Gun Laws for Criminals

Jul 29, 2015 | 0 comments

Gun Laws for Criminals are laws that actually stop crime dead

“When I say severe I mean the perpetrator should lose his or her trigger finger on the first offense, on the second offense they would lose their entire hand, and on their third and final offense they would lose their life.”

So we’ve done a great deal of fighting over gun laws and additional gun control. The fundamental error that leads to all of this infighting over greater restrictions is that people know these laws do not affect criminals in any way. This is due to lack of consequences, criminals know that they can get a gun faster, cheaper, and with zero traceability, illegally. Furthermore the criminal has very little to worry about other than some time in jail.

For the career criminal jail time is just a part of the equation, often times these criminals prefer time in jail over the difficult challenges of living in the real world. So what is another background check going to do? What is another waiting period going to do? Absolutely nothing, these are already non-issues for the career criminal because the vendors they are using to obtain the weapons  are found in back alleys not in reputable stores.

So where do we go from here? We go to extreme measures, illegal gun crimes need to be met with consequences so severe that there is never any temptation for these criminals to obtain an illegal gun in the first place. By limiting the scope of these laws to illegal guns you immediately factor out law-abiding citizens who have made a mistake with their gun, not that they wouldn’t be charged with the appropriate crimes for their actions but they would not fall under this very severe “illegal gun” law.

What do these “extreme” laws look like? The severity should be equal to someone who wants to perpetrate heinous acts like child rape or the production and distribution of child pornography and perhaps the severity of those laws needs to be raised as well as they’ve done in Louisiana. These laws should make the criminal fear illegals guns so much that they would never consider obtaining one. This is a very simple delineator, if you’ve got an illegal gun you’re screwed, if not regular charges apply for your crime. When I say severe I mean the perpetrator should lose his or her trigger finger on the first offense, on the second offense they would lose their entire hand, and on their third and final offense they would lose their life.

Now it is important for me to call out here that I am aware that this sounds very, very, extreme but the fact is that we do not have anywhere left to go other than to extremes. Our country is coming apart at the seams with gun violence and this violence is being perpetrated by criminals with absolutely no fear of consequences.

I am also aware that these sound like Middle Eastern consequences and I by no means support a system that is so broad reaching like they’ve implemented in some of these countries. Looking at the numbers comparing Saudi Arabia to the United States the crime rates are so much lower it is high time for us to consider consequences that actually matter to criminals. I think that in the case of the first offender, looking down at his or her dominant hand and seeing the absence of a trigger finger, coupled with the challenges that person would face having to learn how to do just about everything all over again would be a sufficient deterrent from becoming a repeat offender.

Ultimately I know that none of us want to see the addition of any gun laws, but in my opinion that is due to the fact that we all know that more gun laws that are aimed at law-abiding citizens will do nothing to reduce gun violence but actually stand to increase gun violence. Criminals will not obey the law, that’s what makes them criminals in the first place and until gun laws actually scare the criminals we will be doing nothing more than giving criminals more power by taking away or limiting our ability to protect ourselves.