Seriously, why will America not ban guns?

Question

You will not be any safer when owning one. If someones going to kill you with a gun will you have time to run to your gun room, or do you keep it in your handbag?

Constitutional right to own a 'death machine.' And we wonder why the world has gone mad.

You banned cocaine and that still flows like water.

I would seriously doubt that every gun crime is committed with an illegal weapon.

coragryph, thanks for that. I'm British by the way and we over here just cant understand it. We've had a strict firearms ban for a number of years now and I think this has helped. True it doesn't stop gang killings but the culture of gun ownership is seen to be pretty negative. Society here hates guns. Its a good direction to go in I think.

"private citizens to arm and protect themselves"

Again, I really don't think that carrying a gun will protect you any more than not carrying one.

Would you say you have more of a right to own a gun than something we take for granted, like having 2 legs?

The passion some of you feel astonishes me, its only a gun!

Your right Mark D, American culture is far to violent for its own good. Wars, nukes, and guns everywhere, and there must always be someone to use them against to justify having them the odd criminal or dictator perhaps?

In the year 2004/05.

England & Wales (severe restrictions on owning guns) - 73 firearms homicides.

USA (right to bear arms) - about 15 000 firearms homicides.

The figures speak for themselves.

Answer 1

Surely less guns means less availability of firearms to nutters. Ban Guns in the US, have an amnesty to hand them all in.

We are not living in the Wild West anymore.

Im English by the way.

Answer 2

America cannot nationally ban guns (at the federal level) because of the protections of the 2nd Amendment.

But since the 2nd Amendment only limits federal regulations, each of the individual states can change its own laws, if it chooses.

The bottom line is that most people in the country don't think that making guns illegal will help, or they oppose the concept on principle. So, given what most people want, since the Constitution doesn't mandate gun regulation, people get to own guns.

If you want a different result, get the laws in your state changed.

Answer 3

Seriously it is a right protected by the Second Amendment, it is a god given right to own a firearm and it does make you safer but that is not the entire reason that you have the right to own a firearm. The primary reason it was put in place was to give a balance of power to the citizenry to the government. When governments are about to make a move towards tyranny, the first move is to conficate guns from citizens. The people of Zimbewe recently had their guns confiscated using the same terminolgy the left uses when trying to ban guns in the USA. After the confiscation thousands of homes were destroyed and thousands killed.

The violent crime rate in non gun owning countries is much higher than in the USA. The opposite has been reported for years and has been taken as fact but it is an absolute lie. The only country in Europe with a lower crime rate is Spain.

As far as using my gun to protect myself I hardly have to run home to get it, I have a Glock 17C strapped on right now. Most states have concealed carry laws which allow private citizens to carry their guns most places. Curiously enough the crime rate seems to go down when these laws are introduced and the blood running oin the streests never materializes.

If you do not like guns I suggest that you do not buy one but it is very dangerous to try to take ours. The only thing that good that ever came from gun control is the republican majority. Feel free to graze the grass with the rest of the sheep.

Answer 4

The main problem I see with your question is it spawns another questions.

What problems would banning guns solve? None! In fact it would create more problems than it would solve. The places with the strictest gun control laws usually are the most dangerous places to live and tend to have higher crime rates (Los Angeles and New York City for example). Conversely those with the least restrictive laws are usually the safest and have the lowest crime rates. Also if you look at the murder rates of countries that ban guns vs. those that allow them there just isn't much statistical difference. For example, Japan a country that has never allowed private citizens to own weapons has a relatively high murder and suicide rate the difference is that they primarily use knives instead of guns.

The bottom line is that until basic human nature changes and there are no more sick and evil people to defend oneself against there will be a need for private citizens to arm and protect themselves.

Answer 5

I'm not so sure the so 2nd Amendment has anything to do with God given rights as previously stated, more a bunch of people trying to ensure the balance of power in a fledgling society. Not to sure that that is relevant today, if it was people of the USA should turn their guns on their Government to try and wrest some of the balance of power back from the shady business men funding and unduly influencing Government.

Also gun crime is probably higher in New York and LA due to the population density and the greater disparity of have and have nots that this creates.

Let just hope that when the floor creaks outside your bedroom and you whip out your gun, shoot first and ask questions later, it wasn't one of your kids going to the bathroom.

Answer 6

nicely, whether there at the instant are not any weapons there'll nonetheless be crime. i think of gun use could be limited to protection tension and regulation enforcement workers. I propose, human beings do not could carry around a gun for cover. If there are police there to contain the criminals and stuff, it won't be counted that lots. No weapons to uncomplicated electorate and a greater suitable police tension will do.

Answer 7

1) It is our Constitutional right to bear arms so that we may revolt against the government when it insists on taking away too many of our rights.

2) Whether or not you "ban" guns the criminals will ALWAYS have them... they are CRIMINALS for a reason.

3) Why should reasonable, law-abiding people have to give up their sense of safety and self-protection because of those who choose to break the laws?

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Yes, I have a gun on my person AND in the nightstand at all times. This is my right. That way, when some idiot decides my home is the right one to invade, I'll shoot him on sight and ask questions later.

Yes, I feel that I am safer for having guns on my person and in my home.

I realize that not all crimes take place with illegal guns however, most of the serious gang-related crime (drugs, drive-bys, execution-style murders, random streete crime) IS done by illegal weapons. What is it about criminals that makes you think they're going to register their weapons? The entire point is that they operate BENEATH (or above, depending on your POV) the law.

Would you rather fly on a plane full of Muslims with the pilot being armed or unarmed? Would you rather have your child in a school where the teachers might have guns and be trained in using them? Would you rather KNOW that no one in your neighborhood could prevent an attack or invasion because they don't have guns?

Personally, I want MORE law-abiding citizens to carry concealed weapons. If criminals are never sure which granny has a Smith & Wesson on her, they are less likely to attack ANY granny.

Answer 8

In the year 2004/05.

England & Wales (severe restrictions on owning guns) - 73 firearms homicides.

USA (right to bear arms) - about 15 000 firearms homicides

You can keep your constitutional rights.

Answer 9

Primariliy its against our constitutional rights. Secondly, it would never be voted out of the constitution. Before that would happen, how can you ban every other countries from having guns and bringing them into the country That wold be an impossible task to gather all theguns from people int he US.

Answer 10

the answer you be looking is that guns arent banned because it has to do with your socail contract with the goverment. it is to protect you when the goverment goes against your human rights or constitution. if you think about it what stops a goverment from going against its people. therefore the law is placed there so that if a govermant oneday decided to harm your human rights one could defend themselves.

Answer 11

It is the "American way of Life" it has already been voted and passed
in Congress, but you could send an e-mail to Charlton Heston who
is the President of the NRA (National Rifle Association) or, send
and e-mail to the webmaster of the NRA, it is easy to find either
in Yahoo or Google search.