Why do we not have tougher gun laws in the country?

Question

Look at what has happend at virgina tech. Look at the newspaper each and every day and read the headlines of the innocent victims of gun violence. I read the storys of assault weapons being used againt police, and i read storys of people being killed by guns bought at gun fairs and i cant understand it. What will it take for the federal government to do something. Why are they opposed to a ban on assault weapons? Why must we live in fear that the criminal element in our society has the right to bear arms just as much as those in the NRA who raise their rights above our rights to live without gunfire in your streets in our homes...at our schools? What must it take for america to wake up!!!! Our gun loving ways must end. This is not a society any longer who has the right to bear arms like our forefathers with a musket and a dream of freedom. How, as people, can we make our failed government hear us to take the guns, assault weapons and the fear we live in our of our lives?

Answer 1

As of right now, foreigners on a visa cannot own buy a firearm. Therefore, this individual bought a firearm illegally. Tougher gun laws do not stop people from breaking the laws.

Answer 2

As long as an issue is politically polarized like gun laws are, you will have a tough time getting overwhelming support either way. The NRA has a large and effecting lobby. They think that every nut should be allowed to carry a firearm.

The second amendment is what they lean on, because its nearly impossible to overturn an amendment. The way the amendment is worded can be interpreted a number of different ways.

The NRA seems to think that it is everyones obligation to stockpile weapons and ammunition to protect yourself, others think that once the national guard was formed, the need for a private militia was negated.

The question will go on, as long as politicians depend on voters to obtain office.

My view is if gun laws will save one life, then thats a good enough reason. Sure gun laws wouldn't stop all of the violence, but it may stop some of it. It is high time we get off this need to have a glok for rabbit hunting, and an assault rifle to hunt deer. These weapons were designed to do one thing, kill another human being.

They would have you think that a criminal would think twice if everyone had a gun. Sorry, but criminals are nuts, and don't think. I know that I would not feel safer if I knew that every untrained 18 to 85 year old person, men and women, had a firearm. Crime would go up faster then we can imagine.

There are other ways to protect yourself, but we as a people are obstinate. We don't think we should use discretion as to where we go and things we say. Yet many times crimes are committed because of what we say,and where we are when we say it.

Sorry, I don't want to ramble on, great question. John

Answer 3

I do not own a weapon, and I abhor violence. Nonetheless, I can't support gun control. The right to bear arms is guaranteed in the Bill of Rights in order to allow the populace to protect themselves from the evils of a corrupt government. We must preserve our rights (all of them!) if we are to continue to have a government focused on the people.

There have been times in this countries history when the goverment has gotten very powerful and began to take away the rights of the people. As Ben Franklin said, "Any person who would give up his rights for the sake of security will have neither." An armed populace keeps the government from becoming a despotic entity that rules by force.

I can never accept the violence that occurs in the world, much of it due to the convenience of guns. I don't see the answer in taking away the guns, but in addressing the issues that provoke the violence. There is a social imbalance in the country and unequal oportunity. The prevailing attitude is one of selfishness and fear. America and every American needs to focus on building a community and taking care of other people in the country and in the world. I know it sounds unrealistic, but if each of us began to treat other people with respect and caring, the climate of selfishness and fear would go away. It won't happen, unless we each do it. That's what a community is all about. YOU have to be part of it.

Tough laws exist concerning how you can legally use guns. We need to change the atmosphere in this country so that those laws make sense again. Adding more laws is not going to make the problems go away. They may just be hidden further under a smoke screen of media coverage.

Answer 4

There are 200,000,000 million guns in this country.. less than 1% of them are illegal in any way.. even still.. that is almost 2 million guns that can cause a tragedy at any second. Yes, there are a lot of wishy-washy state guidelines.. and there could be a whole lot more federal oversight to set a national standard. But, we, as a country, are handcuffed by our own Constitution on this one.
The funding needs to be put into mental health care.. give the deranged mind a safe place to work out the issues. The country can use the job growth.. put security guards and metal detectors in all the schools, malls, universities, (nobody seems to have a problem with the ones at the airports and courthouses) Safety concern? How is it unsafe to have one way in, and 20 ways out? Yeah.. it is inconvenient (and expensive).. but so is tragedy. I will get over the mild annoyance when I realize it could easily save my life.
It would take years and years and years to get the guns off the streets. It is far more complicated of an issue that any simple solution can cure.

Answer 5

Guns don't kill people; people kill people.

No, I am not a gun owner or enthusiast, just a realist.

Sadly, tougher gun laws will not take care of the problem because people who abuse guns have no respect for law and find a way around it, whether it be getting someone else to purchase a gun for them, "borrowing" it from a relative without the relatives knowledge, stealing it from someones home or business, or buying a stolen gun off of the street.

What happened at Virginia Tech the actions of a psychologically disturbed individual and had he not had a gun, he would have used something else just as lethal, (because to chain the door from the inside is obviously a pre-medicated act) like a pipe bomb or other explosive device that could easily be made by legally obtainable means.

The cure for the problem is better parenting, better support systems, better identification and intervention of people at risk for such psychotic behaviors and educating our youths as young as grade school about treating people with dignity and respect and how to respectfully end a friendship or romantic engagement that allows the person on the receiving end to still feel respected because it is due to different goals and priorities in life, not necessarily because they are a "bad" person...just not the "right" one for the relationship.

Answer 6

This fool had 2 9MM handguns here so forget the automated weapons herte however the Feds would desire to supply up merchandising weapons and kit to every physique below 30 until they bypass specific tests to make a purchase order however the Feds would desire to visual show unit those youthful young ones procuring specific kit as this could have raised each form of pink flags. Now theyre saying this fool had psychological subject concerns so he don't have been waiting to purchase any gun and his mom could have known there substitute into hassle while he had those weapons . what's a mom procuring those form of weapons for? some thing extra here than we are able to ever understand

Answer 7

When people realize that it is their lack of moral fiber in this country that is the problem, not the gun.

people want to blame anything and everything else for the problem but themselves and look for short term solutions for long term problems that will not work.

I read a Bumper Sticker once that said:

Dear God, why is their so much violence in school?
God replied: " Dear concerned student, because I am not allowed in school".

Every since Madeline Murray O'Hare had prayer taken out of school the violence has risen dramatically, but secular people refuse to accept that reason and fabricate psuedo reasons for themselves in an attempt to justify immorality in every phase of life in this country, justifying all sorts of profanity and immorality all in the name of social tolerance when they themselves are hypocrites for doing so because they preach social tolerance but refuse to accept Christinaity.
If you preach social tolerance than you accept Christinaity, it is all the way or nothing, you don't just pick and choose what is "comfortable" for you.

Answer 8

Using the Patriot Act this President has stripped away many of our Constitutional rights. If he were able to take away our 2nd Amendment rights this country would cease to be a democracy.

Anyone who comes for my weapon better have more than a piece of paper to do it with.

Answer 9

Because the N.R.A. has fought tooth and nail against any such laws, and with all the money they gather up from their membership sales they are a very powerful lobby in Washington.

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Answer 10

DAMN RIGHT
See it is just like drugs...we have tough laws on drugs and now America has no drugs....oh...um...see what I mean is........nevermind I guess