sometimes subject to heated debate), then all proper uses should be legal - and improper uses, illegal.
In the latter case, punishments prescribed should be commensurate with the degree with the improper use age.
Here, we must be rational.
My belief: it is beyond question that guns came into being for the same reason bows and arrows did. Guns replaced them as a matter of efficiency- to kill game to eat, threatening enemies, protection of families, life and limb. And, as in the operation of most civilizations, to conduct war.
At home, in civil life, shooting mad dogs, venomous snakes, wild beasts threatening families citizens running amok threatening civil life come to mind.
Without firearms, the history of the past 500 years would be vastly different. Gaining a foothold on North America against native Americans of every sort would have been more difficult and costly.
Today, press reports over 300 million guns reside in America, more than enough to equip every America with at least one. Some city police statistics indicate 1 in 5 Americans regularly carry a pistol to protect ourselves from crime, and in Philadelphia just being caught with one justifies one year in prison.
So, guns are a reality, and thus far, no one has proposed ANY reasonable or legal solution to eliminate or control them that thus far offers the least bit of hope of being as equally effective against criminals as it would be against a willing and law abiding public.
In the latter case, punishments prescribed should be commensurate with the degree with the improper use age.
Here, we must be rational.
My belief: it is beyond question that guns came into being for the same reason bows and arrows did. Guns replaced them as a matter of efficiency- to kill game to eat, threatening enemies, protection of families, life and limb. And, as in the operation of most civilizations, to conduct war.
At home, in civil life, shooting mad dogs, venomous snakes, wild beasts threatening families citizens running amok threatening civil life come to mind.
Without firearms, the history of the past 500 years would be vastly different. Gaining a foothold on North America against native Americans of every sort would have been more difficult and costly.
Today, press reports over 300 million guns reside in America, more than enough to equip every America with at least one. Some city police statistics indicate 1 in 5 Americans regularly carry a pistol to protect ourselves from crime, and in Philadelphia just being caught with one justifies one year in prison.
So, guns are a reality, and thus far, no one has proposed ANY reasonable or legal solution to eliminate or control them that thus far offers the least bit of hope of being as equally effective against criminals as it would be against a willing and law abiding public.
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