Let's hear your opinion.
2006-09-10 06:43:46 · 23 answers · asked by p_boxter03 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
NO. Banning guns will only prevent them from getting into the hands of private citizens. Criminals and terrorists will still get a hold of them.
The ability to defend oneself against criminal attack is a God given right.
"No free man shall be denied the use of arms in his own land."--Thomas Jefferson
"Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch; liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting that vote." --Benjamin Franklin
2006-09-10 06:49:43 · answer #1 · answered by Dewhitewolf 3 · 8⤊ 0⤋
if you make guns illegal...Only criminals will have guns.
But our beloved government is slowly trying to do exactly that. They have been on a campaign to take away our guns for decades now. The constitution guaranteed us the right to keep and bare arms, but they have changed that to mean exactly the opposite of what our founding fathers had intended. They added the 2nd amendment to assure us that we would be as well armed as our government. for the purpose that if our government didn't' do what we wanted then we could take over AGAIN and force them to. Well we can't do that if the government is better armed than we are...or we are not armed at all. And that is exactly what the government is doing. They have taught us that guns are bad. And somehow evil. That guns kill people. Well.... Guns don't do anything that they are not told to do. They are simply a tool... Like a knife, a bat, an ax, a hammer, or a car. More people are killed by cars every year than have been killed by guns all together. Yet we are taught guns are bad. In fact more people are killed each year by DOCTORS than by guns. And I'm not talking just a couple more. I'm talking thousands more.
Guns are our only hope in staying a free country. If you don't believe that then just ask anyone that was in Poland, or Europe in the early 30s. In 1935 Hitler made it illegal to possess a gun. He disarmed the Europe in a campaign to take over. Once he knew his populace was unarmed then he knew he could take over. Which is exactly what he did. Ever wonder why he never attacked Switzerland? Switzerland was laden with riches, but he left them alone. Why....Cause by law ever Swiss citizen is required to maintain a fully automatic weapon and know how to use it. Hitler would have lost that campaign hands down. He knew that. That is why he was not able to take over Switzerland. He did have a successful campaign to disarm the rest of Europe though. He convinced them that guns were bad, and told them that they would be safer if no guns were allowed. He was successful in fooling them that only criminals had guns. Too bad we did not learn from our past.
Here is my final question for you. Why is it that the states with the most gun laws are the states with the most crime?... The states with the fewest gun laws are the states with the lowest crime. That is a fact. CA has the most gun laws and the highest crime.... VT has the fewest laws and the lowest crime.... Doesn't anyone see the correlation?
But our government is successfully disarming it's populace slowly but surely. Soon it will be illeagle to own any guns, and soon after that we will all be overrun. They have already started. They have made it illeagle for certain people to possess guns, and certain guns are illeagle. And they will continue to add to that list. until none of us has any.
When a government fears it's people you have freedom....
When the people fear the government you have tyranny (slavery).
2006-09-10 06:47:28 · answer #2 · answered by USMCstingray 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
No, I think a person should be able to own guns for hunting and self protection at home. What I'm against are assault weapons and putting weapons back in the hands of convicted felons. Most people are responsible gun owners. And not all LIBERALS are against guns contrary to other statements made here.
2006-09-10 07:17:22 · answer #3 · answered by carpediem 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. Guns don't kill people, people kill people. They are needed for self defense and militant purposes. Even if they were declared illegal, it could never be enforced. Note when alcohol was briefly illegal in the USA some years ago, people just made speakeasy's and kept drinking.
2006-09-10 06:51:41 · answer #4 · answered by yankee_blondie 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The first problem you have is enforcement. Will criminals be first in line to give up their firearms? I seriously doubt it. Our problem is not the guns, it is the violent people who get (usually illegally) them. Legal firearms in the hands of law abiding citizens allow us to defend ourselves from violent people, who often run in gangs and are able to do whatever they please except the fact that we do have our firearms. I have a concealed weapon permit and own 40 handguns ---I have never used them in any illegal activity. Guns are NOT the issue --violent people are.
2006-09-10 06:51:22 · answer #5 · answered by Dino4747 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No. Even if guns were illegal the criminals would still have them. It would be like taking candy from a baby for them.
2006-09-10 06:52:13 · answer #6 · answered by Erica L 1 · 5⤊ 0⤋
The government does not want the people to have weapons. If we are unarmed, we are conquerable. Can you imagine that, if the government goes too far and the people would revolt. We, the People would have to resort to terrorism a second time (the American Revolution was the first)
2006-09-10 06:51:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
No!!!.. I live in Jersey and we have very strict gun laws here. Now if you go to P.A that's next to Jersey, it's very easy to get a permit there. There crime rate is a tenth of Jersey. I hope this helps you figure it out.
2006-09-10 08:25:08 · answer #8 · answered by bondsman022 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no, it is every person right to own arms as each desires. It is a way that some individuals survive in procuring food for their families and is a sporting event. Not only can they be used for protection, since society/judges is becoming soo complacent in protecting violent offenders, it only makes since that citizens protect themselves.
2006-09-10 07:06:36 · answer #9 · answered by kevin T 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
why? its only the opinion of those liberals, guns can protect people, look at uk, the government forced the brits to surrender their guns but the crime rate goes up sharply, because they were stripped the right of self defense
2016-02-14 21:17:38 · answer #10 · answered by anthony 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋