After what happened in Vegas, many people have taken advantage of the moment to pronounce again against the possession of arms. Okay, I ask a question, does possession of weapons change anything that happened? Do you really believe that the fact that Stephen Paddock committed that crime in that way is due to the possession of weapons and not to other factors? In my opinion there are people who take advantage of isolated tragedies to promote their political agenda. In other countries of the world, such as Switzerland, according to the "Small Arms Survey", with headquarters in Geneva, there are 46 weapons per hundred Swiss, and these types of crimes are nonexistent.
No physical object is aggressive in itself; any object, be it a weapon or a knife, can be used to attack, defend or for other purposes. It is as absurd to prohibit or restrict the purchase and ownership of weapons as to do so with the possession of knives. In any case, will all objects that a criminal use be banned? And if it could, how would that prohibition apply?
Attempts to disarm countries always end, by disarming people who generally use weapons in a proper way, and leaving the whole cluster of weapons in the hands of criminals and all those who break the law. Then, instead of prosecuting the true criminals, the state is in charge of pursuing citizens who have guns. If the laws limit or prohibit the carrying of weapons, it is obvious that criminals will not be willing to abide by them.
Citizens are ready to continue to support a political agenda that would lead them to have the accumulation of arms in the hands of the State, whose existence according to political philosophy is based on being a monopoly of legal force, and in the hands of the criminals who did not surrender their weapons and who managed to get even more.
Disarming citizens is to weaken the nation, the reasons for the events that occurred in Las Vegas, are cases that should be dealt with careful, can not simply make a rash decision, similar to what Caleb Keeter did in my opinion.
Remember that countries where the state is more repressive and the crime greater, are those where the right to bear arms is not defended.
Source:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/10/02/i-cannot-express-how-wrong-i-was-country-guitarist-changes-mind-on-gun-control-after-vegas/?utm_term=.894b743ad4ce
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/10/02/cbs-fires-lawyer-for-facebook-post-saying-las-vegas-victims-do-not-deserve-sympathy/?utm_term=.1933792b9ace