What are the pros and cons to gun control?

Answer 1

Pro: Less accidental gun deaths

Cons:
More crime, both gun and otherwise.
The creation of a gun blackmarket. Gun dealing.
Lots of lost jobs in firearm and hunting industry.
Udderly defenseless from governemnt.
More criminals have more money from selling illegal guns.
Entire sporting events die out.
History and tradition lost.
Animal overpopulation.
One in the government can freely change the Consttution.
1st ammendment no longer safe.
Jails over populated.
Potential civil war.

Answer 2

Depends on what specifically you are talking about?

Making it harder for the average, law abiding citizen to get a permit and a gun would obviously be the con. No matter how many restrictions, or laws, it is not going to prevent criminals from owning guns, so that is also a con because it is a waste of time and money.

More gun control is not going to save more lives or stop people from having accidents. That is the responsibility of the gun owner to practice awareness and be properly trained. We have a ton of laws of the road, but people still drive drunk, fall asleep at the wheel, not pay attention and hurt others. The only answer would be everyone takes the bus..but that's not realistic.

Answer 3

"If there was universal registration of guns(as there is for cars,etc) only non criminals would have guns."

What the hell are you talking about? If government suddenly demanded that everyone register their guns, you think criminals are going to stand in line and do so? Registration of firearms would not apply to criminals because...wait for it...THEY ARE CRIMINALS. BY DEFINITION, THEY DO NOT OBEY LAWS!
Even if all newly manufactured guns were registered, the millions of firearms that are currently privately owned wouldn't be registered. And as knowledge of a crime scene will not identify a gun that is not present, registration does nothing other than let the state know where to go to confiscate the weapons of law abiding citizens. That is exactly what Hitler did in Holland. The Dutch government mandated firearms registration years before the Germans invaded. So the Nazis simply took the records, and went door-to-door collecting the peoples only defense against the invaders.

Answer 4

I honestly do not see anything positive about gun control. Good, law biding citizens are not a threat to anyone. Yet, no matter what gun control laws you pass, these are the only people that will obey them.

Criminals will still be armed. So, gun control disarms the wrong group of people.

Firearms are simply devices. They are potentially dangerous as are many other devices we use every day. What matters is the intentions of the people operating the device.

If people like me have a hundred firearms you have nothing to fear. If a criminal has a baseball bat you are not safe.

Politicians know darn well that gun control laws do not inhibit criminals. But they like to pass them since it creates the illusion that they are doing something about crime.



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Answer 5

The "pros" are that by removing all private, and possibly public ownership of firearms, people would not be able to shoot one another.
The "cons" are that people, with the exception of "gangbangers", and other criminals would not be able to defend themselves against rape, robbery, murder, or attack. The government at any time could setup a dictatorship, and make people virtual slaves. Before you decide which is best, I urge you to study, all countries that have gun control, and see what the effect has been on the crime rate, and in some countries, what the government has become.

Answer 6

Gun control= Slavery

Answer 7

Pros - None

Cons -

1 - If guns are outlawed, then only outlaws will carry guns
2 - If the government wants into your home, you have one less means of defending it.
3 - If we are ever invaded by another country in a warlike manner, wouldn't it be better if you could fight them off from your house rather than having to wait for the National Guard to come by?

Answer 8

Pros: Reduce accidental death and injury and intentional death and injury by unstable or untrained individuals

Cons: Law enforcement and the justice system are not adequate to protect people in some cases.

Other Con: If the government demands that free citizens give up a possible method of resistance, then it diminishes the concept of government by consent.

Answer 9

Gun control will only be observe by law abiding people. Criminals will not observe or obey gun control law hence making it a bad law. Furthermore, the laws now in effect are so porous and not dully imposed by the officers of the law.

Answer 10

well lets see, if someone breaks into your house, would you rather scream at them or shoot them? if guns were outlawed, only the outlaws would have them. also, i live where sometimes i HAVE to have a gun to walk outside. I have been treed by some mighty mean boars. I avoid the big game, but, if cornered and its him or me, oh well, rather it be him. I would have been raped when i was younger had it not been for the gun hidden by my bed. no i didnt shoot him, but i didnt get raped either. I believe in being able to protect myself, my father fought for my freedom and that right.