what's your view on firearms?

Question

Recently my government strictened the regulations on firearm ownership. Now I am not a Gun nut but I do follow these people in their reasoning that if some one wants a weapon. they will find or make one. Through my carreer in the army I had a descent experience with firearms,and I know what they can do. And I would prefer to be shot with a 9 MM pistol(restricted or forbidden in most european countries) than with a 12 gauge hunting rifle(still allowed in most countries) or be cut open with a knife!!
What's your view. Absolute ban for the public. Total freedom. Or a logically restricted system?
(and don't be naive please fire arms exist we can not get rid of them!!)

as to the people not believing that you can actually make a firearm look for homemade firearms under google you'll be quite surprised

Answer 1

I think there should be no ban at all on guns. Only responsible ownership. No one under the age of 18 should be allowed to own a gun. If you wish to purchase one then there should be a free class for gun safety given to the purchaser of the gun along with a gun lock. Otherwise the only people owning guns will be the police officers and the criminals and neither one makes me feel to safe in my own home.

Answer 2

I'm not a weapon nut either. I do however own a number of firearms. Here'smy thoughts:

1) Absolute ban - This doesn't work unfortunately. At least not in the United States. I can purchase a handgun almost instantly from a variety of illegal suppliers. A ban won't work because there's already too many weapons in the market.

2) Total Freedom - This would produce a Mad Max type culture. And we're already pretty darn close to that. When bars and schools require metal detector you we've just about hit rock bottom.

3) Logically Restricted System - The best idea in my mind. The way our Gov currently punished people for possession of illegal/unregistered firearms is ridiculous. If the severity of such a charge was on par with say a rape charge you'd start have fewer people carrying guns.

Peace out.

Answer 3

Not sure what country you live in, but I think the UK has a fairly good balance on it.

You need to prove purpose for owning a firearm (pest-control, competitive use, clay pigeons etc) and have a thorough background check and assessment before being granted a licence.

We had a few atrocities over the past 10 years or so (Hungerford and Dunblane) and consequently the laws have tightened each time. You hear some views such as 'if someone went wacko with a cricket-bat, would cricket be banned?' which have some kind of argument in them, but to be honest, I think the majority of people understand that firearms hold more potential for horrific use.

My view is therefore to have what you call a logically restricted system (which I believe is what we have here), and the only further tightening that could be introduced (without an outright ban) would be to restrict all firearms to being kept at police-stations or shooting-clubs.

Answer 4

I think the best way is a logically restricted system. If you have led a good life and haven't committed any crimes, such as Murder, Rape, and Armed Robbery. Then it should be your choice to own or carry a gun. The police are not able to be everywhere at one time, so it is each and every persons OWN RESPONSIBILITY to make sure they are not a victim of a crime. A total ban is impossible, that would be like trying to get rid of all guns. It's just not logical. And total freedom is just to relaxed. There has to be at least some control on who can and can't own firearms. I do pack a S&W 9mm, because i am responsible enough to make sure that i don't become some thieves next victim. It's everyones job to put a stop to crime not just law enforcements. Most victims of crime believe that they will never be a victim, or CAN'T be a victim. I know i could be a victim but at least i have the means to protect myself and my family

Answer 5

Law abiding citizens should have the right to have firearms. I'm sure there's going to be an influx of anti gun people talking about how criminals have guns and all. All I'll say to that is "LAW ABIDING CITIZENS"

This isn't about illegal guns. In the Peoples Republic of New Jersey, I had to go through so many "bullsh*t" legal paperwork to get handguns. I can see why. Just to weed out the people who don't "qualify" for such guns. All USA legal gun owners get a background check done on them. Some states are less time consuming but all states do background checks.

Having said that, not everyone who legally applies for a gun permit is accepted. But most of the us population can get the following:

Knives - I'm not talking about hunting knives but your garden variety kitchen knife id pretty high on the list of muderous weapons

Cars/trucks - At legal ages of course, and these have cause more deaths than firearms in the US

Then there are the doctors. More malpractice suits were filed in death related medical events than accidental gun fatalities in the past 10 years

Answer 6

FIrearm enables are no longer something extra then a money COW for the government! no longer something extra! They regarded around and desperate we ought to can charge the little human beings extra of what we don't have. I for one have faith we as us of a electorate ought to be waiting to purchase, carry, very own, any gun. If it wasn't for weapons all of us could be conversing british or yet another foreign places language. we does not of gained our Independence! if no longer for the firearm. the way I see it, individually weapons do no longer kill human beings, the bullets that are utilized in that gun are what kill human beings. i've got by no ability viewed a record the place the "Gun" killed somebody, it became that "Bullet" that did the wear! So in the event that they desire to administration something, enable them to flow after bullet makers? OMG! purely an fact via an observer, who's a Patriot at coronary heart. meaning, we don't desire the government in our conventional lives.

Answer 7

I'm NRA for life, and a big Dr. John Lott fan. I live in California, THEE hot bed of anti gun radicalism. My husband and I enjoy our guns and gun rights very much. I won't lecture. I'll just say this; look at what happened to all the countries(in history and the present) that banned guns to the public. It's really bad news. Guns make for a safer community.

Answer 8

In an ideal world there would be no firearms so nobody would get shot.But it seems we are stuck with them.My view is the public should be banned from owning them enforcing this would be a problem.Problem can be solved if everyone understands that owning a firearm can result in misuse,maybe I am naive but its the only way to stop a lot of trouble.

Answer 9

I personally am a strong supporter of the right to keep and bear arms. As we've seen in England the seizures and outlawing of firearms have only made crime rates go up. As we saw in pre-war Germany, the seizures of civilian firearms took away the German people's ability to resist the takeover of their nation by extremists. Many people preach about taking guns away because guns are evil and only kill people. The fact of the matter is that you can not take away all guns, you can only take them away from people who obey the law. Criminals break the law, they murder, rape, steal, etc. It is dangerously naive to assume that they will obey gun laws. The only people effected by gun laws are law-abiding citizens, and once their right to defend themselves is taken away, you only embolden and incite criminals.
In my opinion, if someone wants a gun it should be similar to getting a license for a car. A few hours of class time, some range time, and you can go out and buy as many guns you want to, without the government poking its nose into your business about it.

Answer 10

MY god people are so short sighted.

Not just anyone can get a gun licence and in fact it would probably help control illegal guns like you suggest yourself.

Shooting is a part of many peoples life's, if you know your drills and are confident with a weapon it poses no threat to anyone!

Just because it is part of culture at the moment thanks to certain incidents that people think if you own a gun you are a mass murderer - Well, if someone is really that deranged he could easily buy a gun illegally and continue to shoot people completely untraced.

Gun education is what is needed, a gun is a simple tool, it is who is behind that tool that you need to be careful of, and at the moment it would appear the only people with guns are the criminals.