Who should have/not have guns?

Question

If we don't ban guns, anyone will be able to have them, but not everyone will.

If we do ban guns, then almost no one will be able to have them, but BY DEFINITION, there will be no law-abiding citizen with a gun.

THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE QUESTION:
Also, if we ban them, should we enforce the ban with guns, or without guns?
Should the government be the exclusive legal wielders of lethal force?
I dare anyone to show me how the choice is anything but this:
Gun control means: Mob, gangs, hired thugs, police, military have guns.
No gun control means mob, gangs, hired thugs, police, military, and YOU!

Kwahaddi:

Does the Constitution give you that right, or did you have it before anyone ever thought of Constitutions?

Blabby:
I won't lump you in with mobs, gangs, hired thugs, police, or military,
WHEN GUNS ARE BANNED!
Then you will not be lumped in with them.

Answer 1

Gun crimes are committed by criminals. Criminals don't obey the law. So it would be fair and reasonable to assume that if gun ownership is restricted by law, criminals will most likely ignore the prohibition. Sort of like how heroine addicts usually ignore the laws against illegal drugs.
Also the constitution doesn't give us the right to bear arms to hunt with. or protect our homes with. We are given the rights to bear arms to protect our republic from an oppressive government. So if they can restrict what firearms we can possess, they have already taken hitlers first step in subduing the populace.

My two cents.

Answer 2

"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."

As a licensed concealed weapons holder, this subject is very important to me. The Clinton administration had a ban on assault weapons that was lifted a few years back. During that ban, it was still possible for criminals to get these weapons. Case in point...Criminals do NOT obey the law, and if there was a law against owning guns do you think they would obey it? Absolutely not. That would only restrict law abiding citizens from lawfully protecting themselves from such people. Our founding fathers wrote the 2nd amendment for a reason. We were at war with the british government, and needed a well regulated militia in case it ever happened again. So it gave people a constitutional right to keep and bear arms...even if our government turns on us. That sounds crazy I know, but its happened before, and the amendment was made so it won't happen again. We absolutely should have guns, but this means the people who shouldn't have guns(mobsters, felons, kids, crazy people etc.) should be punished to the full extent. So that is my two cents and here is a web link that should also help...also...the guy below me is retarted and doesn't know how to read the 2nd amendment properly.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8490506794163083426&q=penn+and+teller+gun+control

Answer 3

Constitution does not give you the right to own a weapon. Only under a well regulated militia. Meaning the state militia, or the Cost guard. Like the Citizen army.

As for guns, I believe that every citizen should be required to carry a gun. Nothing short of Chao yun fat HIMSELF would be able to commit a crime and get out of a situtation where every bystander has a rifle.

An armed society is a polite society.

Answer 4

With the (real or imagined ) threat of home front terrorism... gun control in the United States isn't a particularly popular subject right now. The Assault Weapons ban has been allowed to expire with little or no fanfare, and Kansas and Nebraska finally have concealed carry laws on their books, leaving only Illinois and Wisconsin as lone holdouts.

Gun bans wont and never have worked

and as a gun owner please DONT lump me in with the mob, gangs and hired thugs...

Answer 5

Not that this is an answer but I am a gun owner. 2 of them in fact. I would be more then happy to give them up if I knew that I could live without fear of home invasion. or protection on the street. I think guns laws are a band-aid on the real problems our country is facing. People are killing each other every day. Get to the root problem of that and fix it. Gun's will not be an issue.

Answer 6

It's a question of balance. Gun control will have little efffect on criminal possession of firearms. Only those who will obey the law will be harmed. However there are many otherwise law abiding citizens that will refuse to have our right to keep and bear arms infringed upon. I guess then we would be criminals too....so be it. The best solution I can see is stiffer penalties for violent crime especially when involving firearms....up to and including a life sentence whether anyone was shot or not.

Answer 7

Statistics show that states with less restrictive gun ownership (and concealed carry permit!) regulation have less crime.
I'm all for gun rights.The only people who should be stripped of their right to own a gun are violent felons,practicing drug addicts and alcoholics,and other people who could reasonably be seen as a threat to society.
No amount of regulation is going to keep guns out of the hands of criminals.Criminals that the rest of us have a right to,and should have the ability to, defend ourselves against! Look at our war on drugs! Has it worked?No....! We need to quit running this country like a preschool,where the "principal" (our government)decides that,because of a few bad apples (criminals) ,the rest of the "class" (we the people!) loses it's priveleges (more like "rights"!).
Laws only affect those that chose to obey them.Therefor....if you outlaw guns only outlaws will have guns.That's not how this country was meant to be.
Any government that would take away the right of the common man to defend himself is something to be feared and changed!

Answer 8

If we were to go the route of no guns (even police officers):

England's police does just fine without guns. However, such a transition would take time. Intially, gangs would run rampant, killings would rise some.

Consider Russia and it's transition from communism to democracy. People were in much better condition before the wall was broken. But we look at the U.S. and think, we're so much better off than they are, if they could just see things our way - and I'm not saying that's such a bad point of view. But you have to realise, it takes time. The U.S. wasn't born overnight - geez, even the world wasn't created overnight - it took many years, and many sleepless nights to put together something that works. But I'd wager everyone one of those men knew that what they were doing held weight, and was the begining of something great and would have spent many nights more to make it work because it was worth it.

We're talking about guns here - lol. I believe it is worth it to remove guns from the people. But it can't be done overnight. If simply remove everything all at once, I don't think we'll get something like chaos.

Answer 9

Good question. Any gun control law only applies to law-abiding citizens. Criminals (being criminals) don't give a rats patootie about laws.

"To disarm the people [is] the best and most effectual way to enslave them …" George Mason, 3 Elliot, Debates at 380 (June 14, 1788).

Answer 10

According the the Constitution, Americans still have the right to keep and bear arms.