Should Firearms be used for hunting only?

Question

Well what do you think let us all know.

Answer 1

Target practice would be a good use. Protection of ones family and property is another good use. (defensive only)

If used for hunting, however, keep it out of the hands of Dick Cheney.

Answer 2

No. Why should they be restricted to that use only? There are many other reasons to own a gun, most of them for either hunting or the sport of competition shooting.

You know, similar to what they do in the olympics with archery, pistols and rifles? International competition? That sort of stuff.

And lastly, there is a fact in this world regarding guns. They exist.

There is a related fact. Criminals and future criminals (like the guy that killed the V-Tech students and faculty) own guns. The average citizen has a right to defend their own lives and property. That is a constitutional right beyond the right to keep and bear arms.

Will people kill other people using guns? You bet. Always have and always will, unless a better method is found that works as well.

You can't just wave a magic wand and turn everyone into automatons that their very thoughts are controlled for them. People are free. They are free to kill another human being and that freedom has NOTHING to do with guns.

If you are a supporter of gun control, please explain for me how you will disarm criminals and future criminals so that the average citizen is ABSOLUTELY secure that NO ONE will EVER be able to use a gun to either rob them or kill them?

Until you can demonstrate you have created a society like that, the gun controll debate is irrelevant. As long as there are those in the world that would impose their will on free people against their will, people should be able to defend themselves up to and including using a gun to disable or kill the criminal.

Deal with the REAL propblem. Criminality. Which liberals have done such a fine job at so far, I sure have a lot of confidence that they can create a society that is devoid of that element.

You aren't afraid of the criminal with a gun. You are deathly afraid of free and indipendent law abiding citizens that have guns and are willing to defend their freedom and liberty by using one. THAT is what you fear and that is what you want to legislate away.

Admit it.

Answer 3

40,000 people die in car accidents every year, many alcohol related. Should alcohol be for medicine only? Ask your grandparents how that worked out in the 30s.

Firearms are just tools, like cars, computers, hammers, etc. They are not good or evil, the people that use them are.

Here's an idea, instead of banning or limiting inanimate objects, lets ban evil people. What sense does it make to take away a tool from 99 people that use it for good just because 1 person uses it for evil?

Answer 4

No.

If I chose to defend myself, or my household with a firearm, that is my business, not yours.


"If the people who "threaten" you didn't have a gun, you wouldn't need one either. I dare someone to say that doesn't make sense. " - MARTY

To this I say:
While it makes sense, it is impractical, and only empowers those who are going to break the law, and turns those who are close adherents of the 2nd Amendment into criminals. Me amongst them. You pass a law outlawing weapons, I will be on the front line of the citizen's revolt that immediately follows.

Answer 5

Primarily they should be used to fill the role of every humans' right to adequately defend oneself...

Secondarily and only as an extended privilege for hunting (ie hunting can and should be regulated due to fluctuations in game populations)

Answer 6

Hunting and range/target shooting should be the primary uses for a firearm. They should be used for self defense only if the attacker is directly threatening your well-being.

Answer 7

NO! #1 for self defense of my family and others in danger is my reason to be armed.Ban guns and we will end up like the working English and Aussie's are now.Your gun-grabbing politic ians and talking heads in the media have all the protection they can afford. Take my guns from my cold dead hands,if you can!

Answer 8

I think the original intentions for uses of firearms granted by the 2nd amendment are good the way they are. However I think restrictions on the manufacturers of firearms and better tracking and shipping oversights are needed.

Gun shops should possibly be removed from areas of concentrated crime.

These are just ideas.

Answer 9

If they can be kept out of the wrong hands, then there wouldn't be a problem with the right to bear arms. I have a right to defend myself if someone came into my house in the middle of the night, so that privelage should not be taken away from me because of some bad people. The guns should just be harder to get.

Answer 10

They are a tool and came be used for many things, but they can't think or do for themselves so it is always up to the demeanor of the person using the tool. we need to take responsibility for our actions, things like this will always happen, if he didn't have a gun he would have found something else, we can't ban everything. and when things get banned people still get them, you just now have to deal with a criminal element and pay more to get them, just look at how well our war on drugs in going!