A Feb. 6 story, “States taking bipartisan action to keep guns out of domestic abusers’ hands,” needs to be taken in context. This story discusses states passing laws to strip gun ownership rights when someone has a protective order placed against him or her, or he or she has been convicted of domestic violence. Obviously, this doesn’t seem like such a bad idea, and I agree that in some cases this is necessary.
The story mentioned that more than 700 people are killed annually, and alludes that some of those killings could be stopped, or at least they would use a different method other than a gun, if that feels like an upgrade to you.
One point was missed, and that is that nearly 1,000 people, of which some were unarmed, were killed by police in 2015. If logic were being used, disarming our police would save more lives than these new laws.
Now I think most of you would agree, even the most ardent gun-control zealot, that policemen and women are honorable people and the least risky when it comes to allowing them to possess guns. But given that they are a much smaller percentage of the population, and yet kill more people, should clarify that numbers do not always justify the action.
