If you had to chose to vote on if we had gun control between the following, how would you vote?, One stating that any person at any time can regardless of there mental state, criminal record or history can go in and buy any kind of hand gun, rifle or assault gun at the spur of the moment. OR Having a background check mandatory to make sure he is not wanted by the law or has a violent criminal record or has a history of mental illness.
Is gun control so bad then, or is the "out of my dead cold hands”, we have the right to all bear arms at all cost theory. Would gun control at least help (if) only help though keep guns out of the wrong hands, having the choice of the 2, which it is pretty much like in real life, how would you choose? Most Gun control laws are not take all guns away laws
PS: I am a proud gun owner, not a hunter but target shooter.
2006-11-21 00:30:55 · 7 answers · asked by Jon J 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Birdsnake, wrong again, gees, have you read the biggest gun control law in recent history (the Brady bill) was a conservative sponsored. (And I agree with it)
Netnazi: I have not shot the Quigley YET, but this is not meant to me a racial pointed question, and Columbine was all white guys dude, BUT while yes people who don’t have a record YET can go and buy one and allot of times it can go bad, but what if there was NO CHECK what’s so ever wouldn’t that just increase the chance of going into the wrong hands by 10 fold?
With my bushmaster 223 I can group 7 or 8 at 2 inches at 100 yards, still learning, but I can take those shots at 2 second intervals
2006-11-21 01:10:42 · update #1
But Mitchel, are you saying NO kind of check, sell you ANYONE ANYTIME, No questions asked, or should we do at least a background check?
2006-11-21 01:12:41 · update #2
The second option is exactly what we have now. Felons and people who have or have had any mental illness cannot own or buy guns. And background checks are currently mandatory for any firearm purchase.
2006-11-24 16:52:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you even know anything about gun laws. We already have a mandatory background check under federal law. But if you had researched yourself, you can look back and see that when the average guy on the street was able to just walk in and buy a machine gun or "assault rifle" the instances of random shooting like Columbine and such did not exist. Even the NAACP has admited if just blacks could not get ahold of guns, gun violence would drop by over 50%. Most real gun violence is inner city ghetto drug thugs. I for one own several legal full auto weps, I target shoot (if you haven't shot the Quigley you haven't shot yet), I hunt and would rather go down fighting than put up with one more stupid law that drowns me in paperwork while the criminals just steal their guns or buy them from smugglers.
2006-11-21 00:36:40 · answer #2 · answered by netnazivictim 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
While I do believe in some sort of gun control. I also believe in the US constitution. If we want any gun control we must first amend the constitution. The problem with that is I don't think we could get any amendment to gun control passed.
Remember that the right to bear arms was not intended for hunters or even for self defense. It was put in the Constitution to allow the general population to rise against a repressive government if ever needed. ON that basis we should be allowed to have any weapon that the military has.
I personally don't have any problem with registration and limiting some of the more outrageous weapons (Machine guns, rockets, grenades, etc...) but i do think there is a legality issue.
2006-11-21 08:51:54 · answer #3 · answered by Rorshach4u 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I support an instant background check on every gun sale, to make sure you are not a criminal nor have a mental problem. Once passed, the gun should be sold with no further restrictions.
2006-11-21 12:41:30 · answer #4 · answered by Uncle Pennybags 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree. With that said, I think it makes sense to state that a background check should be done for gun owners. The fingerprinting idea they currently have is a good start.
2006-11-21 00:34:35 · answer #5 · answered by Huey Freeman 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In every country that banned guns, the bad guys still had guns.
Criminals and rapists do not turn in their guns.
Background checks really do nothing. People who can't pass just steal or buy guns.
Any type of gun control is phony baloney.
Democrats know that. They just talk to fool the un-informed.
2006-11-21 00:37:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hitler did believe in gun control
Most of Russia's greatest dictators believed in gun control
Cuba has gun control
People who want to kill will kill
Remember 9/11 no guns there
2006-11-21 00:40:12 · answer #7 · answered by Mitchell b 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋