Someone give me a gun..?

Question

When the Nazi's took over Germany, the first thing they did was take everyone's guns away. In Florida and Texas, where it is legal to carry a gun, the crime rate is lower. If a couple of guys in that classroom had guns, there wouldn't have been as many people killed - I doubt someone would even try to do what this lunatic did if he knew there were guns in the classroom that would aim back in the first place.

But that's a hard pill to swallow, ain't it?

Find the cost of Freedom, buried in the ground -
Mother Earth will swallow you, lay your body down.

Answer 1

I'm not sure what your question is. But I don't see how EVERYONE being armed would help. Seems there would be mass murders every day, because once one person started shooting, everyone would have guns and we'd all end up shooting each other. And the cops having guns doesn't seem to deter people who want to commit these crimes anyway.

Guns in the hands of cops already cause unnecessary deaths at times. Imagine if we all had guns. I don't know where you are getting your statistics about "in Florida and Texas where it is legal to carry a gun." First of all, Texas's biggest city, Houston, has HIGH violent crime rates. And Florida doesn't have a low violent crime rate either.

Also, lower than where? Thirty-three states have right-to-carry concealed handguns laws! This isn't even a valid argument anyway, because there are no patrolled state borders, so people can easily cross the state borders with their weapons. You can really only compare these type of statistics between countries, not states.

Anyway, the 2nd amendment was intended to give people a right to bear arms against other nations, not against other citizens of our own country. It's actually very clear from the language of the amendment. It's the right of "the people" to bear arms, not "people." "The people" implies the nation, and the amendment specifically talks about the militia, not individuals.

Answer 2

Buy em cheap and bury em deep.

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 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 3

Alto of people don't want to accept it but, EVERYONE has the right to be armed!! If Freedom is going to cost me a few bullets to protect myself that's a small price to pay but, one I'm willing to take!

Answer 4

I favor allowing individuals to carry concealed weapons if they have had training and have not had a felony conviction. Most of the people in the self-help group Parents of Murdered Children have strong feelings about this issue as well as Citizens against Homicide. (Members of both national groups have suffered the loss of a loved one to homicide) Compassionate Friends is also a self-help group however it is for parents who have lost a child to any cause homicide, accidental death or disease.
http://www.pomc.com
http://www.pomc.org
http://www.murdervictims.com/CAH.html
http://www.compassionatefriends.org

In 1999 at the Columbine High School shooting 22 students were killed.

So far 33 have been confirmed dead at the shootings at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University — (located in the western end of the state near the borders of West Virginia and Tennessee). It has been called the worst mass shooting in modern American history. The shootings began in the Ambler Johnston Hall dormitory at 7:15 a.m. Eyewitnesses described the gunman as an Asian male about 6 feet tall. He apparently shot himself in the head after the killings; part of his face was missing when his body was found.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3045574&page=1

He was said to have quarrelled in a dormitory with his girlfriend, whom he believed had been seeing another man. A student adviser was called to sort out the row. But the killer produced a gun and shot dead both his girlfriend and the adviser.

The second shooting was at Norris Hall. Two hours later he rampaged through an engineering building on the other side of the campus in the town of Blacksburg, killing indiscriminately.

The gunman was said to be of Asian appearance and dressed in maroon hat, leather jacket and black-military style shooting vest.

He had ammunition strapped across his chest as he calmly walked from room to room refilling his two 9mm handguns as he shot students.

He locked the doors of several classrooms to stop anyone escaping. Some terrified students jumped for their lives from fourthfloor windows, while others used desks to barricade doors.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=448955&in_page_id=1811&ct=5

The gunman has been identified as a Chinese man who arrived in the United States last year on a student visa. The 24-year-old man arrived in San Francisco on United Airlines on Aug. 7 on a visa issued in Shanghai
http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/343354,vatech041607.articleprint

The number of dead is almost twice as high as the previous record for a mass shooting on an American college campus. That took place at the University of Texas at Austin on Aug. 1, 1966, when a gunman named Charles Whitman opened fire from the 28th floor of a campus tower. Whitman killed 16 and injured 31.

another good account
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070417/D8OI106O0.html
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Answer 5

nope nto at all, Nebraska jsut passed a concealed carry law. im not sure abotu all teh aprticulars but it takes a class and police license to do it, im all for it, i concur w your assessment

Answer 6

Wake up and smell the roses.

Answer 7

I agree, but it is hard to do.

Answer 8

somebody's been reading the turner diaries...

Answer 9

Couldn't have said it better myself.!!!!!!!!!