Should gun control be more harshly in forced in the US?

Question

Some people say that guns hurt more then help people in homes. Others say that it is for protection and it is in the bill of rights that we have the right to bear arms. If a robber attacks u and u pull out a gun what is the robber most likely 2 do? Well if he has a gun he’ll just shoot u if he doesn’t he'll run but either way your gambling wit your life. What is your opinion?

Answer 1

My opinion is, you're absolutely right. Either way you're gambling with your life

Answer 2

I would have to go with NO we should not. If a person breaks into your home and you are unarmed, what do you think that person is going to do? Take your things and let you go? I do not think that they would. You would stand a better chance being armed. I have been robbed while I was at home in the early morning hours. Speaking from experience, when the potential robber only heard the action of a pump shot gun, he turned and ran. Be very careful with the thought of gun control, the criminals will not give theirs up. Most of the guns that they have were not bought lawfully. With the back ground checks and the waiting period, I believe that is a step in the right direction. All that needs to happen is to ensure that the person purchasing the gun, is the person that ends up with the gun. I am not sure how though. I will try to find the link of a magazine for you to read about the people that have protected them self with a gun. Alot of the stories are about the elderly defending them self and their home.

Answer 3

Private citizens protect themselves effectively thousands of times a year. You are right on one point,most of the time you pull a gun on a criminal they will just run,they aren't there to get killed they are there to steal your stuff.

I have no real problem with actual gun control,but what many call gun control is just incremental gun elimination. The idea that guns increase crime is also a myth. While we may have a higher crime rate than some,and people will give you the low numbers of people killed with guns in certain societies the vast majority of the time the numbers were no higher when those people had their gun rights. In fact some have seen an increase,crime is a societal thing,not a consequence of opportunity. To compare us to Japan for example is like comparing a rat to a blue whale. They have a completely different ethic as a society,about crime,about community responsibility and so on. I assure you if Japan had just as many guns per capita as America their crime rate would very likely be no higher.

And numbers don't always tell you everything here either,you hear gun death numbers but do you ever hear how much of that was gang crime,commited with weapons not legally owned. Guns that they would get even if firearms were completely banned. Gun laws do not stop the proliferation of guns in the criminal world,want proof ask Britain.

By many gun control advocates views they would avoid my house like the plague,yet I have never commited a crime of any type beyond a traffic violation,and I have had many guns in my home for two decades now. No one has ever accidentally been hurt,I have indeed been forced once to use a gun in self defense. Although I thankfully was not forced to pull the trigger. My son is 9 and already owns two guns of his own,he is an avid hunter and likely knows more about gun safety that 80% of the population.

We do need to reeducate alot of the gun owning public when it comes to safety,especially those who turn 18 who then go by their first SKS because it looks cool even though they have never handled a firearm in their life. I have no problem with requiring backround checks,safety education and such,but any action that I view as trying to eliminate the right,and it is a right,to own firearms will never be anything I will approve of.

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Answer 4

Although statistics show that gun(s) in a home are far more likely to be part of an accident than protecting the homeowner, I would rather own my weapons but make absolute sure they are secure.

All my weapons have two forms of security. I know that dosen't help me when I wake up to someone with an already loaded gun to my head.

With that said, I support the second amendment. I'm am FAR from ever becoming an N.R.A. member cause I dont believe that we need weapons that hold 15+ rounds and are full auto. Also because half of the money you donate to the NRA goes to gun Lobbyists and the conservative republicans (boooo!)

I dont know if I answered your question at least you get an opinion

Answer 5

The truth is that no matter how tight gun laws are, criminals will always employ illegal means to obtain them. The best solution in my opinion is to stop trying to control the types of guns that can be sold (thats proven to have no effect on crime) and enforce more strictly the safeguards already in place which prevents true criminals from legally buying them.

It has been proven that in areas where the percentage of people who legally carry weapons for self defence is high, the rate of violent crime is substantially low. Criminals in most cases only target vulnerable people. A criminal will be less willing to comit a crime against a person whom he/she feels is not vulnerable because there is a good chance that they are armed and can fight back.

Now, the concept of issuing concealed weapons permits is near perfect. Most states require that to obtain such a permit, you go through training on safety and self defense methods. Also concealing a weapon does not make the carrier a target as the criminal is unnaware that he/she is armed. The element of surprise is important when the opportune time arises IF deadly force is necessary to protect your life from a criminal.

As for DREDAY, first, no matter how long a wait you put on getting a gun, a criminal can always go to the nearest hood and pick one up for a couple of bones lickety split. Remember, they are criminals and they will always find a way around the law,
Second, Ill take my chances. A criminal can sue me if I shoot them in self defence, but at least I will be alive to sit in that court room and explain that to the jury.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

acctually robbers are stupid. in most cases when someone pulls a gun on the robber he goes off running before the first shot is fired. and what is also surprising is the fact people look at the death toll from guns but they dont look at the death toll from doctors who had accidents and killed some patients. more people die from doctors having accidents then people do from gun accidents. and i do agree with you that it should be harder to buy a gun in the US. i went to a gun show and a guy was trying to sell me a AK-47 before i said 2 words. so i agree they should make it harder to get a gun so we can atleast still have the right to bear arms but make it harder for the idiots who choose to abuse that right

Answer 8

If he is breaking in your home and has a gun, you are normally dead anyway, A weapon in your home along with other security is a great thing.

The gun control needs to be honest people with gun, and the control and prison for people who should not have guns, or have them and use them in crimes.

But you are right, if the person who is breaking in has a gun, he should go to jail maybe 20 years automaticly nothing a judge can do, then there would be less bad people with guns on the street

Answer 9

Its very simple and it has really nothing to do with government.

Pretend government doesn't exist for a minute. Pretend laws are only paper and not magical.. shouldn't be hard. ;)

You have a right to defend yourself from an attacker. Even if I told you that you did not.. you would do it anyway. If someone is going to kill you, you would fight, kick, and scream. That being said if someone can use a weapon on you.. then you also have the right to be able to use a weapon to defend yourself.

Back in the real world.. when you make a class of people who, by law, can not defend themselves.. then anyone with a firearm becomes a god and can kill at will till some government official comes to stop them.

Gun control is wrong.. its wrong to force people to be defenseless against an attacker. This is the basis for the second amendment.

Answer 10

Guns don't kill people, people kill people. You can ban all the guns you want, but that just means the bad guys will get them on the street illegally and then you have no choice whether to own a gun for protection.

I, personally, hate guns, but I don't believe in taking away one of our constitutional rights, which is the right to bear arms.

But that's just my opinion

Answer 11

Gun control has never worked. People who are not suppose to have guns just ignore that law and obtain guns anyway