How many new gun laws have to be made before...?

Question

our goverment realizes that the only people who benefit from them are the people like the V-Tech shooter who prey on unarmed people?

4 Shades- It's not rocket scence; law abiding people wouldn't dare bring a gun into a gun-free zone but outlaws don't care and so because they disobey the law by arming themselves they have the upper hand against all the unarmed people.

Answer 1

we have 22K gun laws alreadt, we dont need anymore

Answer 2

Why would a law abiding citizen not want guns to stay out of the hands of sick and irresponsible people.

Tax guns(say $100 per year per gun). Take the funds and make police enforce effective checks. A new gun permit would go to the police first. They would interview every potential gun owner. They potential new gun owner would need to produce a certification from a medical professional stating they are mentally healthy. They would need to re-certify this for every weapon DUI, domestic violence, asayult arrest the police get the guns untill they re-certify with mediucal approval. People have mental issues and they pop up. Honest citizen one day, unstable person the next, lets get more responsible. I own guns and want other gun owners to take a tougher stand to make sure everyone stays as safe as possible.

Answer 3

Exactly
As the nation debates whether more guns or fewer can prevent tragedies like the Virginia Tech Massacre, a notable anniversary passed last month in a Georgia town that witnessed a dramatic plunge in crime and violence after mandating residents to own firearms.

In March 1982, 25 years ago, the small town of Kennesaw – responding to a handgun ban in Morton Grove, Ill. – unanimously passed an ordinance requiring each head of household to own and maintain a gun. Since then, despite dire predictions of "Wild West" showdowns and increased violence and accidents, not a single resident has been involved in a fatal shooting – as a victim, attacker or defender.

The crime rate initially plummeted for several years after the passage of the ordinance, with the 2005 per capita crime rate actually significantly lower than it was in 1981, the year before passage of the law.

Prior to enactment of the law, Kennesaw had a population of just 5,242 but a crime rate significantly higher (4,332 per 100,000) than the national average (3,899 per 100,000). The latest statistics available – for the year 2005 – show the rate at 2,027 per 100,000. Meanwhile, the population has skyrocketed to 28,189.
By comparison, the population of Morton Grove, the first city in Illinois to adopt a gun ban for anyone other than police officers, has actually dropped slightly and stands at 22,202, according to 2005 statistics. More significantly, perhaps, the city's crime rate increased by 15.7 percent immediately after the gun ban, even though the overall crime rate in Cook County rose only 3 percent. Today, by comparison, the township's crime rate stands at 2,268 per 100,000.

Answer 4

Gun control has been an issue for years. What the most of the masses don't know is that if guns are outlawed ~ only outlaws will have guns. Gun control is for law abiding citizens and you know what? We don't need it. We need a law to keep guns out of the criminals hands.

Answer 5

George D is exactly right. And Kennesaw, Ga doesn't ever have to enforce the 'must own' law. The fact they encourage residents to maintain a gun is enough.

Heinz M give gun laws too much credit. Why only repeal 90%?

Answer 6

100% correct. It's like the old laws that haven't been taken off the dockets. The rule of thumb, in Marietta Georgia it's against the law to open your umbrella on the sidewalk etc., etc.

People need to get a grip. I carried a gun all through college and there wasn't a single mishap.

Answer 7

Every country that has legislated strong gun control laws has had an increase of violent crime, including an increase in crimes in which guns were used by criminals who ignored the gun control laws and purchased firearms on the black market.

There are two reasons for the rise in violent crime rates since the advent of gun control. Partly it's as you might expect: gun control laws strip guns only from people who obey them. They don't take guns away from criminals. The effect of gun control is to shift the balance of firepower sharply to the criminal's favor, and the criminal consequently becomes more avid and bold in his depredations.

"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." Thomas Jefferson, Commonplace Book, 1775.

The other part of the problem is the racial darkening of the U.S. population. It is a statistically provable fact (see the links below) that non-Whites, except certain Asian groups, commit violent and property crimes more frequently than Whites do. Blacks have a per capita rate for murder perpetration that is nearly ten times higher than that for Whites. For Latinos, the ratio is three times higher. Since the United States has been deluged with Blacks and Mexicans, a rise in the murder rate is to be expected.

And occasionally an Asian goes murderously berserk, even though this behavior isn't as common among Asians as it is among Blacks and Mestizos. Cho isn't the only Asian mass murderer of the recent past. Another was Chai Vang, who murdered several people in a woods in Wisconsin.

By the way, you can add Australia to the list of countries which have had increases in violent crimes since a ban on guns was legally imposed on lawful citizens. It seems likely that there are ulterior political motives for these gun-bans, since no amount of evidence showing the detrimental effect of gun control laws will ordinarily persuade a legislative body to repeal them.

Answer 8

The million dollar question. Remember it is the compassion crowd are the ones who argued that it not fair an air Marshall has a gun on a plane, what if he had a bad day and went on a shooting spree on the plane ? ZERO GUN FREE ZONE on campus, where military student go.

Answer 9

Absolutely true...If the staff or students were armed, this would not have happened. We have over 3000 gun laws in effect now...do they really think another will do any good? Gun laws only affect the good guys..Bad guys dont abide by laws..why do you think we call them bad guys.....

So difficult for some people to grasp such a simple concept.

Answer 10

How do people 'benefit' from them? All it does is punish those who actually follow the gun laws. I would like to see applications to purchase firearms include a mandatory mental health background check, which currently is prohibited by the HIPPA laws. We check to ensure no criminal history, why not check to ensure no mental health history? Won't catch all the whackos, but could have prevented the VT tragedy.

Answer 11

yeah guns should be legal
hey lets legalize murder so we can kill everyone before they kill us

its called an analogy

how about replacing gun ownership with an increased police presence? If gun owners are really keen on protecting people, they wouldn't mind going through training, evaluations and then volunteering to serve and protect!