Except shootings haven't increased violent crime has been on a continued decline since the 1980sThe increase in shootings has led me to question the morality of the NRA. Even if you allowed guns in every place, shootings could happen because someone could just snipe at random people and chaos erupts because nobody can figure out where the sniper is and this is excluding the possibility of a former military sniper who was pushed over the edge. Military snipers will move after a few shots
Furthermore the majority of the United States' gun violent stems from just a handful of major US cities like Chicago, Baltimore, Philly, all of which are Democrat strongholds for the last 50+ years and have the toughest gun laws in the nation.
The NRA backed a Virginia program in the 1990s called Project Exile. At the time Richmond was within the top 10 highest murder rates in the US.
Project Exile was simple, you got caught with an illegal gun you got 5 years in prison. And it was federal time, no parole.
During the first year of the program murders had dropped 33%, by the following year another 27%. It was a law that actually worked.
So what happened? The social justice crowd whined that it was disproportionally locking up black men who incidentally were also 80% of Richmond's homicide victims.
I want to expand on my above comment for a second, last Feb in Baltimore an 18 year old named Curtis Deal was shot and killed by police.
In the previous 30 days this guy had been arrested three times, once for drugs twice for carrying a gun including his last arrest.
He gets bail and by 3:00 PM the next day he hops out of a stolen car, armed with a stolen gun, and points it at the cops and is shot and killed.
So how many times do the cops have to keep arresting the same guy with a stolen gun?
