what's your opinion on guns?

Question

are you for or against??

Personally, i think they do more killings than protection.

I mean just look at the VT massacre...he just randomly got out and got a gun.

Answer 1

This debate comes out after every campus shooting. I am all for the public arming themselves. But they should do it responsibly. There is not one gun law that would have prevented Mondays tragedy. That guy was determined to kill, no matter what he had to use for a weapon. It's people like him that make me want to have a gun for my protection.

Answer 2

He did not 'randomly go out and get a gun'. He bought 1 gun in early March, and another in April (Virginia apparently has a 1 gun a month law). The campus gun ban is responsible for at least 20 deaths. If anyone in the engineering building was armed, they would have stopped the massacre MUCH sooner. The millions of crimes prevented by armed citizens that don't fire a shot never make the news, but they happen EVERY day. Working my way from the bottom of your STATEMENT (not a question) to the top, You have already figured out my opinion of guns.

Answer 3

personally i believe that guns do no more killing than they do protecting. you might think differently if you have even been in a situation where an intruder broke into your home and you were alone and without any kind of protection against them. i do believe however that regardless of whether owning guns is legal or not that people will get them if they truly want them by any means necessary. look at drugs-- they are illegal but you can walk around and find them anywhere you want. so we aren't really preventing the sale of them really. i can randomly obtain drugs, a gun, knife, anything i want by simply asking around for an hour or two. the guy at VT went through the screening process just as the thousands before him who own them and never shot anyone, but he decided to do something stupid and awful to all those people. so i guess the question lies in whether by taking anything away, if we are really preventing the sale of it at all-- which really we aren't.

Answer 4

I think responsible people should get a conceal to carry license and carry all the time. Like one of those ankle holsters. I mean if at least 1 kid in every class was packing heat, Cho woulda been jacked up.

The response of the school was bad too, I think. I mean 2 hours passed before his second strike!?! SWAT shoulda been all over that in like 20 minutes of the first call.

But that's neither here nor there. We can't ban guns, because then only police and criminals would have them, and that would just embolden the criminals. Then we'd be really screwed!

Answer 5

A gun is just a mechanical device. It depends on what the person who has it chooses to do with it.

A lot of times people use guns to defend themselves without having to pull the trigger. They just pull out the gun and point it at the criminal. Then the criminal runs away. The problem is people don't hear about incidents like that, so naturally everyone assumes guns are more often used in crimes than in self-defense.

Answer 6

ok here is my opinion. if you outlaw guns, then only outlaws will have guns. in Arizona you can have carry pistols everywhere you go, if every state was like that, then there would be less crime becuase there is less harmless people out there. if one person had a gun at VT, cho would have been stopped alot earlier and would save many lives. if someone knew they had a gun then they would be less likely to shoot that person. understand? trust me.

Answer 7

Private citizens disrupt criminal activities more often than the police do. Here are examples of people who were very GLAD to be armed:

http://www.nrapublications.org/armed%20citizen/index.asp

EDIT: Jeffrey, why do the cops need guns, if citizens don't?
Do criminals attack cops? It's been my understanding that criminals attack civilians, more than they do cops. Shouldn't those being attacked, be the ones with the guns?

The cops were armed to the teeth, while the attacks were in progress at VA Tech. The victims weren't armed at all. Your plan, as you've outlined it, failed miserably.

I don't understand your reasoning.

Answer 8

Killing have been going on since Cain killed Abel in Biblical times, if there were no more guns, anything else which can be used to kill will be employed. Put responsibilty where it rightfully belongs, on the killer and criminal, not on inanimate onjects. Criminals can care less about laws. It only affects those who obeys them.

Answer 9

guns are used many more times to thwart crime than they are used in the commission of one. While the issue of gun control can be very emotional, it does not stand up to logic. Any cop will tell you that gun control has not, and will not work.

Answer 10

Guns are the real Equal Rights Amendment for women.