Posted by JM Ashby
Oh wait, they were!
When you bring up the issue of gun control, no matter how vague or cautionary you are when doing so, you can count on immediately being informed that guns don't kill people. People kill people. You can also count on being informed that more guns equal less crime and that there would be less victims if only everyone were packing heat.
How then, do you explain this?
DETROIT — A gunman opened fire inside a Detroit police precinct on Sunday, wounding four officers including a commander before he was shot and killed by police, authorities said.
The gunman walked in through the precinct's revolving door shortly after 4 p.m. and opened fire indiscriminately at officers, police said.
This?
PORT ORCHARD, Wash. – A shootout in front of a Wal-Mart in Washington state left two people dead and two sheriff's deputies wounded Sunday afternoon, a sheriff's spokesman said.
And this?
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (Reuters) – A fugitive barricaded inside a house shot and killed two police officers and wounded a U.S. Marshal on Monday in a barrage of gunfire in St. Petersburg, Florida, authorities said.
St. Petersburg Mayor Bill Foster and Police Chief Chuck Harmon told a news conference the policemen died of gunshot wounds sustained while trying to serve a warrant on the man.
...Harmon said over 100 shots were fired in the gun battle with the suspect, who had an extensive criminal record and was wanted on an aggravated battery charge.
Each of these shootings occurred in the span of the last twenty-four hours and in each case the victims were clearly armed as they were all police officers. If these examples do not put a damper on the argument that more guns equal less crime, then consider this:
As of 2009, the population of the U.S. was approximately 307 million and the number of firearms owned by civilians was 300 million. If statistically speaking 90 out of every 100 people are already armed, just how much more armed does the country need to be before the theory that more guns equal less crime gains merit?
"If only one of the victims had been armed, this never would have happened."
-Republicans