Guns & the law [View all]
The law serves a vital purpose in society. Laws act as guidelines for law enforcement. Laws dictate who can and should be detained and referred to the courts for alleged violations. Laws then act as criteria for prosecutors and juries in the fixing of charges and determination of guilt.
The law also serves another purpose for society in general. Those inclined to remain lawful can use our laws as a key to do so. We have laws like speed limits. The law abiding among us remain within the speed limit when we drive. The speed limit does not cause those who don't care to remain lawful to change. The speed limit guides those who do in knowing how to remain lawful and guides the police and courts in fairly convicting those who don't.
How does this relate the guns? Gun control laws don't cause us to "become" good lawful people.
Laws are important but they don't turn bad folks into good folks. I don't know how anyone else would feel but attributing my own guilt free status regarding not having murdered anyone with a gun simply to the existence of a law is very insulting.
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