University of Maine Engineering Professor Utters Stupidity: Banning Handguns Doesn’t Violate 2nd Amendment If They Don’t Provide Protection
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TIM BROWN
FREEDOMOUTPOST.COM
DECEMBER 1, 2018
Some university professors are actually a special kind of stupid. Take for instance a University of Maine electrical engineering professor who wrote an article for Bangor Daily News titled, “Why banning handguns makes sense,” in which he pontificated on why banning handguns doesn’t violate the Second Amendment.
Apparently, Associate University of Maine Electrical Engineering Professor George Elliott does not understand either the word “arms” nor the phrase “shall not be infringed that are contained in the Second Amendment. Furthermore, he does not understand the difference between permission and a God-given right, as outlined in our Declaration of Independence.
Elliott writes:
Gun violence statistics for the U.S. reveal that the handgun is, by far, the type of firearm most used to kill someone. Handguns are used in about 70 percent of all gun homicides with rifles and shotguns used in 7 percent and unknown firearms in about 25 percent. There were approximately 7,150 handgun homicides in 2016.
The U.S. is awash in handguns. Their numbers have been steadily increasing from an estimated 65 million in 1994 to about 111 million in 2015, an increase of around 71 percent.
Why so many handguns? My best guess is that many people believe that handguns provide some self-protection and they are readily accessible. It also seems that for many people handguns are just another adult, albeit dangerous, toy.
Several things here.
In roughly the same time frame, the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting data documents that from 1994 to 2017 the murder rate declined by more than 40 percent. During that same period of time, the violent crime rate decreased by more than 45 percent.
What does that tell us? The more guns that America has been “awash” in, the less crime drops, by nearly half!
Banning guns, even handguns will not reduce crime. It will only increase it as the only ones with guns are the criminals. See my report from a few years ago about where the real gun violence takes place in America here.
Furthermore, while yes, some of us do actually enjoy shooting guns, we don’t consider them a toy, but a tool. Are they fun to shoot? Absolutely, but that doesn’t mean we take them lightly and handle them in an unsafe manner. I’m sure though, there are such people in the world though.
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