How many more killing do you think it will take before America realizes they need to outlaw fire arms?

Question

Immediately after G. Bush’s statement; I was astonished to here the news reporter say: “but what can he do to have stopped the violence?”
19 places of learning have had shootings in just the past ten years in America and they are still blind to the solution? What a level of IGNORANCE!!!!

Answer 1

don't it's the only way the world can keep controll of american population

I mean really people, I know most of you don't know that you there are other people outside america but we are here and we all think your gun law thing is stupid, thats why no other civilised country has such lax gun laws!

Besides if a guy with a shot gun came into your house in the middle of the night with the sole intent of shooting you, you having a gun won't help

Answer 2

It is way past the point where America can outlaw guns.
This shooting & the others of the same type that went below were inevitable. Just as ineveitable as the fact that it will absolutely happen again. And when it does, they will again be asking "Why has this happened?"
America will never, ever get rid of guns in the home because the population on America is scared iof its own shadow. Mainly because that is how their government likes it.If the people are scared they are easier to control.
I feel sorry for the relatives of the victims. You think that your children are going to be safe. After all, they are only at school/college/university getting on with their everyday routine.

Answer 3

Guns are a critical element to our existence as a free society. The founders realized there may come a time in the future when we have to overthrow our own government, just as they had to do. The only way they could ensure that we would have the ability to limit the power of the state is to protect our right to own guns. This is not alarmist or extremist, it is fact. If you are willing to surender your second amendment right to own a firearm, you are working against the very principles on which this country were founded. The solution to gun violence is not in gun control, but in how we respect life in society. Through a number of ways (which I will not get into here), American society has devalued human life so drastically that this kid probably was not even thinking about what a life altering effect he was having on hundreds of people. He did not grasp what it meant to actually be taking a life.

Answer 4

Outlawing guns is not a viable solution. When you beat your sword into a plowshare, you are at the mercy of those who don't. You would have law abiding citizens give up their 2nd amendment rights leaving us all at the mercy of the criminal element who most assuredly will NOT be turning their weapons in. Like in Iraq, people with guns will simply put them away and wait for another day. I will neither confirm nor deny ownership of any weapons, but hear me on this, I would not voluntarily give up a weapon if I happen to have one. These acts of violence, such as the VA school shooting in the news at the moment are acts of crazed or insane individuals, and NO legislation can stop the crazies from being crazy. Improvised explosive devices are outlawed in Iraq, but look at what is happening over there, with several .bombs going off every day. Do you really think passing a law outlawing guns will stop the problem of crazy people getting their hands on a gun and shooting up a school? If you believe this, then in my humble opinion, you are deluded.

Answer 5

Outlawing firearms won't do any good. (At least in my opinion.) You'll take guns away from the people that have them legally and the people that shouldn't have them will. Think about it: One person with a gun could have killed that shooter after the first two victims were killed. That would have saved so many others.....

I'd be for raising the age and putting more limitations on who could purchase them. At the same time, elementary and high schools need metal detectors and the availability of police officers to search bags. (If there is a weapon threat.)

;-D

Answer 6

A high level of common sense is more like it.
Who will stop those who still have guns when all the law abiding citizens turn theirs in? Guns will still be out there. It is naive and childish to "whistle past the graveyard" and think that violence will diminish with an ban on fire arms.
I am no gun toting militiaman, but do believe that firearms have a place in our society, and that unstable, self centered, violent people do not.

Answer 7

Yeh, buddy. You keep thinking that's the solution. In case you live under a rock, let me enlighten you on something. I could go outside of my house right now in a small mid-western town and buy cocaine or weed easily. How do I know? Because i used to do it. But wait a minute.....they're supposed to be illegal?!?

Making something illegal won't stop it, man. Only the law abiding citizens who wouldn't do this type mass killing anyway would follow the gun control thing.

Answer 8

You really think bad guys can't and will not buy guns because of a law? Criminals are always going to have a way to buy guns. So more laws on gun control is not the answer. You are full of ignorance if you think a law will keep a gun out of a bad guys hand.

Answer 9

I don't think "outlawing guns" is going to solve anything. There will always be a way to get a gun fairly easily. There are plenty of illegally-owned guns out there. The government is doing the right thing by limiting who can legally own guns (i.e. people with history of mental illness, convicted felons). I think each state could require background checks, because not all of them do. Regardless, it is still easy to get your hands on a gun. I am not willing to give up my constitutional right to own a gun because there plenty of unstable people and/or criminals out there who might try to kill me or my family.

Answer 10

It would be like the illegal immigrants and drugs, we cant control either.
So what makes you think that it would be any different with the guns.
Thugs would find a way to have guns, so that would leave the law abiding citizen unable to protect his family and property.

Answer 11

My cold dead hands and all of that. If, perchance, guns weren't so strictly regulated, one of those students today had been armed, many lives may have been saved. It happened in Utah last week. The only thing that saved people in a mall was an off duty cop who was armed. Let those who wish to carry a gun do so legally. Set the penalty for carrying a gun at a minimum of 20yrs in jail.