Do we need better gun laws?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070619/ap_on_re_us/virginia_tech_mental_health

Answer 1

More and more gun laws are not going to be respected or obeyed by criminals

Answer 2

Look at what the genius above me wrote...

"While the ability to bear arm is constitutional and very important to this nation's past and present, there are way too many people with guns, many of them do not need to have any gun."

Need? Screw you. I can't choose to have one? My right to bear arms is valid only if I have a reason you see fit.

Bue YES, we do need better gun laws. And by better, I'm talking like the majority of the crowd here. Better means streamlined, and LESS restrictions.

Answer 3

No guns = No killings? U scare me, being that dim witted. Yes, we need better gun laws, such as concealed carry permits in all states, an longer jail terms for those who use guns in the commission of a crime. Should we ban cars? More people die in car accidents annually than from guns, so why not? Because, like guns, cars dont kill people, certain people using and misusing them do. Keep guns availble to those who want them legally.

Answer 4

No. We need better laws that prohibit people with mental illnesses to purchase gun(s).

Answer 5

Yes - if you mean less restrictive gun laws

Answer 6

No, our gun laws are fine. Most of Europe has been turned into sheep, afraid of guns and the responsibility that goes along with it.
Not so in rural USA!

Answer 7

Yes.

While the ability to bear arm is constitutional and very important to this nation's past and present, there are way too many people with guns, many of them do not need to have any gun.

Every year, thousands of people die from gun injury, either accidental or intentional. Many of the well known cases in this country, from Columbine to Stockton to the latest at Virginia Tech, as well as various murders and crimes, involved guns that are inappropriately used. In the case of Virginia Tech, the very lax gun control law allowed the what-would-be mass murderer to obtain the weapons and ammos that he needed. Could he have gotten it other way? Sure. However, it would certainly be more troublesome for him to obtain the weapons he needed, and that may be the time difference to either get the help he needed or arrest him.

While it is true that hunters need guns, property owners with valuables need guns, professionals of law and order needed their own guns, and various other people needed guns, there is no need of selling gun to people like a college student with mental history. While right to bear arm and concealed arm deters some crime, having a huge number of the population owning weapons do not. That just allows those who are not properly trained or who are not stable mentally to use and abuse it.

Better gun control laws do not prohibit gun ownership by private citizens. They would allow a selection of better educated gun owners and a safer society.

Answer 8

20,000 laws not enough?? Criminals are criminals because they break the law. So, by passing law 20,0001 is going to make the criminal think that they shouldn't break another law? It doesn't work.

Answer 9

Yes, we need better gun laws.

By 'better,' of course, I mean fewer and less restrictive laws...

Answer 10

yess !! more in big cities. like Toronto. also make more strong laws.also for people that are immgrants and commite serious crimes. to be deported and never entry to Canada again. is time to clean this society !!!!!!! also stop those that came from EEUU. and bring arms with them. we need a mayor secure bords.