I found this image on Everyday Feminism's Facebook page. It is a great quote from Jon Stewart from The Daily Show and it really is a motto I want to implement into my life.
I hear so many people make arguments based upon complete ignorance. They hear one little thing and automatically think it is true.
For example, people like to talk about how Switzerland has a high percentage of gun owners and a very low crime rate.
(side note: I swear I have opinions on more than just guns. This is what has constantly been on my mind so forgive the multiple posts about it)
This is a true fact. Switzerland has almost 50% gun ownership in their country and they have such low gun related deaths per capita, the statistics barely exist.
Pro-gun people use this to prove their point that if everyone owned a gun, our country would be a safer place to live.
I would like to point out some points they tend to overlook rather by choice to make their arguments fit their case or because they are ignorant. (all facts are found here)
1. Switzerland requires every male to serve in their military. So every single man that is a Swiss gets training on how to properly use a gun. Not only how to use it but the dangers behind it and they understand that it is their military weapon.
America has no such law. Gun owners do not need to be trained at all.
2. They actually have a well regulated militia that our second amendment talks about. They do not have a standing army like we do, so their citizens actually need the military grade weapons for national defense. Also, only 2,000 members of said militia are allowed to have their military grade weapon at home. These are the people who guard the airports and the like.
America has a standing army so a civilian militia is almost pointless. And don't think for a second that you could defend yourself against the most powerful army in the world with your guns. Thinking that is complete ignorance.
3. They have background checks. They have limits on what type of guns can be purchased. They monitor how much ammunition you buy and what type. Certain ammunition is off limits to the average citizen. You need a permit to purchase guns.
America has no such laws. Seriously. The laws you hear about are state issued laws, not federal laws.
4. A gun vendor at a gun show, or a private sale, has to notify the government of the sale. There is no loop-hole. To purchase a gun at these shows, you still need a permit.
America has no such laws. Again, some states do, but the federal government does not.
5. They limit the amount of guns you can purchase at a time. You can only purchase three with one permit.
America has no such law. Actually, in Virginia, they just recently repealed the "one-hand gun a month" law because.....well, frankly I don't know why. I guess people want more than 12 hand guns a year? And we want to go back to being the state known as the "gun-running state"? Yeah, that is a title I just love having.
Yes, Switzerland has a lower gun related death rate then we do with almost as high of a percentage of gun owners as we do. But, they actually have common sense laws to help with that. We don't. That is why Switzerland has such a low rate of gun violence. Not because everyone has a freakin gun.
You want a place like Switzerland? Enact the same laws that you so hate so much because they only do a little bit to help so they are apparently "useless."
Any law that saves one life from a gun related death is a good law.
So no, I will not just be silent about these facts because it hurts your argument. Get a better argument then because I'm not going to shut up just because it breaks down your little ignorance filled world.
~You can't reverse the bullet from a gun, what's done is done.
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