Are the Americans as stupid as G. W. Bush is, or why do they let people kill eachother with guns...?

Question

Are Americans stupid, or why do they let people to posess firearms? I don't understand what is the purpose of owning a gun... To kill inocent people, or to be killed by some crazy person???

As I read in this article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18134671/?GT1=9246 ,
president G. W. Bush thinks it is right that people should own firearms... But what for? Has there been even one case when firearms proved useful for something?

Why does the president of this sorry country say this, through one of his spokesmen: “The president believes that there is a right for people to bear arms, but that all laws must be followed,” Perino said. I believe it is sad and appaling that he says this, after all these people were murdered...

Shouldn't the law that enables people to own guns be changed, so that noone could own guns?

Eric J, you are a real man. You are a law abiding citizen. You own a gun. You are not an easy target... hahaha...
Anyways, please applaud Eric J for being a real man thanks to his gun... :)
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Yes, you convinced me now... I think now that all men, women and children should posses guns and take them everywhere with them, so that they can defend themselves if needed....

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Answer 1

no, the right to bear arms should not be banned. if you do the simple math, criminals will still obtain guns because(believe it or not) they do not regard the law. I managed a restaraunt that had a sign displayed right on the front door that disallowed guns inside the restaraunt, yet we were robbed at gunpoint 4 times in one month. why did the criminal bring a gun in with such a sign on the door?
the real issue is the americans (I am one too) stupidly believe that a manufactured product is somehow responsible for deaths and injury. The last time I fired a handgun, it would not discharge without the trigger being pulled by a human being(that would be me also). And since i am a law abiding citizen the gun that was being controlled by me did not kill or maim anyone. If you want to slow down the number of innocent people killed, then arm the citizens. the criminals are smart enough to know that an armed citizen is not an easy target.

Answer 2

The whole purpose of the right to bear arms was so the people can take back over the government if a Tyranny arises. We were formed because the English king was a tyrant and we had to break free from that. If the only people with firearms are government officials then you end up with a dictatorship that can do what ever it wants to the people and no one can stop it from doing that. So the answer to your question is no we are not stupid. We understand to have a government of the people and by the people we have to be able to form a well regulated militia in case someone decides to while in office take over and turn our democracy into a tyranny and we can take it back to what our founding fathers originally intended. Of course you wouldn't like that. Would you rather we go around strapping bombs to ourselves and making car bombs?

Answer 3

Sure buddy, change the law so that when someone breaks into my house I can just throw a lamp at them. Lay off the pipe for awhile...you might discover you can actually think for yourself. Where the hell are you from? The US is such a "sorry country" but we outrank yours. Do you think guns just walk into places and start shooting all on their own? You don't think a gun has ever been proven useful? That's a weak point you're trying (and completely failing) to make. But go right ahead and think what you want--but when you get attacked one day and the only person around that can help you has a gun, don't go crying to them. Guns aren't useful, remember?

Answer 4

Today's shooting at Virginia Tech was an example of too few guns, not too many. Criminals will always be able to get guns: if they're banned in the US, the drug runners will just include them in their daily cocaine, heroin, etc. shipments. Those have been banned for decades and there's no shortage of illegal drugs in the US. One legally armed student could have stopped the guy in Virginia after his first shot, except that Virginia Tech bans students from carrying weapons even if they're licenced. Mass shootings tend to happen where the victims have been disarmed by law or by the property owner for the criminals' convenience.

Has there been even one case when firearms proved useful for something? Of course. They helped drive the British out of the colonies in the late 1700's. One stopped a shooter from shooting more people in a mall in Utah a few weeks ago. If guns are useless, why do we require police to carry them?

Answer 5

Gun laws are in place, however crazed people find ways around the law.

Here is a book title you should read before you go off on your anti-gun rants.

More Guns = Less Crime John Lott UIUC PhD Sociology.

You need to read the constitution, bill of rights and those documents that preceded them the Federalist and AntiFederalist papers. Gun's are only a tool, however they remain the individual's protection, I enjoy hunting, shooting paper, in doing so I remain a protector of the Bill of Rights, the founders in their infinite wisdom believed that without the 2nd amendment all individual rights would be usurped.

Something for you people to think about:

--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. —

Answer 6

And just how did America become the richest, most powerful nation again? Well, first of all, why would another nation invade a country where individual citizens bear arm. The would get their asses kicked. Most defenders of this law are sensible law abiding people who practice gun safety. Its usually criminals and the mentally ill who kill people.

Answer 7

I own many guns, and i go to collage. Guns are not the problem with society. The majority of people who own guns don't commit crimes. Its the stupid losers who decide to kill someone. Don't blame the guns for this terrible event that some piece of S**** thought was necessary to commit. People owning guns keeps the government from getting to powerful that's why the constitution allows us to own them. People will kill each other guns or no guns plain and simple. I've had many bad days in my life and i never once decided start shooting. People without rational thought are the problem.

Answer 8

Read the constitution. The second amendment states " A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed". Bush didn't write that.

Answer 9

So where does alcohol fit on your list of deathly killers? It kills more people than guns, drugs, car accidents, tobacco, and accidents combined!

Or are you just another jealous fruitloop from some socialist or communist country where you can't even own an original thought?

No Americans are not stupid, but we all can see that you are so clueless, that even if you soaked yourself in clue, did the clue dance in the middle of the clue mating season you'd still be clueless.

Now, go back to swimming in the squalor you call a life

Answer 10

Obviously you live somewhere where there are no guns allowed.

Do you have no murders at all?

Cars kill people just like guns.

Should we ban cars?

You are uneducated on guns and don't understand. The people in Germany just before World War II had their guns confiscated by the government and look what hap pend, millions of people were killed.

This could not happen here in the US as if they tried to take the guns away, we would use them to defend our rights as guaranteed by our constitution.