Do you think it is to easy to get a gun; should there be stronger gun laws?

Question

I understand and agree that it is in our constitution, "the right to bare arm." At what point to we specify what types of arms. I personally know people with automatic weapons, do you really need a M-16 to defend yourself. I don't think our founding fathers meant for people to own anti-aircraft weapons as a way to defend themselves. It is to easy to get weapons at gun shows and through people who obtain them legally trying to make a buck. The only time I really hear organizations like the NRA really getting out in the public to promote gun safety is when someone talks about reforming the laws. I was working at a hospital on the trauma team in Colorado when Columbine went down. I learned about the shootings from the people we had come in. If you don't think there should be tougher laws then fine but, what are you going to do to keep this from happening again?

Answer 1

I believe that everyone should have a right to be protected...but I don't believe everyone should have the right to own a gun.

People such as police should be ones carrying a gun Because the'd be using it for a good purpose. Also, I do believe if you go hunting, you should still have a gun. But only on hunting grounds. a lot of people who hunt leave or keep their guns in there trucks...and to me that's not safe.

If their were laws like these, then there would be a huge cut back on murder and violence.

Answer 2

Currently in the United States there are more than 25,000 gun laws in effect, yet gun violence continues unabated. What does that tell you? Why pass more laws when the ones we currently have are not being enforced?

Guns cause crime just like pencils cause misspelled words. If you take a handgun and place it on a table, that handgun will lay there until the end of time...unless someone comes along and picks it up. It ain't the gun, it's the people using them. "Controlling" guns won't work; never has, never will. Controlling the people who use them will. Put a criminal in prison, and he's no longer a problem. Put a ban on guns, and only criminals will have them.

Need proof of this? Okay, here it is. Take a look at Great Britain and Australia. Both of these nations have totally banned private ownership of firearms, and the crime rate in both has either continued unabated or increased. In Australia, violent crimes such as housebreaking, assault, robbery, rape, and murder have jumped dramatically since they outlawed private gun ownership. Tragic proof that "gun control" doesn't work.

And in both nations, it all started the same way - with simple gun registration.

Gun shows, contrary to popular anti-gun zealots' beliefs, do not make it easier for people to buy guns. If a criminal wants a gun, he's not going to wait for a gun show to buy one - he's going to go down to the local streetcorner and buy one there. Or he's going to break into someone's house and steal one. Either way, he's not going to go to a gun show. More smoke and mirrors and truth distortion by the anti-gun zealots and the Brady Bunch.

Passing more laws will have no effect other than to make it easier for law-abiding citizens to legally purchase firearms. Once again, the criminal isn't going to walk into a gun shop and buy a gun, but the law-abiding citizen will.

More gun laws isn't the answer. Strict, 100% enforcement of the laws we already have on the books is.

But try telling the liberal left and the Brady Bunch that.

Answer 3

No, I think it is too difficult to get a gun. I remember when you could walk into a hardware store an buy one. Nobody had a problem with that.

I think that the problem is that it is too difficult to get rid of the miscreants that are causing the crime problem. Our politicians and our courts have done everything they could to encourage crime, to protect criminals and to harass law-abiding citizens.

Most serious crime is cause by the same small number of criminals. They are in and out of jail, all of their life. All we need is to put these people away for life. It wouldn't cost anything. They would have to work for their upkeep. if they refused to work, they wouldn't eat. It's really simple.

Unfortunately our criminal politicians are not likely to solve the problem for us. They use crime to justify taking our rights from us. They are a big part of the problem.

Answer 4

It's too easy to get an illegal gun by criminals who will most likely use them. Gun shows are part of the problem, with lax ID required to purchase them. Once a gun is legally purchased, it's easy to sell them on the street. If it's stolen in a burglary, you can bet they will be used for illegal activities. More gun laws will not help. More enforcement of the laws on the books allready would go a long way toward thwarting gun crimes.

Answer 5

has anyone bothered to read history , every country who has been over run by the communist or any other illegal group , the first thing they did was to register guns and then confiscate them , so the people would be helpless when they arrived, Just ask any Pole Russian or chec, Finland , or any where the people were taken over, and if you can justify taking our guns , then give me one good reason , and I will show you 100 reasons why no one should interfere with our guns including criminals as when we are invaded we will also need their help , and we will be invaded, it is only a matter of time, America has been a tyrant to so many other country's and made so many enemy's we don't have any friends period, and we can trace it all back to our country's total support of Israel, and the fact that when our guns are finally taken we will be easy to take,

Answer 6

No. The criminals that use guns, don't go through the proper legal channels to obtain their guns. If you make stronger gun laws, you're only making it tougher on the law abiding citizen.

Answer 7

Getting guns legally may be 1000 percent harder than picking one up on the street. In most major cities unregistered guns are available with no problems. It is the law abiding citizen that suffers from strong gun laws.

Answer 8

Laws are only effective because of voluntary compliance by law abiding citizens, they have NO effect whatsoever on the crimional element.We have too may gun laws aready and they are just that EMPTY LAWS.Yes, guns are easy to obtain on the black market, but not so easy by legitimate means.

Answer 9

If you live in a society where you feel you need a gun for "self protection" then I think there are bigger problems than owning a gun will solve. why, in the 21st century are we "on our own"?
Can't we do better than this?

I know unstable people with a history of spousal abuse that legally own a handgun! (this is a bad idea).
I do not wish to own a gun, I think it is too attractive for criminals to steal, or someone in my household to shoot me!

To quote chris rock, we need bullet control!
In countries with fewer guns, you are much less likely to be shot.
I think this is desirable

Answer 10

Illegal arms have direct link with street crimes and terrorism. Most disturbing fact is that if you have money, there is no problem for getting weapons and no attention is being paid to this aspect. I firmly believe that you cannot avoid terrorism and street crimes unless you control supply of illegal arms. Experience has shown that licensed arms only with a few exceptions are not used to commit a crime. There should be strict laws for sale of illegal arms throughout the world. War against terrorism and crimes should also extend to war against supply of illegal arms.