With the horrible theater shooting in Colorado and the cries from the left for stronger gun control laws in order to prevent anything like this from ever happening again, I started wondering if they have a point. So, I did a quick internet search, and one of the first hits was from wiki.answers.com: “What are the top ten major crimes in America?” Did I verify that this list was 100% accurate? No, but for the purpose of this blog, it’ll do just fine! All I wanted to see is if stronger laws or removing the common denominator from these crimes in order to reduce the crime rate would be a viable solution.
Here are the Top 10 Crimes in America (as listed by http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_top_ten_major_crimes_in_America):
1. Homicide
2. Domestic Violence
3. Battery
4. Sexual Conduct with minors
5. Assault
6. Robbery
7. Computer Theft
8. Forgery
9. Identity Theft
10. Drugs
So, using the same line of thinking that it will fix the problem if we take away or limit the guns, let’s try it with these crimes:
1. Homicide (the deliberate and unlawful killing of one person by another; murder) – I see the common denominator here being “people.” If we limit how many people are available to either kill or be killed, this would greatly reduce the homicide rate. There are several ways to do this; genocide, euthanasia, and abortion are all viable ways that we could reduce the overall population, thereby reducing homicide.
2. Domestic Violence – outlaw traditional marriage as well as common-law marriage, same-sex marriage, etc. We may need to consider banning roommates also. If people are not coexisting, they cannot be violent towards one another…problem solved!
3. Battery (an intentional, permitted act causing harmful or offensive contact with the “person” of another) – make it harder to become a person or altogether eliminate people!
4. Sexual Conduct with minors – Since we’ve already established with gun crimes that it’s not the fault of the shooter (but rather the problem is the gun), we must assume that the sexual predator is not at fault, but rather the minors. So maybe the answer is making it unlawful to be under the age of 18?
5. Assault – once again, if in gun crimes the gun is the problem (and not the gun user), then it would only make sense to assume that in assault crimes, the real problem is the knife, chair, baseball bat, frying pan, fist, elbow, foot, or knee. All of these things should not be allowed. Or at the very least, in order to own a fist, elbow, foot, knee, etc, you need to have a full federal background check. If the government deems you unworthy, all fists, elbows, feet, knees, etc. should be removed immediately!
6. Robbery – this one is easy! If there is nothing to steal, than nothing can be stolen. Take away ALL private property!
7. Computer Theft – SEE ROBBERY
8. Forgery – outlaw free enterprise and capitalism, which in turn would make nothing worth forging/copying.
9. Identity Theft – people should not be allowed to have identities because it tempts others to want to steal it, and as we’ve established, it’s not their fault! Plus, an unplanned advantage of this solution is that if no one has an identity, it eliminates all criminals by default…therefore wiping out all crime! If you have no identity, how can you be accused of a crime?
10. Drugs – outlaw drugs…wait, a lot of them already are? Make them even MORE illegal..and the ones that are currently legal, outlaw them too!
In closing, it goes without saying that if we start taking things away and making more and more laws, things will get better! Because people who break the law will…well, I guess they will be forced to…wait, I thought this made sense at first because I obey the law and therefore more laws just take away more of my freedoms. But if you make more laws for people who don’t obey the law, that will in turn, I guess, will do nothing for the problem whatsoever…hmm? Maybe they don’t have a point…
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Good point.
The way liberals think is ‘stupidity’ and outright ‘insanity.’ Reducing the population thru genocide, euthanasia and abortion IS homicide. That’s the problem not the solution. Treating criminals like they’re not at fault for their own actions is the problem not the solution. Most liberals’ motives are not sincere. When they say we need more gun control they really don’t mean it for the sake of reducing crime. They use these violent incidents to impose their ‘stupid/insane’ agenda down law-abiding citizens’ throats. It’s like a two-edged sword. They speak with forked tongue. Their motives are insincere and diabolical. Their real motive is to punish the innocent for what the guilty do and enslave the innocent. See website: http://www.haasstrep68.com page 4 for the history of treason.
I don’t really believe that their motive is to “punish” anyone. I Do believe, however, that their motive is to eventually completely disarm the general population of the country, so that there will be nothing to prevent them from enforcing their political ideas and will on the rest of us. If we are unable to protect and defend ourselves, because we have no weapons, there will be no stopping them.
You made some great points here, Phil!
Do liberals have a point?
Yes but if they comb their hair just right, no one will see it!
Thanks, jb. I needed that.
Made my day.
Great post, I almost busted a seam reading this.
Could someone please provide an example of gun control laws preventing guns from getting into the hands of criminals?
A city in Georgia, they don’t prevent guns from getting in the hands of criminals, but they do have a law making the head of household own a gun. As a result, with the exception of a non-citizen spree where 3 people were killed, there has only been one murder since 1982.
You are talking about Kenisaw, I believe.
Obama’s Fast and Furious put assault weapons in the hands of Mexican drug cartels, and they murdered a few hundred Mexicans and a US Border Patrol Agent on US soil.
No gun control law, except President Obama authorizing weapons to be sold to Mexican criminals to commit acts of Murder.
Any Republican doing this and he’d be Impeached and Removed from Office. President George W. Bush immediately cancelled a program when they found it was not working. At least those weapons had GPS tracking devices on them. Obama’s program was uncalled for, unjustifiable, and in Contempt of The People of the United States of America.
Isn’t going to happen. That part of our population that moves in and out of the darker side of our society will always be able to find weapons. Especially when there are elements in our political system that resells confiscated weapons back to them, or allows shady dealers to sell any type of weapon out of the trunk of their car in the mall parking lot.
And, more laws prohibiting responsible citizens from arming themselves in order to protect themselves will most likely produce higher crime rates against those unarmed citizens,
How much of this connects to Obama’s Fast and Furious?
If you were talking to me, none, it was a along time before F&F.
No, no point it’s common sense that the more you take away the more criminals show themselves and the more we good people can’t defend ourselves and that is what it’s about, There not stupid, they know exactly what they are doing.
Good article, Phil. The common denominator in those Top 10 crimes is a human. Since government interfered with parental discipline, claiming it to be abuse, this is our result. We invited government into our homes; it stayed and took over. Shame on us.
Really funny how the Liberals continue to talk the same crap and people actually listen and believe it. Maybe, Just maybe we should outlaw outlaw being STUPID, that way we wouldn’t have to deal with all these idiots anymore, they would be illegal….
I believe that the liberals are mislead especially by the government. They are the people who tend to believe anything the government puts out there. If the government was to say that eating oranges four times a day was unhealthy, they would never buy another orange again in their life’s. And they would be the loudest on how we shouldn’t either. I just think they are easily lead.