I remember a world without gun control, or nearly so. Crime rates were low. We did not lock our doors. Anti-Aircraft guns and Anti-tank guns and ammo could be ordered through the mail without a license. It was only 45 years ago.
“A Dude From The Rainy Left Coast” asks if I would prefer to live in a world with no gun controls or one with reasonable gun controls, and why.
We had a world with no gun controls, once. A world in which you could hop a coastwise trader in New Orleans, and get off in any port north of Guyana. With your life preserver hanging on your belt, and without as much as a raised eyebrow from anyone.
A world where wide areas of the world had four or five murders a year for every million population. Most as a result of some dude violating, or attempting to violate, the ‘unwritten law against adultery.”
That was a world where a man who wanted to could cut a stout walking stick in Calais, put a life preserver in its holster, and walk to Moscow and beyond. With the good wishes of everyone he met, including the border guards.
Today, we have what generations past called “reasonable gun control.” While gun control laws have become less strict, and violence has responded by becoming less frequent, we know what the results of “reasonable gun control” are. Sky high murder and violent crime rates as well as overmuch government hostility.
Within reason, you can have any violent crime rate you want by manipulating the gun laws. Absolute gun bans result in violent crime rates as bad as Venezuela. Or worse.
Semi-absolute gun bans with large quantities of forbidden weapons coming in from the outside results in Chicago.
And so on down the severity scale until you get to Kansas City, 1895. Which needed only modern health care and sanitation to be a near ideal place to live. And to live without idiotic, and enforced, restrictions on who could buy a gun, or where they could take it.
Source: Extranosalley.com
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