What makes people think gun control could work?

Question

Remember, in that yesteryear haze, when we started to try out "drug control"? How well is that working?

What makes anyone think we can succeed with guns?

Answer 1

The Right to Bear Arms
In a nation governed by the people themselves, the possession of arms to defend their nation against usurpers within and without was deemed absolutely necessary. This right was protected by the 2nd Amendment.

"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."
--Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 1824.

"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them."
--Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1796. ME 9:341

"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives a moderate exercise to the Body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind . . . Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks."
--Thomas Jefferson, Letter to his nephew Peter Carr, August 19, 1785.

"No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms (within his own lands or tenements)."
--Thomas Jefferson: Draft Virginia Constitution with (his note added), 1776. Papers, 1:353

"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
--Thomas Jefferson, quoting Cesare Beccaria in On Crimes and Punishment (1764).

Answer 2

In regards to your analogy with recreational drugs (other than tobacco or alcohol) we don't have "drug control". We have outright drug BANS. That's why they don't work, the trade and use of them just gets driven underground. If marijuana and other stuff were "controlled" in the real sense of being taxed, inspected and regulated (just like alcohol and tobacco now is), much of society's drug problem would be a thing of the past because all those violent drug dealers would be put out of business and our prisons wouldn't be overcrowded by non-violent drug offenders who were merely using drugs but not actually harming anyone else. As for guns, well, it seems that professional criminals and determined thugs with street connections will always have ways of getting weapons. Once again, outright simplistic bans just don't work. But that doesn't mean any wacko should just be allowed to walk into a store and buy a gun no-questions-asked, or that there shouldn't be SOME way of regulating who gets to own or sell firearms and how/where they may use or carry them.

Answer 3

The same rule applied with alcohol. Some bright individuals decided that it would be a good idea to ban it. And the result was, it made what would have otherwise been law abiding citizens, into bootleggers and outlaws.

The 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution grants the right of every citizen to keep and bear arms. The intention was to give the citizens the right to defend themselves, and also to keep a runaway government in check, if that were ever to occur. The liberals in this country see that as a roadblock to their total control of the U.S. government. A people free to arm themselves is a force to be reckoned with, and they don't want that. They want us to surrender our weapons, and become "subjects" just like those in Europe. Whatever the government imposes on us, we would have no recourse.

Banning individual ownership of firearms would just cause weapons, and their owners to to "underground", and there would be a flourishing black market for weapons and ammunition. More money and resources would be spent to combat the newly "illegal" firearms. I could not imagine the number of people who would be killed over this. Just look back to Prohibition, and see the casualty list in that era.

It's up to ALL law abiding Americans to stand together and oppose ANY gun control legislation. Many of the bills proposed are under the guise of "public safety" and appear to be beneficial on their face. But when you see the ultimate motives, you will find it's just one more way to deny each citizen a right granted to them by the forefathers of this country. It just cannot be allowed to happen!

Answer 4

GUN CONTROL IS A WAY TO SLOWLY DISARM THE PEOPLE AND TAKE AWAY THE 2ND AMENDMENT . IT IS THE GOAL OF THE LIBERALS TO TOTALLY DISARM AMERICA BEFORE THEY HAND THE U.S.A. OVER TO THE U.N. FOR THE ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT . AT THAT TIME THE U.N. THUGS WILL GO HOUSE TO HOUSE AND PICK UP THE LOOSE GUNS OR KILL THE PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TO GIVE THEM UP . REMEMBER THE GESTAPO OF WW2 GERMANY , THEY KILLED ANY ONE WHO DIDN'T HAND OVER THERE GUNS . BE READY TO DEFEND THIS COUNTRY WITH YOUR LIFE AND ARM UP . THE BLOODIEST WAR EVER IS COMING UP WHERE WE WILL FIGHT THE ENTIRE WORLD HERE ON AMERICAN SOIL , IT WILL COME WHEN WE REVOLT TO THE LIBERALS ( DEMOCRATS ) HAND OVER THE U.S.A. TO THE U.N. .( NO CONSERVATIVE WOULD EVER DO SUCH A UN-AMERICAN ACT ) THE U.N. HAS AN ARMY HERE IN THE COUNTRY AT THIS TIME ( HAS HAD FOR SEVERAL YEARS NOW ) A FEW YEARS BACK I WATCHED SEVERAL LONG TRAINS GO BY THAT HAD NOTHING BUT FLAT CARS WITH ARMY TRUCKS ON THEM . AS I LOOKED AT IT PASS , I THOUGHT TO MY SELF BOY HAS THINGS CHANGED IN THE ARMY I DON'T SEE A SINGLE ONE THAT LOOKS FAMILIAR . THEN I SAW A GRILL IN A TRUCK THAT HAD A 3 POINT STAR ------ MERCEDES --- THEN I REALIZED THESE WERE NOT AMERICAN ARMY , BUT U.N. ARMY . BE READY IT'S COMING AND NOT THAT FAR AWAY . BILL CLINTON SIGNED PAPER WORK TO GIVE US TO THE U.N. WHEN HE WAS IN AND HILLERY WANTS TO FINISH IT .

Answer 5

In truth, the gun control people know that it will not work. Their motive is to remove guns from the poulace and to render them helpless against a government imposed tyranny.Some of these politicos have very evil minds.

Answer 6

We can and we wont. The public would never let a gun control bill thru the congress again (brady bill??). Frankly, I thought the Brady Bill was unconstitutional, but that is my opinion. If they want my guns, they need to come get them.......that means gettting within Max Effective Range.

Answer 7

Maybe because they're thinking with the left side of their brain.

I have had access to guns since I was old enough to go hunting with my dad. Oddly enough I have never robbed a liquor store. I wonder how that happened.

Answer 8

Gun control DOES work, and I'm a living example. In just a few weeks after joining a gun club and shooting at the range, my accuracy has greatly improved in pistol, rifle and shotgun. Drug control is automatic-those who do drugs die and become non-entities in public policy.

Answer 9

The war on drugs is a sham and a drain on our resources. And, I say, more guns less crime. Criminals will always have guns, there is nothing we can do to stop that, however, as long as they aren't the only ones with guns, we still have the chance of hanging onto a peaceful society.

Answer 10

drug control is working better than just allowing drugs.
Because allowing drugs would increase the market for drugs, which would make them more accesable to more people, rather than restricting it, diswaying people from starting.
For example, more buisness is done through a drive through window, because of convience, people aren't going out to eat inside a fast food resturant as much anymore, so they are grabbing a bite to eat, and rushing off. Which means, No meals sitting down with the family.

without that drive through, maybe the person wouldn't have thought they could sleep in late, and they coul djust grab breakfast on the way to work, Instead they woul dhave to wake up early and eat breakfast, with their spouse, and perhaps children. because the idea wasn't there, in the first place.

Gun control is making it harder to purchase weapons to disway them. I know if gun control wasan't so restricted my husband would go out and buy one, just to have one, like everyone else.

But i also know my husband would shoot the first thing that moved in the night, and so would alot of people. Hes very protective, and defensive.

making harder to buy, makes it so only people who extremely want the guns will get the guns, through throughout investigations.