re: Bullets should be on the controlled substance list

slippery slope there buddy

A classic example of gun bans and homicide played out in the real world in Jamaica starting 30 or so years ago. They banned all civilian guns and implemented special police, courts and jails with strict draconian enforcement because they had a homicide rate of about 25/100,000.

Gun homicides went down, but overall homicides increased with the rate now hovering around 44/100,000. The primary weapons are now gangs of young thugs with machetes.

If they did what El Salvador did and made gangs illegal and jailed them immediately, the murder and crime rate would drop like a lead sinker.

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How about locking up the criminals instead of allowing them to be free range.

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The US ranks behind only EL Salvador, Cuba, Rwanda and Turkmenistan in per capita incarceration rates. Crime rates are historically low in the United States. Crimes involving the use of a gun is down to near historical lows but suicide rates with guns are making up the difference so deaths involving guns is about what it has been for the last 100 or so years. Locking more people up is unlikely to help....we already have far more of us in jail than any other industrialized, first world nation....some mental health care reforms would do a world of good for crime and suicide rates but lets just toss more and more people in jail...even when mental health care is FAR less expensive.....

Or wiped on a curtain because his mother wouldnt swallow such vile dumbassery.