So much for gun control...
A disarmed populace are easy targets.
https://youtu.be/1CVvBSAUuZ0
IMO you're doing something similar to gun control advocates when they look at a tragedy and just start yelling for gun control.
Based on the link there was a shootout between Mexican security and suspected cartel gunmen, alleged members of the cartel de noreaste.
Supposing the allegations/story true, the problem is a lot bigger and more complex than "gun control."
I mean around 5-10 years ago more than 1/4 of the Mexican army deserted, many/most carrying off their weapons, and many going to work for the cartels.
IMO you seem to be oversimplifying a Mexican issue for the sake of promoting a personal/U.S. agenda, where what you're using isn't all that relevant or meaningful to the actual situation.
Might as well link footage from WWII or 9/11 and say "so much for gun control."
if you are going to allow people to own and carry weapons
Rights don't come from the government nor what other people "allow."
At least in the U.S., weapons (arms) are enumerated as a right in the constitution.
The people "allow" government the power and authority to limit the expression of rights to some acceptable degree.
Saying "if you are going to allow people to own and carry weapons" is a fundamentally flawed viewpoint of "rights," from the perspective of the U.S.
IMO it's like saying "if you are going to allow people to have children."
Permission is not needed to express rights. Permission is needed to infringe upon them. At least IMO.
Unfortunately, it seems to be a concept/viewpoint that is running rampant.
Attempting to force people to seek permission before expressing rights, as well as to seek authoritative legitimizing of expression and forced acceptance, especially of things that aren't clearly rights.
I think most people will support stronger penalties for the illegal use or possession of a firearm.
I wouldn't.
I would support shifting funding, preferably from social programs, to what Obama (and many other presidents, politicians, and bureaucrats have) proposed (but usually failed because they kept adding stupid crap, like what Obama did), to run background checks 24/7, with enough people to actually perform and follow up on them within the 3 day period.
IOW I would support government actually enforcing the laws they already have.
Career criminals laugh at our laws.
Execute a bunch and the rest may learn restraint.
Or they may simply escalate what they're doing.
In for a penny, in for a pound so to speak.
I'd like to see, Constitutional Carry.
Either purchase the weapons of your choice or, our government supply all willing and able adults with the weapon of our choice. Free safety, maintenance and proficiency classes
Personally, I like this.
Personally, I would have loved it if in (compulsory) high school they taught self defense and gun safety, as opposed to dancing, volleyball, basketball, etc. I mean we did dodge ball, fencing, and archery, why not karate and gun safety/target shooting.
Plus our high school was old, it had a shooting range in the sub basement/bomb shelter where they used to train junior ROTC.
In high school my friends and I took a hunter safety course before we bought our first guns. We had a list for turning 18 we did each time one of us had that birthday. Buy cigarettes/cigars, lottery tickets, get into the porn store, and buy guns.
We just assumed the safety course would help us. The mental process for taking the safety course was the same as looking up reviews online before buying a product, that knowledge is beneficial. The 10 rules of firearm safety haven't really changed in nearly 30 years.
