For those of you calling for tougher gun laws because of the virginia shootings...?

Question

How EXACTLY will that help?
Remember that in Canada, with it's VERY strict gun laws, not one but two deranged people murdered others with firearms that were not legally obtained.
Making gun ownership more difficult for law-abiding citizens will do NOTHING to deter insane or criminal people from obtaining them and will in fact, make the law-abiding, more vulnerable.
I hope you'd agree to that simple, yet irrefutable fact.

Answer 1

Gun laws are only obeyed by law-abiding citizens. They would strip the public from ability to defend themselves, and leave the criminals with Carte Blanche. Guns are not allowed in Schools and other places, and that is where these killings take place. No killer in his right mind is going to shoot in a place where there are guns. That MF at Virginia Tech could have been stopped with a well placed bullet to the head. The very law to so-call keep students safe got them killed.

Answer 2

I completely agree with you. Stricter gun laws would not have prevented the killer in the VT tragedy from acquiring a weapon. If he was determined enough to actually perpetrate this heinous crime, he would have found a way to purchase one on the black market.

Guns should be widely available to all law-abiding citizens for the purpose of self-defense. There's no greater weapon and no better deterrent to crime. It's ridiculous to think that banning firearms would make them less available to those who are determined to acquire one and use it to commit a crime. If that were the case, then there would be no illegal narcotics in this country. They're completely illegal and billions of dollars are spent on fighting them. Yet they're readily available to a person determined enough to get them.

Put a gun into every household in America and train the family living there to use it safely and crime would plummet. Criminals would be so much less likely to enter a home to rob or hurt people if there was a high likelihood of the people living there being able to defend themselves.

Answer 3

You're probably never going to get a 100% perfect situation, where nobody will be able to acquire a gun for whatever reason. If stricter gun laws were introduced though, and it made it more difficult for just one person to get their hands on a weapon, given time, they may think twice about taking that one step further. Wouldn't it be worth the sacrifice? The rules in that particular state are far too lenient for such a dangerous weapon, if nothing is done then nothing has the chance to change.

Answer 4

Precisely. In Montreal, only one person was killed after magazines were limited and semi-assault riffles banned outright for civilian use.
Very few people want a complete ban. What we're talking about is more thorough, and independent background checks, more accountability from gun manufacturers as to where the guns find themselves (If we can impose that kind of things on cigarette-makers, surely gun manufacturers can be held responsible for "stolen" crates.), a restriction on high powered weapons with no legitimate civilian use, that kind of thing.
Canada, Japan and Europe all have similar measures. Their gun violence is only a fraction of that of the U.S. The case of Switzerland does not hold: Switzerland is a society where all citizens are expected to partake in the militia; they weed out people who are not mentally fit for this duty.
According to some of the logic I've heard, private citizens should be able to have nuclear bombs and SAM launchers if they can afford them. The gun laws in this county are archaic. The Queen of England has no intention to come over and demand back taxes, at least as far as I know.

Answer 5

"look monkey boy coward french guy." Why are you attacking the guy who published the question??? My respond to this question isn't any - US gun rules are no longer designed to kill each physique so as that they do no longer look to be responsible. The gunman is responsible. What could be examined nonetheless is that this entire fascination with weapons in US prevalent custom. it form of appears like shootings like this shop reoccuring. Why do issues like this tend to no longer take place in Europe? some people blame video games yet i do no longer purchase that siince German and British and Dutch teenages play the same violent video games. it form of feels to have some thing to do with the underlying custom. the U. S. in line with capita very own the main weapons interior the wolld and have the main shootings (different than for warzones like Iraq and Afghanistan). i'm constantly fascinated interior the reality that gun-administration lobbists interior the States constantly use Canada as an occasion of how gun administration works - Michael Moore in specific. They constantly fail to point some information.....Canada is 2d at the back of the U. S. in gun possession in line with capita and in spite of the reality that there are way much less gun-appropriate murders, there nonetheless has traditionally been a concern with shootings in school. The Quebecois custom in specific seems to show this. Australia has additionally had a concern with mass-shootings. perchance its some thing to do with the Anglo frontier history those international locations proportion. Its a authentic shame while issues like this take place

Answer 6

These people that cry "we need tougher gun laws" are so clueless. We have tough gun laws in the country. We do a back ground checks on all legally purchased guns. Most states have waiting periods. There isn't anything else that will stop these types of tragedies. Virginia is said to have some of the laxer laws, but funny thing is, it is also one of the states that have low gun related crimes.

Those clueless saying we need regulation of handgun and automatic guns know jack. All sales are regulated already. Automatic weapons are a non issue. Only 2 crimes have ever been committed with legally obtained fully auto weapons. Autos are highly regulated.

Answer 7

Yes, two people went on rampages in Canada in 17 years. And how many have gone on rampages in the USA (with its non-existent gun control) in the same time frame?

How many deaths from guns in the US every year compared to other countries that have stricter gun laws?

But maybe you're right; perhaps making gun ownership more difficult won't deter so-called maniacs. So, what does that say about America? That it's full of "insane or criminal" people? Maybe it's Americans who need to be controlled

Answer 8

When terrorists attack they use homemade explosive devices and vehicles. It's only deranged individuals that use guns, and since it's just as easy to convert a .22 rifle to fully automatic as it is to buy a handgun, why do people want to ban handguns?
I understand handguns cause death, but taking away handguns won't take away rifles, it will just open the door for rifles to be taken away, post facto taking away our right to keep and bear arms. There have been deranged individuals using rifles, handguns, bombs, planes, cars, and just about anything you can think of to commit mass murder, that doesn't mean that taking all those things away will stop people from being killed. Everything can be converted to a weapon that can kill many people, you can't take away that knowledge, but you can help return our freedoms so we don't feel so trapped. You can help by fighting for our rights so we no longer feel terrorized by our own government and the outside world. If you are so worried about how one simple choice causes death for many many innocent people, try going after the corporations that pollute the water table and soil giving people cancer. If you don't have a gun in mountainous country you can be killed by a bear or large cat like a mountain lion. Guns are still used for defense, just because some people take something and kill others with it doesn't mean it should be taken away. Will you take away all cars because a woman runs over her husband repeatedly?
Get real, guns don't kill people, an inadequate social system does. We are feeling more and more pressure with our rights being taken away, with our government terrorizing it's citizens, and our media enforcing the terror of the world by dwelling on it. If you want to fix it, try electing a government official who isn't corrupt. Oh I forgot, you can't because the electoral college elects presidents, not our votes. And since it's a bi-partisan system the president and vice president get picked by their buddies, so they've been kissing but all the way up the food chain and corrupted themselves long before they pretended you would have the right to vote for them.

Yes, guns were illegal on the campus, guns aren't illegal in the rest of the world, so people could sneak across the border and kill many innocent Americans alot easier than building a bomb. If Americans are allowed to carry guns, people are less likely to walk around with a gun trying to shoot people. I like the wikipedia article about the law school shooting, wouldn't you rather have only had 2 people die than 32 people because the students could carry guns and shoot back? Better yet, had the person who died first had a gun they could have stopped it by killing the shooter first.

But you can choose to be a sheep, only the law abiding citizens would listen to that law, criminals already acquire guns illegally, arms are shipped across Americas border every day, and I'm pretty sure you can't convince all of South America, Cuba, and the rest of the world to give up their guns.
*sheep bleating*:baaaa aaaaaa aaaa

Answer 9

There have been several incidents of guns used
to kill and Virginia Tech is just a drop in the buc-
ket. Not only tougher gun laws are needed, ed-
ucation, prevention and control is also needed, but
because america is too busy trying to wipe the
nose clean in other countries they can't even wipe
their own nose clean, a lot of money is needed
to come up with preventable and controlable
programs, but these do not exist because Bush
is limited funds for such programs because he is
asking for billions to run the war in Irag and Afgan-
istan, thus leaving america and americans vun-
eralbe to such incidents, and there are many more
to come if things do not change.

Answer 10

yeah, talk the truth, if someone wanted to kill someone, stricter gun laws won't work. That person will kill that other person no matter what, either with a kitchen knife or a baseball bat. At Virginia tech, that boy would've killed the same amount or more even if gun laws were stricter. He could have blown up the school, it is so easy to make a bomb even i could do it. And before the holocaust, the Jews had their guns taken away, and guess what, 6 million died. the government will not take my guns away, because i have the right to defend myself.