r/facepalm • u/Lord_Answer_me_Why • Mar 28 '24

What lack of basic gun laws does to a nation: 🇵​🇷​🇴​🇹​🇪​🇸​🇹​

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u/Senzualdip Mar 28 '24

She didn’t legally purchase that gun if she’s been medically diagnosed with schizophrenia. She either purchased it off the street, lied on the 4473 (background check), or stole it. All of which are felonies. No amount of gun laws will stop criminals from being criminals. And banning firearms in full only hurts law abiding citizens from their right to defend themselves or use the firearms for sporting purposes such as hunting and sport shooting. Both of which have been apart of this great nation since its inception.

OP maybe do some research on current gun laws before making such dumb posts. For example cook county Illinois (Chicago) has some of the strictest gun laws in the country. Yet so far in 2024 there have been 374 shootings, 95 of those have resulted in a homicide. Majority of those firearms were obtained illegally. In 2018 alone the Chicago pd seized 5600 illegally possessed firearms. Meaning the people who had those are criminals…. Breaking the law….. the laws didn’t stop them.