2007-04-17 19:55:02 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Hard question! If you take guns away from law abiding citizens, you leave them open to for the criminals to prey on....The criminals aren't giving up their guns.
2007-04-17 21:27:57 · answer #1 · answered by nnshking 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No because the ones that are going to do these things are most likely going to get there guns on the street so therefore it wouldn't help and the background checks the other person was talking about is BS anyway. Say when you were young you did something stupid as allot of young people do I don't think when they are a mature adult they shouldn't have the right to have gun. I mean lets face it if we all got caught every time we did something wrong NONE of us would be allowed to have a gun and that includes our law enforcement officers as well as Joe public.
2007-04-18 00:19:56 · answer #2 · answered by nobody special 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, it hasn't worked in the UK, Canada, Australia, etc...
To Arrogant...
Crime did not fall in England after handguns were banned in 1997. Quite the contrary, crime rose sharply. In May, the British government reported that gun crime in England and Wales nearly doubled in the last four years. Serious violent crime rates from 1997 to 2002 averaged 29% higher than 1996; robbery was 24% higher; murders 27% higher. Before the law, armed robberies had fallen by 50% from 1993 to 1997, but as soon as handguns were banned, the armed robbery rate shot back up, almost back to their 1993 levels. The violent crime rate in England is now double that in the United States.
Gee, I wonder why we never hear about these stats?
2007-04-17 23:22:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. People who are going to commit crimes with guns will get the guns, either legally or illegally. Look at Britain- total gun control and loads of gun crime. Banning guns to prevent crime makes about as much sense as the Federal act of 1958 that banned switchblades, in the belief that if switchblades were banned, juvenile delinquency would disappear.
Arrogant Bastard- I'm just going on the word of a friend of mine who is from Birmingham, he said he doesn't go into Nottingham because gun crime is so bad, worse than London even.
2007-04-17 19:59:06 · answer #4 · answered by Marc B. 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yes if people do not have access to guns then they cannot use them against each other.
It is true that countries like australia do still have gun problems but not 30 000 deaths per year.
These problem stem from organised crime so that is a different issue.
I know of a situation that was blown out of control because a normal person when stupid over a girl and managed to get their hands on a rifle he ended up dead.
People in a state of desperation do stupid things like shooting someone or at least threatening people, which can get them shot.
If there was stricter gun control these people would not have access to these weapons and therefore would not be able to do as much harm.
2007-04-17 21:20:33 · answer #5 · answered by mulberryjames 1 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Well, let's see. Everything the latest gunman in Virgina did was already illegal under current gun control laws, so how will more laws help? The problem with the whole gun control thing is that the murders don't follow the laws...
2007-04-17 20:03:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Most definitely, when taken in the context of being able to hit what you are aiming at.This is the only kind of gun control that WILL work.
2007-04-18 00:47:40 · answer #7 · answered by WC 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No I don't think we need more laws, most shootings in the past were carried out with illegal firearms, what good would banning do there, this guy was 3 bricks shy a load, maybe we should ban just the crazy ones, maybe another Federally funded study????
2007-04-17 20:09:14 · answer #8 · answered by Jim 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No. I do think we need more control of criminals, though, and the first step is to punish them.
Rehabilitation is not up to the state--it is the choice of the criminal. If they want to be rehabilitated help 'em. Otherwise keep 'em locked up as long as possible.
2007-04-17 20:14:40 · answer #9 · answered by Warren D 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes...better training, discipline and accuracy usually is best medicine for cranial rectitus of the masses.
2007-04-17 20:21:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋