No, don't tell your guns are for defense. For every one time a gun in an American home is used in a self-defense or legally justifiable shooting, there are 4 unintentional shootings, 7 criminal assaults or homicides, and 11 attempted or completed suicides. Get real guys. Sue the NRA for the deaths, and ban guns like the rest of the civilised world. Then your kids can go to school in relative safety.
2006-10-02 19:51:55 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
my source of these stats are from a tutorial to med students at U. Utah. http://medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/TUTORIAL/GUNS/GUNSTAT.html
Another horrifying stat is that approx 30,000 people die from bullets each year in the US.
2006-10-02 21:55:03 · update #1
I agree with you. I do not get it.
2006-10-02 19:54:09 · answer #1 · answered by Rhonda 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I understand your sentiment and your frustration, but banning guns would not work. Think about it. The only people who would willingly hand over their guns would be those who are honest. I don't think anyone who would walk into a school and start shooting would fall into the category of willing participant, do you? Something needs to happen, but I don't know what will fix everything that is wrong today.
2006-10-03 03:00:27 · answer #2 · answered by everdazed2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those stats don't disprove an intended purpose, such as personal protection from various forms of danger. The defense argument stands, your logic doesn't. Disprove the capacity of the gun to effect defense, then you'll win.
We are civilised, we put principle over appeasing emotion and reacting to every consequential tragedy, or other tragedy. Right of self defense.
2006-10-03 02:55:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Hold on there Mr. "I want to rewrite the Constitution." People would get a hold of guns no matter if they were legal or not. Drugs are illegal in this country, yet people get them all the time. Banning guns is not the answer. The answer is the way we teach our children the value of life. Too many of America's entertainment outlets show that violence is power and power is glorious. It is up to the people to take responsibility for bringing up their children and stop letting television and radio do it for them.
2006-10-03 02:59:46 · answer #4 · answered by DLUVDAIMPERIAL 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Its a right guaranteed by the Constitution.
What are your sources for your "statistics"?
More kids are killed by cars or booze, but that doesn't appeal to your left wing cause.
Get real , sue GMC for deaths and Jack Daniels brewery. The NRA doesn't pass law, manufacure guns or turn kids into "Ganstas" Better to sue Capitol Records, or Snoop Dog.
2006-10-03 02:57:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
its sad to read and hear news of killing and brutality. like what had happened in amish school. innocent kids were shots, killed. america and other countries should amend their constitution to ban a gun. dont reason out that you buy a gun for protection, its senseless and unappropriate. Good government is the best answer. Politicians should and must do their respective duties to protect their indegents, communities by creating a powerful laws regarding carrying guns, issuing licence for guns and enforce the law regardless of whatever nature it should be use upon.
2006-10-03 03:07:06 · answer #6 · answered by Salvacionf 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
This is the latest fad in aborrant behavior. Removing the guns won't stop the mentally broken from doing mayhem to others or themselves.
2006-10-03 03:02:26 · answer #7 · answered by GJ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are a lot of ppl around here who have mental issues thus justifying a cause for their actions in shooting up a school.
Guns cannot be banned (although they should) because people believe they are safe with one handy (when they are clearly NOT), and b/c our govt. is ran by a bunch of money-hungry crack-heads who'd do anything to stay high off of big businesses and corporations.
2006-10-03 03:08:48 · answer #8 · answered by dimplez23 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Hey, you don't understand. It is not so much problem in guns, but in American culture which is very aggressive and crippled.
As you see, only young Americans kill their friends in schools. I also heard for one German boy, but mostly Americans are so sick.
2006-10-03 03:11:34 · answer #9 · answered by nelli 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are a radical, thoughtless, inconsiderate person. Capitalize each of those words. 'Hey i've got an idea, let's treat symptoms rather than problems. And in the process, create a whole new problem'. The Framers of our constitution deliberately designed our government in such a way that public policy would not be determined by peoples whims. They did that to protect our Republic from people like you.
2006-10-03 02:53:37 · answer #10 · answered by lefty 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋
hell no I love my guns I use my guns to defend my self and i hunt with my M1 Garand and my Barrett 50.calBMG and they are real cool I love my automatic Sten MK2 sub machine gun its bad *** I carry my Colt 45 1911 concealed on me everyday and I feel very safe and I have a permit to carry it concealed I know I wouldn't want to live in any other country but the U.S.A
2006-10-03 06:37:03 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋