Getting guns off the streets does make communities safer. We can't stand here and say because we don't have the perfect solution, we shouldn't try.
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More guns are not the answer to keeping our kids and our communities safer.
Gun violence is a plague in all of our communities, and we must come together to stop it.
It doesn't matter if gun violence is down. We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets.
While different states and cities might look to different strategies for protecting public safety, we all can agree on this: we lose too many American lives to gun violence.
In truth, there is no rational argument for guns in this society. This is no longer a frontier nation in which people hunt their own food. It is a crowded, overwhelmingly urban country in which letting people have access to guns is a continuing disaster.
This is not the beginning of American civilization where we need guns because it's the Wild, Wild West... There should not be guns in our society, and we all know that; politicians know that.
The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose.
To be sure, hunters and sportsmen back gun rights. Beyond that, there are millions who see guns as a defense against fear - fear of criminals breaking into their homes or assaulting them on city streets.
More guns equaling more safety is a slippery slope, and what makes it so is human blood.
I truly believe that firearms in the hands of law abiding citizen's makes our families and our communities more safe, not less safe.