Why is the American Gun Lobby so Powerful? Isn't it about time they tightened their Gun Laws?

Answer 1

Isn't it about time someone informed the American Gun Lobby that they are not the government and they don't run the country? Between the gun lobby and the NRA, the stance on guns is absolutely getting ridiculous. But it isn't as bad as Canada, which has made it all but impossible for any law-abiding citizen to have a gun but the bad guys, who don't bother to register their guns, have tons of them.

Answer 2

The "gun lobby" is just one group. Why is the abortion lobby so influential? Or the lawyers lobby, or Nambla, or the ACLU?

All laws need tightened, there are enough gun laws now, enforce some of them before creating more.

BTW, If you’d do a bit of research, you’d see that the 2nd Amendment’s secondary purpose has to do with a militia. The primary purpose was to ensure that individual people retain the RIGHT to own a gun to prevent a truly totalitarian government from becoming established and taking away all our rights. You might notice, the term “Right” is used more than 50 times in the Constitution, EVERY time to refer to an individual’s freedoms, not to some government’s responsibilities or duties.

Answer 3

It isn't the gun lobby which has the problem.
It is angry people who create the problem and they will find another weapon if they are that way inclined.
Law abiding citizens should be able to own a gun.
Take care!

Answer 4

The text of the Second Amendment to the US Constitution reads:
"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." Thus the 'right' to bear arms exists only as consitent with the maintenance of a well-regulated militia, which is to include said gun-owner. Quite literally, no militia, no Constitutional-based right to bear arms.
The common law right to keep and bear arms is drawn from English and Protestant precedent (see e.g., English Declaration of Rights (1689) which affirmed freedom for Protestants to "have arms for their defence suitable to their conditions and as allowed by law.), and is not enabled Constitutional protection, but has risen to a powerful private right.

The gun lobby, which often utilizes paranoid imagery of an over-regulating government seeking to disarm its citizenry and render them unable to protect themselves from abuses of their constitutional rights, does some serve a purpose of balancing out fears of preventing licensed gun ownership and over-regulation. Through this, it draws a vast number from the likes of hunters, gun enthusiasts or individuals worried about self protection, with legitimate uses for guns, thus making it a force for politicians to reckon with in some parts of the US. However, its extremeness in positions is very curious; its inability or unwillingness to draw lines against assault weapons (which serve no protected private use like protection or hunting), makes many of its laudable platforms questionable. The lobby fosters a belief that any encroachment on their common law 'right' to bear arms, such as licensing and registration, depletes the right, which they actively confuse with the Constitutional form, which is possibly harmful to healthy debate.

Answer 5

Well when people like Charlton Heston will stand up and say,"We have the right to bear arms or as Bill Hicks said, "The right to arm bears!" well then you see that beyond the military and police their is no reason a sane person would want a gun

Answer 6

655,000/- people have died in Iraq due to the war. In business terms that one heck of one country alone for supplying guns to for all manufacturers who make up the gun lobby. More wars the more business! If they are powerful enough to wage unjust wars, they are powerful enough to ignore pleas for tighter gun laws. BANG!

Answer 7

basis for their power is the constituition and the 2nd ammendment.
and the answer to second part is- absolutely they should tighten gun laws.

personally think bill hicks was right.
the right to bear arms is exactly as ridiculous than the right to arm bears.

Answer 8

If it wasn't for them the Second Amendment, already seriously compromised, would be non-existent.

Answer 9

it's their country and their laws .i haven't got a view on it