Hey liberals! How will disarming law abiding citizens stop gun violence? Can anyone answer this?

Answer 1

No guns = no gun violence.

I have no problem with this.

Answer 2

I will warn you this. You must have some degree of responsible control - ie people with registered mental illness should not have access to guns. But general disarming of the populace does NOT work.
In Australia, following the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in which Martin Bryant, a known registered sociopathic was able to walk into a world famous historic site (former British Penal colony on the Tasman Peninsular, Tasmania, Aust see:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur_Massacre for more details) the newly elected Liberal (conservative - sic) government of John Howard (still in power) decided to introduce a rash of ill-conceived and totalitarian gun control measures which had the effect of disaming the general populace to a large degree. It is now incredible restrictive as to who can own and utilise firearms, even competitive shooters have difficulty accessing the firearms.
You may say, well good - it must have done good reducing the number of guns in public hands in Australia?
Well no. In fact gun related crime has sky-rocketed in the last 10 years, increasing over 800%. Formerly a thief could reasonably expect to be confronted, with 1 in 4 household protected by weapons. Now, less than 1 in 80 (!) contain firearms.
Now unconcerned by the threat of confrontation, criminals go about armed, knowing they will have their way when committing crimes. The average Australian Police response time to a firearms offense is a very impressive 4 1/2 minutes. How long does it take to be shot and killed or injured?
Robbery, Buglary and Muggings have gone through the roof. And that is without mentioning the ethnically based drug wars in Sydney's South-Western suburbs such as Cabramatta, where shootings take place on an almost weekly scale. With such a small police force and such a large exposed coastline to protect, firearms, along with drugs are smuggled into Australia from South-East Asia regularly.
Fear not people. If the populace is unarmed, then no one will have guns, right?

Answer 3

I see some of the liberals just don't get it.It is as illegal as hell to possess narcotics,has been for darned near 100 years.But i will bet any gun control freak on here, my paycheck, that i can walk out my door,go around a few corners and come back within a half hour with any drug you want.I'll even pick you up an assault rifle with the serial numbers filed off while I'm out.
Face it,violence has been going on since cavemen were beating each other with deer antlers.If every gun were to magically disappear tomorrow,people would invent other ways of killing each other.

Answer 4

According to the Constitution's 2nd Amendment " 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". ..meaning as americans we have the right to own a gun..

sure there should be strict laws and everything should be registered every year, but you cant take away our rights. Why should law enforcement be the only ones carring guns..even tho they are to serve and protect do you know how many crooked cops there are...there should be more sever punishments for crimes of violence. dont punish the innocent--GO AFTER THE GUILTY.

Answer 5

The only thing it would do would be to get the guns out of law abiding citizens hands, and make them even more of a threat in a criminals hands. Outlawing guns will be about as effective as outlawing drugs. The criminals will still get them somehow.

Answer 6

I am a liberal , and I say it won't.....It doesn't disarm the true problem, the people who would break the law anyway. I say everyone should have a gun and wear it everywhere they go in plain view. I bet there would be alot less problems, and those who needed shooting would get it. (mostly neocons I am sure)

Answer 7

Germany was a Democracy when Hitler came to power. One of the first laws he passed was a ban on all private ownership of guns This way when they Nazi's took full control and turned the country into a totalitarian state no one would be able to resist .

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Actually Polisc and Roland. Criminals don't need guns to be legalized if they want to acquire them they can get there hands on them anyway. That's why they're called criminals!

Do you honestly expect that if we rid of guns that criminals won't be able to smuggle them in ? that's a naive way of thinking. And what about the victims, Don't they have the right to protect them selves. Will you strip them of their second amendment right and not allow them to guard themselves against intruders.

And what if the goverment decides to turn to despotism? How will we stop a goverment that has ALL the weapons while we have non.

Answer 8

The UK (united kingdom) disarmed it's law abiding citizens decades ago and now their "gun violence" is at least 75% less than US gun violence.

And if you outlaw guns the gun companies go out of business so their ain't as many guns for criminals to try and get. (most guns US criminals use are American made.)

Kids wouldn't be able to get their parents guns and shoot themselves or their siblings.

There wouldn't be any more Columbine Massacres.

Most of those law abiding citizens couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with their hand guns anyway so those hand guns aren't really helping them much anyway.

Answer 9

Can you specify how liberals are trying to disarm citizens? I think that's a myth. Many liberals hunt and all that. I think some politicians (like James Brady, who was shot with Reagon) only seek to make background checks and waiting periods mandatory. Also, maybe limit automatic weapons that are only used for warfare, never killing.

Again, I'm not studied on this issue, so enlighten me.

Answer 10

It is always funny how liberals want rights for everyone except for those of moral or conservitive values.

We should be glad that owning guns is a right under the constitution

Answer 11

Maybe disarming the average Joe may be good when he gets drunk and beats on his family or uses the nearest weapon to do so. Seems to me that there are lots of situations that fit into this category.
Its also handy for the cops to know if there are guns in the house when they are called to a domestic violence case.