Gun Control?

Question

would like to hear our thoughts good or bad. Keeping in mind our Second Amendment Rights. The Right of The People To Bear Arms will not be infringed. A "If you give up a freedom for security, Than you deserve niether freedom or security".

Answer 1

I believe that the second amendment was meant to be an almost absolute right. Although I would say that in the modern era I think it's safe to say that our founding fathers would not have opposed some level of control,as long as that control was not designed to keep people from exercising their rights.

It is clearly within the rights of a society to limit certain rights for people,if those people would endanger unnecessarily those around them. So limiting or eliminating the rights to keep and bear arms for say violent felons or mentally ill people is sensible,and I would say constitutional. However most on the gun control side aren't interested in that,they are interested in confiscation,and outlawing of all civilian ownership of firearms. They are being led by people who have at a minimum suspect motives,but they don't see that because they are being led like sheep.

Other than rational controls,which could include things like concealed carry permits,bacround checks etc,there should be no infringement on the 2nd amendment. The fact that states exist,like New York,that deny the rights of their citizens to defend their lives and safety,essentially handing their people over to the will of their criminal element is repulsive and an embarrassment.

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Answer 2

These days there are many armaments (arms) that the common citizen cannot possess. Nuclear weapons, nerve gas, ICBMs, rocket launchers, etc. The second amendment obviously didn't mean that citizens have the right to bear ALL arms. The question is where to draw the line so that public safety is preserved but freedom is not restrained. This is a question that many disagree on.

Personally I feel that automatic/ semi-automatic weapons and handguns are more a threat to personal safety than protection against threat.

I believe only hunting rifles should be allowed and only for people who've gone through training/ licensing.

Also, all gun owners should have to buy insurance (similar to auto insurance).

Answer 3

To me real gun control is hitting a small target at 50 paces.
Anything other than that will cause ME to brake the law. I
took a rifle to school and rabbet hunted with it on my way back
home. Well that was 60 years ago. Guess I'm set in my ways.

Answer 4

Gun control is the first step all dictarorsip's impliment in their road to total control! Virtually everyone of the founding fathers and signers of the declaration of independence owned a fire arm! In fact Jefferson, the author of the first ten ammendments was a noted marksman!

Answer 5

In Europe, especially in the European Union, countries have an extremely strict gun control, and the people who have guns(or rifles) are either policemen or deer hunters. Although very few people have guns, their societies are nevertheless democracies and in overall, secure. The European people chose to confer to the police the right to intervene in an armed way, and it is the role of the police to defend and protect its citizens, and assure that everyone respects the law. In a true democratic country, secure and free, the judicial and legal systems remplace guns. If the law: "Thou shalt not kill" was respected by coherent and non-corrupt and sanctionning systems, guns are not necessary. Many citizens in the world, especially in wealthy countries live secure and free without guns. Why would Americans be incapable of living this way?

PS: owning guns will not fight terrorism, by the way.

Answer 6

I have wonderful gun control, I hit everything I point my gun at but then, I've been shooting sense I was 5 years old.

Answer 7

Gun control is a catch all phrase that has taken on too many meanings. I am for a federal permit that would allow concealed carry in virtually any place in the US. Citizens have a near-absolute right to carry.
However, I am also for background checks, registration and waiting periods. Close the gun show loopholes.

Answer 8

I always say...A gun in hand is better than a cop on the phone!
The police will never completely control drugs..and they wont guns!
Removing guns from citizens does nothing but leave us defenseless against criminals!
Remember, you cant blame a gun for killing someone, any more than blaming a pencil for writing a misspelled word!!!...Common sense people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 9

I just find it interesting that Japan, Canada, Great Britian, France, and Germany combined definitley have the population of America... but not nearly the same amount of gun related deaths. All are democracies, all have some form of gun control.

If guns made people safer... wouldn't America be the safest country in the world?

Answer 10

At this time in history, with the emerging of home grown Islamic fanatics, here in our own country, it hardly seems practical to have people like Mike Bloomberg and Richie Daley singing the praises for gun control. Their tunnel vision, designed to weaken the law abiding citizen has no merit and little creditability in a time when Americans may need to defend their families and homes, against the evils of Islam!