gun control...discussion.?

Question

is it necessary or do you feel otherwise?

the amendment was written for a time when guns were a necessary part of life ie. hunting for food and protecting your property.

the right to carry a gun was not given to you by god.

and why a gun for personal defense? from what?

just a question people no need to get touchy...but thanks for your opinions nonetheless...they are all very good arguments.

Answer 1

I am against gun control. I live in Nevada, where you can even buy fully automatic weapons if you pass a background check that takes about a year. I don't have one yet (they're pretty expensive), but I'd like to buy one some day. I also would like to get a concealed handgun license, but I haven't done that yet, either.

I have only two guns, a shotgun for shooting trap and skeet, and a .40 caliber handgun for personal defense and target practice. I would like to buy more, when I have the money. I like the mechanics and the craftmanship of the weapons, and the history of them. I never want to take a human life, but if I was in my home or traveling some dark highway in the middle of nowhere I would like the ability and right to protect myself.

I think that we should enforce the currrent laws on the books more instead of making more of them. I completly agree with felons or mentally unstable people not being able to purchase weapons. I've seen reports of crime rates going down in states where a concealed carry law has been passed. Criminals think twice about breaking the law with weapons when their victims might be armed. I heard that England's crime rate skyrocketed when they outlawed gun ownership. A country's government might start with just banning handguns, then a little later include rifles, then before you know it all of the citizens are disarmed. Except for the criminals and the government, of course. Sorry to borrow an old line, but when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.

The Second Amendment to the Constitution seperates the U.S. from all the other countries of the world. I know that we live in a diffferent world now than it was in 1776, but that doesn't matter. Our constitution is under attack, and our civil rights are being chipped away, little by little, every day. Free speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and all of the other freedoms inculding the right to bear arms are very important to all of the citizens of this great country. Freedom has a price, and not all people agree with each other. I would rather have the freedom to live the way I choose instead of having the goverment telling me how to live my life.

Answer 2

Gun control doesn't work especially in the United States because there are already so many guns in homes. Stopping production wouldn't even do anything. Alot of people who have guns though have several, like I myself have 6 Rifles and 4 hand guns for some reason when I don't really need any.
Taking away guns wouldn't work also. The guy who has to go door to door asking people to surender there weapons would get shot dead in the first day.
People shouldn't be scared of the government but the government should be scared by the people.

Answer 3

Waste of time & money and not enforced now. Criminals are criminals because they break the law. Why is another law going to bother them? Gun control is presented as a cure all for those who can't solve other social ills that really cause crime( bad education, lack of morals, bad parents, drugs, gangs, lack of self control, revolving justice). Gun control also is historically discriminatory. As far back as the Jim Crow era, measures were made to disarm the black population so that they would not resist oppression. Gun control as a failure was most claerly seen in Hurricane Katrina. With Police & civil power absent the thugs took to the streets to loot & steal. Rather than arrest the thugs, the mayor tried to take the guns of legal owners with no the means of protection from evil. Courts found this was as illegal as it sounds. Washington DC and Chicago have strong gun control laws yet crime remains high and the laws are not enforced.

Answer 4

I still hunt for food. People haven't gotten less evil (Remember the looting after Hurricane Katrina). And we have had mountain lion attacks in this state. I don't want to fight off an attack with a knife let alone my bare hands. A mountain lion chews up a person pretty bad.

The reason the Second Amendment was written was to check the power of the National government, and to allow the individual to preserve their God given right to life from those who would take it.

It takes a Los Angeles Police Officer 15 minutes to respond. A person can bleed out in thirty seconds.

If you don't want to carry don't that's your choice. But according to Roe v. Wade we have the right to choose and to privacy. Allow us that want to go home to our families that right to life recognized in our Founding document.

Answer 5

If it wasn't for guns you wouldn't be saying what you just asked.Its Freedom,and the back bone behind it.Criminals will always get guns to rape,rob and pillage.I just wish we all could be packing,grandma would be mugged less.They already proved it in a town in Florida.It was law to be carrying.Crime there went to zero.How do you explain that.Criminals figuring everyone packing, there is a good chance I'll get some lead in my ******.Now that sounds like sound deterrent.Just make everyone accountable for their shots.Like we're not held to that standard now.Just my opinion.

Answer 6

I am favour of some kind of gun control. I don't feel safe in a community where everybody around me is carrying guns, including anybody who is drunk, angry or mentally unstable. I think the gun control in Canada is sufficient ... with the exception of the long-gun registry which is being dismantled because criminals do not register their guns.

Answer 7

I believe it is my constitutional right to own a firearm. It keeps our government on its toes. If all guns are registered and used for i.e. hunting or target practice then I see no problem. I do believe there is some room for discussion in regards to some weapons.

Answer 8

my gun control is pretty good with my 45 auto ! every person has a god given right to defend their life or the lives of they're family. that is a right gaurenteed since the founding of this country. a right that is unable to be taken away from anyone.

Answer 9

The UN does not like our policy of allowing private citizens to own guns...which is a great argument TO OWN GUNS! I live in Kentucky, grew up with guns and to respect them and my fellow humans.

Answer 10

I LOVE MY GUNS I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT PART ABOUT WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT SELF DEFENSE PEOPLE GET ROBED AND KILLED ALL THE TIME HELL I HAVE HAD ABOUT 4OR 5 TIME BY BLACK GUYS WHEN I AM WORKING I DELIVERY PIZZA THEY LOVE TO ROB US BUT NOW I CARRY MY COLT 45 1911 EVERYWHERE I WONT BE A VICTIM ANY MORE AND I STILL USE MY M1 GARAND AND 50.CAL BARRETT RIFLE FOR HUNTING