everyone should , by law , carry a handgun to defend oneself if necessary , does this argument make sense ?

Question

I am merely asking what the NRA been advocating for a long time . the argument is if you carry a gun , at least you can defend yourself , at best you can shoot the shooter and save innocent lives.

when everyone knows for sure everyone else is carrying a gun , might be it can have a deterrent effect , like nuclear capabilities . But it has to be compulsory and legally enforced by law .

Answer 1

Yes, it would.

People see things like this happen and think that it would not if no one had guns. That is entirely unrealistic as they do exist in this world and however much wishing you do, they will always exist. The problem with gun laws is that the reason governments make gun laws is to keep guns from falling into the wrong people's hands, criminals. The problem with this logic is obvious, why would a criminal not get a hold of a gun because of a law? Wouldn't he just break the law and obtain guns anyway? Of course he would. The problem with gun laws is they are meant to keep guns out of the hands of people that do not follow laws. They only effectively keep guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens.

It is actually a proven fact that banning guns in general actually INCREASES crime in a country, Britain and Australia. Banning guns only takes them away from the people we want to actually have. A criminal fears private citizens with guns the most. A cop will not shoot them, but a private citizen will. Taking guns away from people and making them rely on police leads to things like VA TECH. With question of police abuse aside, police cannot always be there and are 10 minutes away even if you do have a cell phone. 21 people can die in 10 minutes, in 10 seconds, to 1 gunman. Had someone in the class been allowed to conceal and carry, no one would have been hurt. The government wants to take away guns, but cannot possibly replace the safety that they provide.

If everyone was required to own and know how to use a gun, things like this would be occurrences of the past. Those that want to say everyone owning guns would result in mass shootouts; I merely have to point to history... or to Texas. Everyone owns guns and somehow society manages to continue without mass shootouts. This is a decent question for everyone to ponder and think about what I have said. Do not just dismiss it as some crazy gun-toting NRA member...

Answer 2

I don't think it's a good idea to require it, but Switzerland has similar laws and they don't seem to have alot of gun violence. They actually hand out guns to this citizens. It's a national security thing for them.

There was a city in I believe Illinois that passed a mandatory ownership law, about 10 yrs ago, but they don't enforce it. There was also a city in Florida (as many large cities do anyway) that passed a gun ban around the same time. Guess what happened in these 2 cities. The city in Illinois had their crime rate drop by a HUGE percentage (70% if I remember right). The city in Florida had their crime rate skyrocket. Some may say that I am making this up, because I am vague on the details, but give me a break it was 10 or 20 yrs ago.

Answer 3

The number of people who would actually go crazy and start shooting people at random as the student did at VT yesterday is very small. If every body had a gun, they wouldn't go rampaging through schools, malls, churches, and post offices shooting everyone in sight.

If everyone had a gun, here is what would happen. The incident yesterday never would have happened. If he knew that every student had a gun to defend themselves, he wouldn't have gone in there and started shooting. If I walk into a room with the intent of shooting someone, and all 50 people in the room have a gun pointed at me, I will go somewhere that I know nobody has a gun (England for example.)

If the guy had been crazy enough to go through with his plan, he would have only fired off a couple of rounds before the other students filled him with lead.

When are we going to realize that gun control laws only take guns out of the hands of innocent, law-abiding citizens. Criminals will not turn in their guns for cash. Wake up, people.

Answer 4

i could carry a extreme-high quality little handbag-sized .22 revolver (hid in my handbag) a minimum of component of the time. i'm particular some human beings think of carry facilitates will bring about huge taking pictures events interior the streets, yet weapons would be a extensive deterrent to criminals who prey on regulation-abiding electorate. A highway thug who will pay no heed to gun rules would be lots much less in all possibility to accost a pair exterior a eating place if there's a solid possibility one in each of them is likewise armed. yet in states that don't enable carry facilitates, the criminals are the only ones wearing weapons. i know a guy who keeps a handgun on the seat of his luxurious motor vehicle (that's criminal) while he's utilising around city. On one social amassing, while he replaced into stopped at a purple mild at evening on a downtown highway, a guy rushed in the direction of his motor vehicle from the streetcorner the place he'd been status. My chum purely lifted the pistol to teach that he replaced into armed and the guy raised his palms submissively and lower back to his nook. Given what would have got here approximately, i'm damned happy my chum had his gun. A handgun would be an clever self-protection gadget whether that's in no way fired.

Answer 5

hi,
this question will get people the thinking. i think that if everyone had the right to carry a gun then the population if America wil quickly diminish. there would be mas-mayhem all over the country. people would be shot for just looking at someone the wrong way,or for voicing there opinions on something,or for just being who they are, and yes even the race card would come into play here. just think about it for a minute for get about every thing that happen in the pass few days. what if everyone carried a gun at that moment Mr.Imus might have been shot coming home from work that very night. or those girls blacks and the two whites might have been shot for defending themselves or for being on a team of black girls. i know they are two different things but just think about it for a few minutes.

Answer 6

No, I don't think your argument makes sense. Your law would assume that everyone in the country possesses the intelligence to actually use a gun responsibly; this logic also assumes that everyone would have the ability to pull the trigger if they had to.

It's one thing to say you could pull the trigger if you had to, and quite another to actually do it. Additionally, if everyone had a gun, I think that would make the streets in America a battle-zone. Much like the wild west, you would have people pulling out guns every time they felt scared or threatened.

In short you would have total anarchy. What good would having police be, if everyone took matters into their own hand. So, no I think your logic is seriously flawed.

Answer 7

No. Violence breeds violence. Their would be so much gun crime it would be uncontrollable.
Just imagine your walking down the street and you get mugged, only this person doesn't steal your wallet or mobile phone instead he grabs your gun.
some people are disqualified from driving as they are a danger to people, but they still drive against the law. Some people don't listen to the law and have their own law. This is when things become dangerous for other Innocent people, and their family's. NO-ONE should carry a gun except the police, as they are qualified and taught when, and how to use it PROPERLY.

Answer 8

No, it doesn't make sense.

Don't try to solve a complex problem with a pre-school level solution.

We have some of the highest gun ownership levels of any civilized nation, and some of the least restrictive rules. We're also one of the most violent, particularly when it comes to gun violence.

I'm not saying that guns are solely to blame, and I'm not making the argument that they are mainly to blame, but I'd say those facts do defy the idea that more guns are the solution.

Answer 9

I think there should be mandatory gun training for everyone instead of mandatory military service. Yearly refresher courses similar to those for law enforcement officials would be required as well to ensure competency. Guns would be kept in armories around stores and campuses. They could be unlocked much like fire extinguishers and fire hoses for use in an emergency. This would provide a useful homeland defense via a ready militia made up of nearly everyone.

Answer 10

The argument makes perfect sense, the only people I would ban from carrying a gun is people that have been convicted of a crime. I also would make the age for carrying a gun 21 years of age. I would also make it against the law to carry a gun while you are drunk. Sort of like DUI.