why is it so easy to buy a gun in the U.S?

Question

if it hasn´t been prohibited it must be because most of the U.S citizens agree to that.
How is that possible?
how is it possible that things so really horrible like the killing in these schools happen and you dont do anything to stop it? Why do these school killings happen when you are sooooo protective of your children?

is not irrational fear of guns but of the people who may use it

so if to have an arm is a right why am i searched so thoroughly in a u.s airport to see if i have one?

to obscure i hope we never meet because no matter how many guns had you i will make you eat your s-h-i-t

Answer 1

because American believe it is our right to bare arms , however the constitution doesn't say that , it says a well regulated militia , the right to bare arms

Answer 2

guns are not all that easy to get (legally). but very easy to get on the street. however as far as school killings and such. that is not the fault of the gun. it is the fault of the person operating the gun.

and a person that has decided to kill someone will do it one way or another. if they do not have a gun they will use a knife. if they do not have a knife they will use a club. if they do not have a club,

well a sharpened wooden pencil is a great weapon.

when we change the culture in this country then the violence will stop. right now killing and being a criminal is cool. kids carry guns because their "heroes" make them cool. TV, movies and especially Rap music videos glorify a violent lifestyle. and with parents not being involved in their kids lives the cycle will remain unchanbed.

Answer 3

most of the citizens want freedom and with freedom comes the problems of freedom.if we were so protective of our children the bullies and bullying that make children fight back would be stopped and no children would go through unnecessary surgeries like circumcision and ear tube surgery.some of the children killers were even bullied by teachers.i knew a child that was my first friend that died on my ninth birthday in a car accident in America in a Chevrolet Chevette and her father worked for General Motors.Should cars be banned?

Answer 4

You really need to do look at some quality research on this topic. Start with the "Myths" in the first link. Move on to a retired police officer's assessment of your personal risk. Try answering with and without carrying firearms.

Firearm availability is not positively correlated with crime:

"No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before." - Inspector Colin Greenwood, Firearms Control, (Routledge and Keegan, London, 1972) p. 243

"It is the contention of this observer that few homicides due to shooting could be avoided merely if a firearm were not immediately present, and that the offender would select some other weapon to achieve the same destructive goal." - Marvin E. Wolfgang, Patterns in Criminal Homicide, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1958) p. 82 (Wolfgang personally believed in banning all firearms)

"It is commonly hypothesized that much criminal violence, especially homicide, occurs simply because the means of lethal violence (firearms) are readily at hand, and thus that much homicide would not occur were firearms generally less available. There is no persuasive evidence that supports this view." - James Wright and Peter Rossi, Armed and Considered Dangerous, (Aldine de Gruyter, NY, 1986) (DOJ study results)

"[W]hen used for protection, firearms can seriously inhibit aggression and can provide a psychological buffer against the fear of crime. Furthermore, the fact that national patterns show little violent crime where guns are most dense implies that guns do not elicit aggression in any meaningful way. Quite the contrary, these findings suggest that high saturations of guns in places, or something correlated with that condition, inhibit illegal aggression." - Toch, H. and Lizotte, A., "Research and policy: The case of gun control." In Suedfeld, P. and Tetlock, P. (eds.) Psychology and Social Policy. Washington, D.C.: Hemisphere, 1991

If availability were correlated with crime, why weren't things worse prior to 1968? Back then, you could buy firearms by mail without any age or background check.

Firearms are useful for self defense:

"The available information does not indicate that gun control will reduce violent crime against women. Much of the information actually points in the opposite direction ... gun control measures ... actually hurt women by restricting or removing the most effective method of self-defense available ...." - Larish, Inge Anna, "Why Annie Can't Get Her Gun: A Feminist Perspective on the Second Amendment," Univ. of Illinois Law Review, 1996, Issue 2 - third link below

Even gun control proponents acknowledge that:

"If you've got to resist, your chances of being hurt are less the more lethal your weapon. If that were my wife, would I want her to have a .38 Special in her hand? Yeah." - Dr. Arthur Kellerman, Health Magazine (March/April 1994) p 61

The risks of accidents are overrated:

"Gun accidents are generally committed by unusually reckless people with records of heavy drinking, repeated involvement in automobile crashes, many traffic citations, and prior arrests for assault. . . . Consequently, it is doubtful whether, for the average gun owner, the risk of a gun accident could counterbalance the benefits of keeping a gun in the home for protection--the risk of an accident is quite low overall, and is virtually nonexistent for most gun owners." - Gary Kleck, Point Blank p 304-305

And claims of disproportionate danger you have likely heard for ownership are based on poor research:

"...Consequently, when medical journal authors report that there is little evidence on a given topic, it may often really mean only that they made no serious effort to find any or chose not to report what they found. For example, in an article published in 1996 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Douglas Weil (research director of the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence, affiliated with Handgun Control) and a colleague claimed that "there is little published research on the effectiveness of gun laws" (Weil and Knox 1996:60). In fact, there were, at the time this article was published, at least forty-five empirical studies of the impact of gun laws on violent crime, suicide, and gun accidents (Tables 8.4 and 11.1). Weil then proceeded to inaccurately claim that "with little dissent, these studies are generally supportive of the thesis that well-tailored gun laws can have a beneficial impact" (ibid.:60), when in fact the studies have generally indicated that gun laws, whether "well-tailored" or not, have no measurable impact on violence rates (Chapter 11; PB;Chapter 10)...." Page 42, Gary Kleck, Targeting Guns, (Aldine de Gruyter, NY, 1997)

If gun control worked so well, there wouldn't be any school killings. After all, schools are almost all gun-free zones.

"At first glance it may seem odd or even perverse to suggest that statutory controls on the private ownership of firearms are irrelevant to the problem of armed crime, yet that is precisely what the evidence shows. Armed crime and violent crime are products of ethnic and social factors unrelated to the availability of a particular type of weapon. The numbers of firearms required to satisfy the 'crime' market is minute, and these are supplied no matter what controls are instituted. Controls have had serious effects on legitimate users of firearms, but there is no case, either in the history of this country or in the experience of other countries in which controls can be shown to have restricted the flow of weapons to criminals or in any way reduced armed crime." - Inspector Colin Greenwood, "Shooting Back," Police Review, 10 November 1978 page 1668

Answer 5

Making it illegal wouldn't stop anything. I have several guns, and go and practice at least every other week. I would have a serious problem with them being made illegal.

Further, it would take a sizable majority to change the law as it is already in the Constitution that they are legal.

Answer 6

Many people here don't have an irrational fear of guns as you obviously do.

Answer 7

As a nation, I think the U.S. is very violent. What a creepy picture you have!

Answer 8

The devil, its all his fault.