Why Gun Control?

Question

Do you support Gun Control? Why? Wouldn't your time be better spent making cars safer or improving education?

Before you reply, please think... Guns are used 3,000,000+ times per year to defend life and property. Even by the most liberal estimates 30,000 people in this country die per year of gun inflicted wounds. MOST of those 30,000 are criminals being shot by police, someone defending themselves or are shot by another criminal.

3 times more kids die per year from high school sports, 4 times from pools, and 10 times from auto accidents. That is even using the liberal numbers where they lump in 15-22 year olds as kids and do not exclude kids shot in the commission of a crime or crimnals at all.

Answer 1

You bring up some good points. I do not support any form of gun control. In fact, I believe that most of the gun laws on the books currently are too restrictive and should be repealed. I think the emphasis should be placed on firearms education for all kids (like the NRA's Eddie Eagle program), striving toward better mental health facilities, and prisons and jails that are run with an emphasis on mental health instead of gang-like violence. I don't know if safer cars is a viable option. Cars don't kill people, drivers do.

Answer 2

I do not support any governments attempts at control because I believe all governments are corrupt by nature. The time would probably not be better spent making cars safer as there is an argument that the gains in making something safer are lost by people compensating and taking higher risks. Improving education would be the better idea but how DO you improve education? This is a whole discussion on it's own.

I do however believe that people have a right to defend themselves and if governments cannot properly control who has guns and who doesn't then they should be available to all. Now if only everybody decided that they did not need a gun.................

Answer 3

Cars are a weak analogy, because they have a non-harmful purpose: someone who wishes to do intentional damage to another person is unlikely to use a car. Compare the number of non-fatal car trips to the number of road fatalities and there's a better basis for the inherent danger of the machine, but firearms are designed to inflict damage, cars are (hopefully) designed to get you to your destination safely.

Gun control was legislated in my country in 1996, and last time statistics were published for it, had lowered firearm deaths by about half. That said, most of those deaths had been suicides, and there is some statistical evidence to suggest that they aren't opportunistic, so if a gun isn't available, another (perhaps less successful) method will be tried. Police still carry firearms here, and it's unlikely that any control policy would seek to change that.

I tend to think gun control is a good idea, as it reduces the opportunity for a person to hurt or kill many people, where they're set on a criminal course of action. It's impossible to measure how much the gun amnesty here has turned would-be armed robbers to knives, for example, but the risk of harm is considerably less even with a knife. This doesn't address the question of how to implement gun control though - the question is much harder for a person debating whether to surrender their firearm when they may be surrounded by others carrying them - but that wasn't what you asked.

Answer 4

Agreed. All the money and time spent on gun control could be SOOO much better put to use in gun safety training courses. Every time a child accidentally kills a little friend because he found a supposedly-well hidden gun, we cry for more gun control, instead of teaching children how to competently use and respect these powerful weapons, as well as gun safety for adults in how to properly store and use them.

It would immensely help to stop a lot of senseless deaths and injuries. And for the people who gasp and can't believe we'd teach kids to handle guns- I don't know why! What causes kids and teens to shoot one another is not the availability of guns, but something else in their minds- something that would seek any stand-in weapon, including knives and plain ol' fists. Remedy the source, not the means.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

I support gun control so that the New World Order government will have an easier time controlling us.
Life will be sooo much better when our every move is controlled by a benevolent loving world government... and of course, individual thought and opinion will be gone, so will the archaic idea of owning the tools of force.

Edit - aint' it sad that no-one can really tell you the definition of an "assault weapon"

Edit2 - So glad Linda agrees with me!

Answer 7

Gun control?
Banning guns ... heck No
Deciding who can have one...Yes, there are to many idiots out there!
Here in Phoenix you'll see guys walking around with 'em on their hips, Are they afraid of something? I own many guns..handguns, shotguns and rifles, I ain't skeert. Break into my home though, you'll be lookin' down the barrel of my S&W 44mag.

Answer 8

Gun Control is being able to hit your target.

Answer 9

i am opposed to any one using or owning a gun except the military or the police. there shouldn't be any need for any one to have a gun. that is how children die. the mentality today is shoot or be shot. if people today had any self respect they would get a job, settle down and love each other, not shoot each other.

Answer 10

gun control in not a good thing.no matter how many guns may be confiscated and destroyed, If some one wants one bad enough, they will find one.