In Orlando, Florida there were 33 rapes in a 9 month period. After people began flocking to the gun stores to protect themselves, the local newspaper got together with the police to offer a firearms safety course. In the following 9 month period, there were only 3 rapes. In addition, crime in general declined. The fact is, Orlando, Florida was the only U.S. city with a population of over 100,000 that had a reduction in crime that year.
Gun control is an emotional issue.
And it is the very nature of emotional arguments, such as those passionately put forth by well-meaning gun control advocates, that they bypass reason. Strangely, this same emotionalism somehow blocks the believers in such arguments from seeing their own contradictions and lack of logic. Americans are in grave danger of losing their rights to keep and bear arms. A vast gun-control police will go after citizens in violation of the law, because they are easier to catch than real criminals, and they satisfy the need for a scapegoat. We are told that rights have to be balanced with responsibilities.