Texas A&M Study Says Castle-Doctrine Laws Increase Homicides, Don't Deter Crime

[JDPriestly]

78. If some DUer has a gun and I don't, that is disparity of force.

I would rather the DUer would not carry the gun.

I've lived a pretty long life and never carried a gun or needed to carry a gun.

If I lived out in the boondocks with the bears, wolves and other predator animals, maybe I would need a gun. If I wanted to hunt deer (and I love venison), I would want to carry a gun for hunting.

But only the police and citizens with permits should carry guns on Los Angeles' city streets, and the permits should be handed out very carefully.

There have been a couple of gang shootings within a few blocks of my house recently. If only gang members carry guns, then you know if there is a shooting, chances are very great that a gang member did it. Makes solving the murder much easier.

If "good guys" carry guns on the streets of a city like LA, it makes the work of the police much tougher.

My perspective is definitely colored by the proximity of gang activity to my house. People who live in the country do not understand what it is like to live in a city like L.A.

When more guns are legal, more guns are on the streets, and more criminals have them.

The Republicans are criticizing A.G. Holder for the guns that were shipped to Mexico and ended up in the hands of criminals who used them to kill a lot of people.

But Republicans don't connect the dots.

The same principle that applied in Mexico applies here. The more guns you have in private hands, the more likely they will land, whether intentionally or not, in the hands of murderers, of criminals.

I support ownership of guns for sport and hunting but not for carrying to your local bar or on the streets in my neighborhood.