Should guns in America be banned and illegal?

Answer 1

In my opinion, Americans have violated the priviledge of owning guns. I know it is in the Constitution, but the world we live in is not 1776 and banning guns would only make the problem with guns worse.

Answer 2

No, let me tell you I am democrat, but it would be wrong to take the guns away from responsible owners, I have owned many guns since I was about 8 years old and none of my guns have ever shot a human being or been involved in a crime. That being said, I have read the Toronto Star, when the crime statistics came out and that city only had like two murders for that year. It is a city about the size of Chicago maybe a little bigger. They do not have guns.
I think if the gun laws that we have were just enforced the way they should be that it would go a long way towards cutting down violent crime.

edit: I forgot to mention I am 60 so that is 52 years of owning guns.

Answer 3

no! in fact gun ownership by law abiding citizens should be encouraged. private guns stop more crime that the cops do. there are many many times each year where either the simply having a gun is enough to deter a crime and the actual use of a gun saves many lives a year [ more than are taken by the illeagal use of guns by a large margin] gun ownership is a basic right under the second amendment. t was put there for two major reasons. the 1st is to provide the people the means to resist a tryanical governemnt and the second was to allow them to protect themselves from harm from other sources. both reasons are still valid today. in every location that has allowed concealed weapons carry the violent crime rate had fallen. legally carried guns are not a problem and in many cases are the answer to the problem. it can take the police anywhere from a few minutes to an our or more to answer your 911 call. that's a long time when you're in trouble. it only takes a few seconds for a bad guy to ruin your life forever. another name for gun control is "the felon protection act". without a gun how is a 90 lb wman going to defend herself and her children from a 250 lb man that is breaking down the door in the middle of the night? do a little research. there's been some very good studies done lately that prove the liberal slant on gun ownership to be not only wrong but dangerous

Answer 4

I think they should be made illegal. There is no point in owning a gun. What service does it render? Nothing good comes from owning a gun. Hand gun violence is preventable but people quote the Constitution and say that it's their right. Well it also said that women and African Americans couldn't vote and that was changed so why not repeal the Second Amendment. It makes sense to me. There is just no logical reason to own a hand gun. I can understand that people use it to hunt and all but even then why.

Answer 5

Heck no. A gov't that doesnt trust its people with guns is a country I don't want to live it.

Criminals won't care about the laws anyways. If they were illegal they'd just get guns from Mexico or South America.

As for Korea and Japan they have a different culture and raised with better manners. They have knives and such but I'd bet our knifings are much more higher by percentage than theirs.

Answer 6

In a nation governed by the people themselves, the possession of arms to defend their nation against usurpers within and without was deemed absolutely necessary. This right is protected by the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution. A gun was an everyday implement in early American society, and Jefferson recommended its use. "A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun, therefore, be the constant companion of your walks." --Thomas Jefferson to Peter Carr, 1785. ME 5:85, Papers 8:407

Answer 7

Banning guns won't be the answer. Imposing very harsh restrictions on them may work (no automatic weapons for instance, what possible use do they have?) A ban on guns would never get through government. Also, people do kill people, but if you have a gun and it's easy, you're more likely to consider it.

Answer 8

They shouldn't be banned but they should be more difficult to get. We need to enforce the current laws,Increase penalties for people who use guns committing a crime, and limit the number of guns a person can purchase. I shouldn't be able to go to the gun store and buy as many guns as I want. You only need one.

Answer 9

Because any one get the guns in America, the crime rate is more. So it is better to ban easy accessibility to the guns.

Answer 10

Nah, but they need to be regulated; and manufacturers need to be held to a much stricter set of business ethics. There's lots of looking the other way as long as the profits don't wane, lots of lobbying in Washington for $h!t that doesn't make sense or aid gunbearing rights whatsoever.

Mad heads think even the smallest bit of regulation could lead to the abolition of firearms, but I'm claiming it wouldn't end up that way. The lives it would save far outweighs any legislative frustrations regulation would cause gun owners/advocates.