Opinions on gun control laws?

Question

What are some of the pros and cons of current gun control laws?

What can we do to improve them for the safety of citizens?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

The Con is that a criminal will always be able to get a gun, they don’t care if there is a ban on guns or not, they are already breaking the law. It’s funny but most criminals are FOR gun control it makes their job safer and easier.


What can we do to improve them for the safety of citizens?

That’s easy, pass an amendment the REQUIRES the POLICE to come to your aid. As it stands right now according to the Supreme Court the police are under NO obligation to come to your aid or to even stop a crime. You just have to look to LA for that. The news show tape of police driving by while shops were looted, people robbed, beaten, and who know what else.

After they passed gun control in Australia, a new crime emerged it was call home invasion. Basically a criminal or group of criminals would break into a house and rob the owners.

It hasn’t have effect on murder rate

http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/ECFAF68AB75AE9E3CA256DEA00053A5A

Answer 2

The old tired rhetoric that pertinent gun laws are already in place and it is an enforcement issue doesn't ring quite true. I think there should be more controls on owning a gun. Everybody is certainly entitled to own a gun for self protection, but for the intentional killing of living things, including game, to my mind is arrogant and cruel inasmuch as we wear species blinders. It is no scientific or biological mystery that a deer, for example, feels pain. Why would anybody cause pain in another living thing, for the "fun" of it? I know this is not a popular point of view, but I have yet to hear a good reason why killing for sport is morally just. I know some distant relations in Alabama that actually do hunt deer for the venison, so I suppose that's a valid justification. But really, that is the exception, not the rule. If those kinds of firearms could be prohibited, it would at least put a small dent in the proliferation of deadly weapons on the market. As for owning a handgun for protection or self-defense, the statistic irony is that those in-home guns mostly end up being used to settle a domestic dispute. There is no good answer to this question. If some people were allowed to carry a concealed weaon at Virginia Tech, the shooter would not have been as effective as he was. The question then becomes, WHO is entitled to carry a concealed weapon. My best answer is that there might be a type of person that is qualified to walk around armed. Just not everybody.

Answer 3

We don't need gun control.. we need people control (at least that's what the little voices in my head keep saying - grin).

All the safety concerns in the world can be applied to a gun, but in the end.. it is the state of mind or physical well being of the individual that has it in his/her hand that makes or breaks the situation.

Try writing a fictional situation about a nut with a gun.
Now replace the word gun with slingshot or automobile...

the danger prob. didn't change that much, did it?


I'm all for safe handling of guns. I raised three daughters to respect the weapon that I carried when I was a sheriff's deputy, and I am very proud that they did. I have seen others that did not have that respect and were hurt or caused hurt and pain because of it, but, having said that, I have a firm belief that the gun itself was not the reason for any of those deaths or injuries...it was the person that pulled the trigger.

Answer 4

Are you writing an essay : )

I am Australian and we are not allowed to own a gun there. I have been living in the US for a while now and I am absolutely, completely shocked that normal people can own guns, even after having a check done etc. I don't know how this is seen as normal! Why do everyday people need guns? In Australia, only police and farmers are allowed to own guns. The farmers need them to kill animals when they are extremely sick. Think about this whole situation from someone outside the US. It is ridiculous. The law should be that no one can own guns without a legitimate purpose, such as a soldier, police officer etc.

Answer 5

My thought on gun control is this. I think guns should be allowed following proper classes on use and some psychological tests. The way I feel about it, the majority of people abusing guns are criminals. The criminals will have the guns whether they are illegal or not. The only people we're keeping guns from is the law-abiding citizens who need them to protect themselves.
Guns don't kill people-PEOPLE kill people.

Answer 6

I live in Australia and years ago we had a moratorium on guns .Gun ownership was outlawed.There was amnesty where people could hand in in their weapons.As aresult I think we have less murder sure they still happen but not like America.Only people in the armed forces and the police need to own guns.There is no need for ordinary people to own guns.Sometimes they are not locked away securely either and cause accidents and people particularly farmers are at risk of suicide.They have access to rifles.Guns should be outlawed forthwith.

Answer 7

i think that making gun control laws stricter will not do much. if a criminal wants to shoot somebody or wants a gun that bad, they will find it. laws only effect law abiding citizens, and theres plenty of people who break them no matter what the punishment.
personally, making gun control laws stricter will only make things worse and more people get in trouble.

Answer 8

If Virginia Tech allowed any student to carry a gun, it might have not become the big deal it is because the students could have been able to protect themselves.

Answer 9

i think they should have a age limit or something, or they can just not make guns anymore, because whats the point of war and killing anyway?!?!?

Answer 10

i totally agree with the 1st person