How much more must die before we have gun controls?

Question

people say guns dont kill people, people do. People wouldnt be dying of a bullet, if people didnt have guns.

People say they need guns to defend themselves from these nutjobs. well if these nutjobs couldnt just go to a store and buy a gun, then you wouldnt need to buy guns to defend yourself

Answer 1

Your clueless!!

Criminals will buy illegal Guns or make home made bombs or cut your head off with a sword ,

Do you think you can't buy things if there illegal?
Some day the only guns will be in the hands of criminals, Feel safer??

Answer 2

So what you are saying is: if some one is killed by something other than a bullet, that's OK with you?
What difference does it make what kind of weapon is used to kill someone? Most of the people in that Rwandan genocide were either clubbed to death or hacked to death with machetes.
If there had been a single armed professor or student there at Virginia Tech, that murderer would never have been able to leisurely walk around and kill thirty two people! That guy did not just walk into a store and buy a gun. You CANT just walk into a store and buy a gun like you would buy a bottle of soda. If you have not had your head in a fish tank or something the last few years, you would know that there are background checks and all sorts of things in place to prevent just such a thing from happening. It was completely illegal for that guy to have a gun under the laws we have now. Piling up more ineffective laws for him to ignore would not have prevented this tragedy. If you are naive enough to think you can legislate all weapons out of existence, here's your wake up call: Criminals will always be able to get weapons. Even if you completely disarm the population. there are still armed forces, police, government agents who will have guns in your brave new nightmare. They will be corrupt. The bad guys will have no problem getting their guns from them. It is the law abiding people who will have no weapons to defend themselves with.
Even if you eliminated guns altogether, what is to prevent that guy from going in there with a spear and killing people that way? There is always some kind of weapon which could be used.
The problem is NOT the weapons, it is how we have abandoned the value we once placed on human life in the name of "freedom". From abortion to the way we shrug off the violence in our media we have made people disposable. That is the REAL problem.

Answer 3

News flash there are gun control laws in palce already. What you don't seem to understand is that you can pass all the laws you want, but you can't legislate how a person is going to use a gun.

More to the point, people who commit gun crimes obtain thier firearms illegally, so your question is moot.

Answer 4

Unfortunately or fortunately the right to bear arms is guaranteed in the Constitution. A lot of the guns people use are illegal, which we have laws against now. I do agree with you but some people are attached to their guns.

Answer 5

In this country one of the reasons people have guns is to protect themselves from a tyrranical fascist government. Another reason is to protect ourselves and our property. It is vital to our free society to have this capability as individual citizens. One way to help our society become safer is to insist on more individual responsibility, not less. The condescending policy of lower expectations has sociological effects which are difficult to measure. The difference between crime statistics in cities with less gun control and those with more gun control is night and day. The ones with more control have more crime! Why is this? Because when more of society is armed, more of society is law abiding. I know that shooting sprees and accidents are unfortunate, but they don't discount all of the positives of firearms ownership. My children are taught firearm safety, and how to use them responsibility, but any guns in my house are absolutely inaccessable to them except under my strict supervision. Their training and experience could someday save a life if they encounter a friend or acquaintance with unsafe access to a gun. The police can't in most cases protect you and yours. I'm thankful we still have this freedom and abililty.

Answer 6

This is why.
The Human Cost of "Gun Control" Ideas
Government Dates Targets Civiliams Killed "Gun Control" Laws Features of Over-all "Gun Control" scheme
Ottoman Turkey 1915-1917 Armenians
(mostly Christians) 1-1.5 million Art. 166, Pen. Code, 1866
& 1911 Proclamation, 1915 • Permits required •Government list of owners
•Ban on possession
Soviet Union 1929-1945 Political opponents;
farming communities 20 million Resolutions, 1918
Decree, July 12, 1920
Art. 59 & 182, Pen. code, 1926 •Licensing of owners
•Ban on possession
•Severe penalties
Nazi Germany
& Occupied Europe 1933-1945 Political opponents;
Jews; Gypsies;
critics; "examples" 20 million Law on Firearms & Ammun., 1928
Weapon Law, March 18, 1938
Regulations against Jews, 1938 •Registration & Licensing
•Stricter handgun laws
•Ban on possession
China, Nationalist 1927-1949 Political opponents;
army conscripts; others 10 million Art. 205, Crim. Code, 1914
Art. 186-87, Crim. Code, 1935 •Government permit system
•Ban on private ownership
China, Red 1949-1952
1957-1960
1966-1976 Political opponents;
Rural populations
Enemies of the state 20-35 million Act of Feb. 20, 1951
Act of Oct. 22, 1957 •Prison or death to "counter-revolutionary criminals" and anyone resisting any government program
•Death penalty for supply guns to such "criminals"
Guatemala 1960-1981 Mayans & other Indians;
political enemies 100,000-
200,000 Decree 36, Nov 25 •Act of 1932
Decree 386, 1947
Decree 283, 1964 •Register guns & owners •Licensing with high fees
•Prohibit carrying guns
•Bans on guns, sharp tools •Confiscation powers
Uganda 1971-1979 Christians
Political enemies 300,000 Firearms Ordinance, 1955
Firearms Act, 1970 •Register all guns & owners •Licenses for transactions
•Warrantless searches •Confiscation powers
Cambodia
(Khmer Rouge) 1975-1979 Educated Persons;
Political enemies 2 million Art. 322-328, Penal Code
Royal Ordinance 55, 1938 •Licenses for guns, owners, ammunition & transactions
•Photo ID with fingerprints •License inspected quarterly
Rwanda 1994 Tutsi people 800,000 Decree-Law No. 12, 1979 •Register guns, owners, ammunition •Owners must justify
need •Concealable guns illegal •Confiscating powers

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Answer 7

How much more most anti-gun people can be so idiotic asking for more gun controls. We have enough gun controls laws, it is the government who is very lax in enforcing the laws, the reason more and more gun violence is happening.

Answer 8

You're so right. Because making something illegal to own makes everyone not obtain it by other means, right? Yeah, that worked great with drugs, alcohol, etc. When will people get a clue that if guns are made illegal, only the bad people will still have them?
Ever notice how the states with the least amount of gun control also tend to have the lowest gun crime rates?

Answer 9

The problem is that people aren't allowed to conceal guns in public for protection. If those people had guns on them I bet you everything I have that the death rate wouldn't have nearly been as bad as it was. No one can protect themselves anymore thanks to gun control laws.

Answer 10

If guns kill, then matches cause arson, women cause rape, cars cause DUI, pencils cause misspelling and children are responsible for being molested.

People bad, not inanimate objects

Answer 11

A few less than when all the guns become illegal.