20/20 News Show Discussion of Gun Control Laws

Over the weekend, the news show 20/20 talked about whether or not it's a myth that gun control laws reduce violent crime.

John Stossell did a great report, and made it quite clear that it doesn't ever help, and nearly always increases crime to take guns out of the hands of the citizens. He said that since Washington passed its strict gun control laws in about 1976, their gun violence has gone WAY up while the national averages have decreased slightly. They also said that murder rates are the highest in the nation in those stats that have the most strict gun control laws.

They also talked about a book that studied the subject (wish I would have written down the title), that said they couldn't find a SINGLE instance where the passing of a gun control law ever reduced violent crime rates!

They interviewed criminals in prison that largely said that they really had no fear of the police, but that they really feared the average armed citizen. They laughed about gun control laws affecting them in the slightest. It was really a great story, and the media did a commendable job of covering the subject in an unbiased fashion, and the results completely sided with citizen gun ownership and against gun control laws.

Marvin
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killerbee
thats great to hear someone telling "our "side of the story. i get real tired of people saying " guns kill people". list goes on-and-on for the saying that if thats the case then, i can blam getting fat on my fork, or the many other sayings that go with it. but it really comes down to ignorance, we really cant completly blame some city folk who have never been around it and think that if they just took the gun away it could have stopped the crime. we know thats not the case but it is up to us to help inform these people who dont know this. now the anti's, they are just a bunch of jack a****, they do read these reports and have heard the facts and they are still trying to take them. the only way to support are side of gun control is to support are leadership groups that fight for us. joining the NRA for instance is a great start. i dont really like it when they start calling and asking for more and more money but any thing we do is a help.
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waynedevore
I like it the way it is in Montana, folks still drive around with uncased guns.
Here in Minnesota you better have your gun cased and in the trunk and if your in town better not have one at all. :>/
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StickFlicker
Here in Arizona you can wear a six-gun on your hip and walk around downtown Phoenix if you want. It's completely legal, as long as it's not concealed. You can also have a loaded gun sitting on the front seat of your car, again, as long as it isn't concealed and easily accessible. If you want to carry one concealed, you just need to take a class and buy the permit and you can do that too!
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AGCHAWK
Stickflicker, I saw the report too. I watched it more out of curiousity than anything else. I was curious as to what kind of spin that the media would put on the subject. I must say that I was impressed with the way they approached the subject and the way they presented it. Very informative and very well done!
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