what if america banned guns?

Question

what would happen in the long run and short run of having a nation without civilans without guns? people who are totally agaisnt not banning guns, please explain why u are for guns too.

Answer 1

I agree guns don't kill people, people kill people. But we can't get rid of all the people we could at least try and make it harder for them to kill each other.

Guns are a tool, yes. But they are the only tool that the average American can buy that's purpose is only to kill. Yes you can knives and bats and cars to kill also, but that is if you use them as misdirected. A gun is a tool that if you us exactly as directed it will kill.

If America banned guns would it stop all crimes, no. Would it even stop all murders, no. But it was make things like these school shootings a lot less likely.

Very few guns used in crimes are bought illegally. Very few guns bought legally are ever used to defend people in their homes. Most civilized nations that have stricter gun control laws also have lower gun related death percentages.

Getting rid of guns does not solve all the problems but it is a start.

Answer 2

I am a proud and safe gun owner. People keep looking at the bad side of guns. Well the bad people with guns. As a hunter I use guns. I use the meat from the animals I kill. Without hunting animal population whould sky rocket. Now more people can and will get killed by deer/car accidents My friends and I go trap shooting. Not everyone who owners a gun is a trigger happy nut case shooting everything that moves. It is the second amendment. It is there for a reason.

Everyone has learned about the backlash for prohibition. Next if guns were to be banned, don't you think organized crime will have something else to stand on.

I could go on for days but people will not read it.

Answer 3

Maybe you should read the constituion before you post your questions. You should take a look at the second amendment in particular. It's our constituional right to bear arms.

Not too mention only police states don't allow thier civlian populations to carry guns. We aren't a police state.

Lastly, banning guns wouldn't stop people from killing each other nor would it reduce crime. people would just find other ways to commit crime. People stab each other lets ban knives, or what about getting beat with a stick or using your hands. the list goes on. So I ask you what's your point, what do think banning guns would accomplish?

Answer 4

A disarmed society is entirely dependent on police for protection from criminals and upon the military for defense against invaders.

The question is, how far do you trust the police and the military, and completely do you want to depend up on them?

From the PoV of a moderate pro-gun-owner, having a firearm on his person or in his home allows him to defend himself for those critical minutes it takes police to respond to a 911 call.

From the more extreme PoV, a pro-gunner may take comfort from the theory that he could help defend his country in time of invasion, by serving in a militia, or help 'take it back' if it were overthrown from within or without (though I don't think many who feel that way really consider what the life a guerilla warrior would be like).

Answer 5

The problem is not guns but the people who own them. Most legal gun owners are not using their weapons to kill it tends to be people who purchase guns illegally or have guns that are banned in this country. If you look at Canada a country where people own more guns per capita than the US crime is much lower than that of the USA. I believe people have a right to own a gun to defend themselves, but that does not mean you need an UZI or AK-47 to do it. Even if you look at cases like the DC Sniper shootings or the Colombine massacre those people acquired guns illegally, through negligent sellers.

Answer 6

Look at Britain. You'd have a government becoming more and more repressive and a population unable to defend themselves from criminals.
Guns are neccessary for law-abiding citizens to protect themselves, without them we would be at the mercy of lawbreakers.
It's also illegal to ban guns, read the constitution. There would be protests everywhere if the government tried to. it would be unenforceable like prohibition and overturned by the next president.
Citizens have the right to keep and bear arms, what would happen if the country was invaded?

Answer 7

As a liberal, I treasure the freedoms granted to us by the Bill of Rights. However, I know that if the Second Amendment were to be repealed and private ownership of guns was eliminated, it wouldn't be long before the 1st and 9th and then the remaining seven articles in the Bill of Rights were repealed.

For those who fear their common man more than they fear their government: "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." (1)

Answer 8

First of all guns do not kill, people kill. If you were to ban guns in America the only people it would affect is those who are honest. The criminals will still gain access to what they need to perform the crimes they intend to commit. We need to make punishment for criminals who commit the crimes an eye for an eye and hang them in the town squares to denture others from committing the same crime.

Answer 9

there is such a thing as a Responsible Gun Owner and if guns were banned then illegal guns would find their way into society through a black market and law abiding citizens would then be unprotected, or would have to rely on local police to protect them and police can't protect everybody at once.

Answer 10

because, if you ban Guns, then the only people who will have them is the criminals.

We cannot stop loads of Cocain coming accross the border, so how can we stop guns from doing so, it is much easier to stop drugs, then it would be to stop Guns.

The only thing a gun ban would do is strip an honest person from defending himself.