Why do people think that guns cause crime?

Question

A gun is a tool. It doesn't wisper things in your ear. It doesn't walk down the street shooting people. If you don't touch it, it will stay where it is until it breaks down into dust. Still people want to make more laws to ban guns. Then they say that the new law will stop gun crime. How many law abiding criminals have you ever met? Only the law abiding citizen obeys the law and they are the victoms, not the criminal.

Serenity: I own several AK 47's and other high power rifes. These look more deadly in movies, but they are the last ones used in crimes. As for kids getting killed, it's usually the kids that are not taught about what a gun can do and how they sound when they are fired. If you let a kid here a gun be fired near them they will keep away from them, just because of the noise.

Abby: the bill of rights does give the people the right to bare arms to defend themselves against criminals, invasion and a corrupt government. Remember that the men that wrote the bill had just rebeled against their government. The government is suppose to fear the people, this is what is to keep the government from inslaving the people.

Answer 1

There does seem to be a strange aversion by many people toward guns-usually because they kill. However, we hand baseball bats to children, and steak knives are available at any Walmart. Those are just as lethal. Most states with "liberal" gun laws (NH, VT, AK) have lower gun crime rates because law-abiding people can defend themselves and the criminals know it. The states with the highest levels of gun crime have restrictions making it almost impossible for someone to get a permit (NY, DC, MA, CA). Coincidence? Hardly. People who are afraid of guns naively think if there no guns there would be no gun crime, forgetting it won't stop the bad guys from getting them. The other piece of the "gun doublethink" is somehow rifles are OK, but handguns are not. What is the difference except ease of concealment? They'll both kill you just as dead.

Answer 2

Right guns don't cause the crime but they cause crimes to be more deadly. People should have the right to own guns but the problem is when angry kids or adults get a hold of them and kill people. I see a problem when people own guns that can not be used for hunting or even self protection they are high powered semi automatic or automatic big guns that if the wrong people get a hold of them can cause big damage we have gun laws that need to be enforced. Also America has more gun crimes than many other country's and 23 out of every 1000 Americans are in jail or prison we are a very angry country.

Answer 3

I think your line of reasoning is incorrect. Yes, guns are a tool. So is the Internet. Since the arrival of the Internet, has the profusion of porn increased in our society? Hell, yes. The point is that the general availability of guns causes guns to get into the hands of people who otherwise would not have access to guns. Nobody is suggested that banning guns would remove them from the possession of ALL criminals, but certainly, it would decrease the number of criminals with guns.

Think of it this way, all those illegal guns, where have they come from? A lot of them are probably stolen. Now, stealing an armoury or an arms manufacturer is probably not very easy, but stealing it from an individual's home is probably quite easy. When 200 million people own guns and even if only 1% of those are stolen, that means there's 2 million illegal guns in the society that can be used to commit crimilality.

It's all about increasing the level of difficulty for criminals to get their hands on weapons.

Answer 4

I don't believe that , PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE , and if the "tool" was taken away , if said person or persons want to kill , they'd find another,and not only that when you purchase a gun you have to pass background tests, and there is a waiting period,taking it away will not solve 1 thing. What WOULD happen is this, all the criminals would have the guns. Look around your houses, knives , screwdrivers,forks, scissors , come onnnnn now folks , let's just keep it real. There are very rational, intelligent law abiding citizens out there .

Answer 5

Crimes committed involving guns are inherently more dangerous than those without gun use. That's why the sentence for the crime of assault can be increased if there was a gun involved, and can increase even more if a gun was fired. Theoretically, these gun laws are in place to limit the amount of guns available, especially to those who have no business being in possession of one. There are many good arguments on both sides of these laws. We just need to focus on that fact that crime may be reduced, but never completely eradicated.

Answer 6

laws are for the people that have kids that play with guns .Although when I was a kid my dad had several loaded guns in a closet and I would not even want to open the closet .My mom would tell me to get something out of there and know not to even touch the guns ,shed say theyll blow your head off.But there are so many video games and gangs and things kids shoulndt be getting into ,but they do and then they go get it from the parents or whoever.Even buying a gun with your name on it and then reselling on the streets would be wrong ,it could be used for a crime and it would be better to know whos gun it was .Guns kill and all schools should have a class once a year on them.And have metal detectors .Actually all criminals should be hung like the old days for the whole town to see,then we could carry a gun once again in are cars and on our sides.

Answer 7

You may recall the MGM series of clips from MGM movie musicals some years ago called "That's Entertainment," with George Murphy as narrator. In one of those movies, they showed probably ten back-to-back clips from MGM musicals starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney in which a big group of kids was faced with a large humanitarian problem, such as how to help Farmer Brown save his farm from foreclosure by the bank (most of these particular movies were made near the end of the Depression); and the answer would occur to someone in a flash of insight, and he or she would shout out enthusiastically, "I know -- let's put on a show!" And thus was born "Babes on Broadway" or one of the other films like it.

Well, I believe the same thing happens in Congress and in state legislatures all over the United States every year, year after year. The big problem (say gun crime) is described, people go off by themselves or in small groups to noodle it together, and then the moment of epiphany comes -- only instead of, "let's put on a show!" it's more like, "Let's pass a law!" There are a lot of naive people in this country who fervently believe that all it takes to solve our thorniest problems is passing a law. Then they move on to something else after congratulating themselves on having "done something" about guns or whatever the problem was perceived to be.

There was a very funny bumper sticker ostensibly from ancient Rome that was quoted in a book called "Latin for all occasions." I can't recall the words in Latin, but the English translation was, "If catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults."

Answer 8

You will be surprised at the number of "insanity" pleas that involves the gun told me to do it. A gun is just a tool, it is the hand of the criminal that kills (or injure, or whatever). However, take away the tool and it makes things a whole lot harder. Besides, assuming you are from the US, your constitution does NOT endorse guns for all, but rather citizens can arm themselves in an event of a foreign invasion, but sadly that part was not written into your Bill of Rights.

Answer 9

you right it the criminal that uses the gun i think it should be a criminal that uses a gun to do a crime should be band from public i know there's jails for this but if someone used a gun to to a crime they need to be band for good i for one do not want to give up my gun i got for having a gun put to my head on time an the cops said good luck i went an got one for the next time it happen to me i will use it. for self defense hats off to answer man at that age an never in point one at any one guess that means you did not do any war time it not fun to have to shoot at a non game but when your there you learn they are

Answer 10

I have had guns since I was 9 years old, I still got a few and I am 60. My guns have never been involved in a crime, never. I haven't ever had to point a gun at another human yet, but I would to defend myself, but only if necessary.