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Write-up by Bruce Schwartz

The second amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees every American the right to bear arms. Has any law ever been so ambiguous? What are arms? What does it mean to bear them? At least with the initial amendment we know precisely where we stand: Freedom of speech. It couldn’t be any clearer. But, the proper to bear arms leaves the second amendment open to distinct interpretations. We want gun permits to carry a concealed weapon. Do we will need knife permits? No. However both can, and frequently do, cause death. We can own a gun, or a rifle, or a sub-machine gun, or a machete, and dozens of other tools to kill, even our own bare hands. So, gun control is a debate in our country that makes no sense unless you broaden the ban or acceptance to incorporate all instruments of death.

According to Population Stats, www.xist.com, America has the highest crime rate in the world. Everyday 30 people in the United States are murdered by a gunshot. That means 11,000 people. Nonetheless, there are a lot more than 25,000 murders every year in the United States. In other industrialized countries, Germany has 381 every single year, France 255, Wonderful Britain 68, Australia 65, and Japan 39. Based on population to make it a fair assessment, it turns out to be guns in America murder 1 out of 25,916 individuals every year. Compared to Canada where the amount is 1 out of 190,387, and 1 out of 864,546 in Wonderful Britain, and only 1 out of three,254,508 in Japan, America is the killing field of the world.

Gun expert Robert J. Spitzer, political science professor at SUNY Cortland and author of the book The Politics of Gun Control points to America’s ‘mixed ethnicity.’ “Our diverse cultural background, composed of numerous different ethnic, religious, social, and other groups leads to inter-group rivalries, suspicion, hatred, fear, and at times violence,’ Professor Spitzer said. “Most other Western nations, by comparison, are a lot more homogeneous than the U.S.”

Which brings us back to the thesis that America does not want a gun control law it requirements a crime control law.

The number one concern in America today is safety: Safety from terrorists, safety from drugs and violent drug dealers, safety from gangs, and safety from those whose evil approaches affect our lives and our children’s lives everyday. Nonetheless, we have no safety of which to speak. Our police departments are as overwhelmed by the size of the enemy as are our troops in Iraq. With out safety, we are prisoners of our own society. Safety and security are much more crucial than any other problem, for, with out it, we cease to live. We merely exist. We should 1st feel secure, and be secure, before we can think about curing our other ills. With 14,000 of the homicides each and every year being committed without having guns (11,000 with), we ought to look at the larger picture.

We need to build far more maximum-security prisons. Enough so that everyone convicted of first-degree homicide, or of a felony three times, is sent there for the rest of their life, without any chance of parole. (There is no reason to invest millions of dollars on each death row prisoner’s appeals that last ten years or longer when it has been proven not to be a deterrent and when housing them is substantially much much less pricey.)

Inside a federal partnership with choose American manufacturing businesses, these businesses for the function they would be needed to do would pay these prisoners minimum wage. The product they produce would then be infused into mainstream American commerce. In return for these jobs, the prisoners would pay the government for their room and board, and any security, medical, and utility fees. If the prisoner has any dependents, their paycheck would reflect that deduction. Cut off from society, these prisons would be a society of their own. Away from us forever.

Crime control, rather than a gun control, is a stricter and more powerful deterrent than the failed alternatives. It would not just deter murder with guns, it would deter murder with any type of weapon, as well as rape, aggravated assault – ALL felonies. It would minimize crime and get these criminals off America’s streets as soon as and for all, saving the American taxpayer substantially in law enforcement: Funds that will instead be utilized to build and staff these new prisons. Our safety is what we have to take care of – what we ought to take care of – before we do anything else. We owe it to our children.

We teach our young children to have pride in America. We teach our children safety initial. We teach our children about very good and evil, appropriate versus wrong. What should our young children be thinking when they see murder soon after murder on the news, and walking the streets with the fear of a drive by shooting, or of becoming abducted? We are raising a society born of fear and mistrust. This is why we require a stricter crime bill. This is why we must – we have no other selection – take back our country from these criminals.

Yes, Americans really should be able to have handguns in their home for protection, as lengthy as it is responsibly locked up and away from children. Yes, Americans really should be able to have rifles to hunt for food. However, these are still weapons of destruction and they ought to be registered with individual background checks. There is completely no want or reason for any person, other than law enforcement and the military to have assault weapons that are aimed to violently kill masses of individuals. We need to compromise via widespread sense. We need to recognize and follow the accurate intent of our forefathers when they penned the second amendment to the Constitution.

All it takes is the determination, the moral strength of our elected representatives, to enact tougher laws, so we can lastly take back our country and make it a secure haven once again for every American man, woman, and child.

About the Author

Bruce Schwartz is a political activist and author of the #1 Amazon bestseller, THE TWENTY-1st CENTURY. His website http://www.thetwentyfirstcentury.com is offering a three-day, 2-night vacation to 1 of 90 destinations nationwide for buying a copy of this timely and topical novel.

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