Don't you think after the latest incident at VTech - Guns should be banned?
2007-04-16 06:27:27 · 37 answers · asked by zorro 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Hillbilly rednecks.
2007-04-16 06:31:28 · answer #1 · answered by bashfulmonkey 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
If you could be 100% certain NO ONE had a gun. Guns are constantly smuggled in, never registered etc. How long do you think it would last until the next shipment was smuggled in? 1 day? 2? Banning guns is just not realistic in this day and age.
Seriously, do you think if a law were passed to ban guns, all the criminals would say "OMG, I have to turn this in, it's illegal" Instead, think about this, how long do you think that creep would have been able to shoot if everyone carried a gun? I'd bet 5 minutes before someone got him.
Besides, why is the gun the focus here? It is an inanimate tool, totally ineffectual without a hand on the trigger. If it wasn't a gun, maybe this guy would have run into a crowd with a knife, or a club, explosives, or a semi truck? Again all tools in the hands of someone dangerously mentally unbalanced, and just as capable of murder. So where do you stop disarming people? Sorry, no more metal cutlery, you might hurt someone? Sorry, no more cars to prevent drunk driving deaths? Sorry, you have to wear foam gloves so you don't beat someone? It's the person, not the tool.
Losing family and friends suddenly is excruciatingly painful no matter how it happens. I deeply sympathize with the families and their loss.
I'm not a gun owner, and I would love to get weaponry out of the hands of these nuts, but I just don't think there's a hope of that ever happening.
2007-04-16 07:01:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah get rid of the guns and then there wont be violent deaths any longer right?
They dont have guns in the US prison system, people get murdered anyhow.
Most people have the ability to make bombs and other explosives that they could make out of normal household products. All you have to do is go on the internet and learn how to mix them properly and make an explosive that when placed in a populated area would kill or maim alot of people.
In the Oklahoma City bombing they used fertilizer and diesel fuel.
Guns are not the problem, people are. You want to ban people too? When someone wants to kill people they find a way to do it.
Take guns away and they will just come up with some other way to do it.
I guess you could keep banning things until we cannot have any sort of freedom at all.
Reasonably intelligent people know this fact, I guess the problem is that the world if full of people that are not reasonably intelligent and they dont look at the big picture.
If you banned guns then those who follow the law would no longer have the ability to buy them, thats it. Those who wish to break the law would still find new ways to kill, or they would just get guns in an illegal fashion.
So basically you would be taking the rights away from those who follow the law, the criminal element would still be able to obtain them, or they would still find a way to inflict death without them.
Its amazing to me how quick people in this country wish to give their rights up to the government.
2007-04-16 06:40:12 · answer #3 · answered by h h 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The latest incident at Vtech isn't going to have any impact on gun banning at all. Things like that have been happening forever, and if it hasn't resulted in gun control yet, it isn't likely going to happen now. The gun lobby is too rich and powerful, and they arguably have the Bill of Rights on their side (though it specifically says "for a militia," which is NOT why most people own guns today). Hopefully a compromise will eventually be reached, but before then don't count on any gun bans anytime soon. Sorry!
2007-04-16 06:36:14 · answer #4 · answered by Mr. Taco 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Nope. The actions of a few should not change the laws for the majority. There are millions of gun owners out there, only a few commit crimes with them. Why don't we ban spoons? Do you realize that 100% of the obese people in America use spoons?
It's a tragedy to be sure. But banning guns is not the answer. Personally, I don't own a gun, but I'm still against a ban.
2007-04-16 06:37:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Brilliant, Einstein -- if you take guns away from law-abiding citizens, who's left? The criminals, who don't give a rat's @$$ about anyone else in the first place, or the police and the military. Do you have any idea how easy it would be for the military and the police to band together, rise up, overthrow the government, and declare a state of martial law if citizens weren't able to exercise their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms? No, the answer is very simple: For starters, you need to actually PUNISH people who commit crimes with guns (instead of coddling them in institutions where they get free cable, free access to the Internet, free workout equipment, free meals that are required by law to be better than the food our troops in Iraq are eating right now; you get the idea). The next step is to prohibit people who obviously don't have the brains or the maturity to handle firearms safely (like you) from having them.
2007-04-16 06:34:06 · answer #6 · answered by sarge927 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
A. there are far too many guns out there for any sort of ban to be effective.
B. I do not have a problem with guns, just the bullets. I have a problem with going to Walmart and seeing a pallet of bullets on sale. I would support government controlled ammo depots though, it would not solve anything immediately, but it would be a start and a decent compromise.
2007-04-16 06:37:16 · answer #7 · answered by Steve V 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No..because if you did, the only ones who would be affected is the ones who honestly own them.
A Gun ban would not be affective, The law or the police would not be able to stop them, we can't stop shipments of Cocain coming into this country, so how in the heck are we going to stop Guns, when it is far easier to smuggle guns.
people who want to ban Guns are people who are looking for a short term solution to a long term problem that will not work.
The problem is our society, and how people are raising their children.
banning guns is like placing a cheap bandaid on a gushing wound, it will not work.
2007-04-16 06:34:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Cars should be banned as well.
What is used in almost every crime, can be used as a deadly weapon, carries explosive compounds, can be bought with no questions asked and can be transported across state lines and international boundaries with little concern?
Answer: A car
I would not be surprised if the killer today, drove a car to the university.
2007-04-16 17:43:25 · answer #9 · answered by Eldude 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because of the gun lobby, that is never going to happen. Besides, most of the criminals have guns that are not licensed. If guns were banned, besides the police, who would be left with guns?
2007-04-16 06:32:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yes right after they ban drinking, and all cars and the such.
Guns are not the issue, it is the person not the weapon.
If guns were banned the bad guys would still have them, look at illgal drugs, if more good guys had and carried guns, this would not happen
2007-04-16 06:31:37 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋