The Geek's Perspective on Crime in America
GeekWithA.45 - some simple math leads the Geek to the conclusion that a maximum of 0.12% of the population commits firearms crimes. All this law enforcement and violation of the Bill of Rights to attempt to control 1/800 of the people. He doesn't know the solution, but he knows it ain't what the gummint is doing now. [geekwitha.45]
I commented:
Nothing short of a complete change of human nature will completely eliminate violent crime. Remove the stops that allow us to defend ourselves, so that more violent criminals are stopped, dead, at the scene of their intended crimes by the guns of their intended victims, and I think that crime levels would likely be little if any higher than they are now. You'd probably still need some sort of organized resistance to organized criminals, but putting together a posse in response to each gang might do the trick.
Right. But those other
Right. But those other "crimes" aren't really. They are certainly violations of statutory regulations that our masters have decreed will have a criminal penalty, but they are not true crimes. True crime consists of intentionally harming a person or stealing a person's property, through force or fraud. Period. That we've allowed our "representatives" to declare non-crime behavior to be treated as crime is shameful. Crime cannot rightly be legislated into being. That's supposed to be why we have juries.
Right, they're legal crimes
Right, they're legal crimes but not moral crimes.
"... a maximum of 0.12% of
"... a maximum of 0.12% of the population commits firearms crimes."
That's the number comitting violent crimes with firearms. A lot more people commit crimes with firearms - it's getting problematic for gun owners avoid breaking gun laws.
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