Title_II wrote:Reduce it to what rate? You say there is a problem, what is the goal?
Actions and measures are not goals. State the goal.
That's a fair point: My goal is simple, and that is to get the focus onto the real problem - criminals, and away from pointless tasks that won't do any good, but only harm LFO's.
At present the way I see it criminals are mostly getting a free run. Because GCA, the Greens and JH (from herein refered to as Gungrabbers) are too busy targeting us and fighting with us, and we're too busy defending ourselves and targeting them. The criminals are left with little to no attention on them to continue as they want.
There's another problem. People who have been affected by gun crime, or are concerned about gun crime only see one group of people that are trying to do anything about it - the gun grabbers. They have no option to back anyone else, so by default they fall into the gun grabbers hands.
When they look at LFO's they see us as a problem - in part because we're seen to show little concern about the crime, and more concern about our rights. They see us as the enemy because we're unsympathetic towards their concerns and fight them at every turn, and we offer no alternative to them. We're seen as only wanting to stop or hinder them.
I've had a chat to a number of people who are concerned about gun crime. I believe if they had another option or organisation to back that had better ideas many would. But there is no alternative option?
So my thought is to see whether or not there are other options. Who knows - maybe even an opportunity to create another group. One that isn't based on ignorance, emotion and other agenda's, but one that can come up with effective measures that will not hurt LFO's doing the right thing but have significant impact against crime. One that can see the concerns of those worried about gun crime, and at the same time also see the concerns about LFO's and come up with campaigns that help everyone involved.
This would help those wanting to target guncrime without having to back the gungrabbers. This would help LFO's not only by getting the target off our backs, but also hopefully dealing far harsher with those who would break into our houses and steel our firearms. And hopefully this would help have an impact into gun crime as well. (Or at the very least stop some of those scumbags from reoffending).
But to get there first we need to have better solutions to put forward.
At present, we're simply fighting amongst each other. Give the gun grabbers a different enemy to go after, and the solutions. (Let's face it, at present they're too ignorant, emotional, etc to see outside of targeting LFO's with their agenda to help themselves)... so instead of fighting them, why not steer them in a different direction.
It's far easier to change the direction of a moving object than it is to stop and reverse it...