the government was able to integrate the buses and schools. Sadly, only the government can enforce gun control. Washington will never be safe till we have nation-wide gun control. It you want something else to read, click here -
http://neahin.org/programs/schoolsafety/gunsafety/statistics.htm
2007-09-23 03:46:16 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
I've definitely seen hysterical statements on the issue, all from the gun control side. How you got to the point of equating protection of civil rights with suppression of civil rights must have involved some interesting mental gymnastics. It would serve you well to look into the racist roots of gun control in this country, the legal disarming of former slaves in order to keep them powerless and subservient to their former masters.
2007-09-23 04:46:17 · answer #1 · answered by gunplumber_462 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think if you were to spend some time actually looking at statistics and researching these things you'd see that poverty levels and the number of people per square mile tend to cause more crime than guns. I think the answer to America's problem of violence is education, not gun control. I'd rather not live in a totalitarian state. I think you and all your like minded friends ought to watch the movie "V for Vendetta". Its the perfect example of why you shouldn't trade your freedoms for safety in the face of danger.
Benjamin Franklin said: "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
I hope you take the time to read this quote and think about what all it might mean. The reason we have guns is to discourage and possibly fight if neccesary, a tyrannical government. If it ever comes to this then I think you will be found woefully underprepared if not willing to submit to whatever America's government could become. If it ever comes to that then I and your more responsible fellow citizens will be prepared to deal with it and perhaps you will see the error of your ways.
PS if your avatar is correct and you are African American then I find your question especially ironic. The roots of many of America's current gun control laws stem from Jim Crow laws designed to keep freed slaves down.
2007-09-23 21:37:53 · answer #2 · answered by Matt G 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think gun control is a different matter. I am an Alaska girl, so don't take my gun away! You know, my son is 14, but he was 11 when he got his first gun. We lived along a river where the salmon swim upstream, so it was not uncommon to see a brown bear (grizzly) or a black bear. The black bears are scardy cats, but the brown bears are huge and ferocious, and they would see my son or me as a snack.
He had a pretty powerful gun, you need one to take a bear down. I had one and he had one, and we'd carry both of them when we were fishing or hiking around the house. He had classes on the use of firearms, and we practiced gun safety in the home.
Most of the kids in Alaska either have their own firearms or they have access to them, but strangely enough, there is very little gun violence. One reason is probably because everyone thinks that everyone else has a gun, so it keeps the peace.
The gun violence that you speak of happens when people illegally acquire guns. Taking guns from law abiding citizens only robs them of their protection from people who will obtain them illegally anyway.
What you need in Washington is to break up ghettos so that people who live in poverty learn that there is a better way to live than to resort to a life of crime. You need a real education system that is designed to teach children in such a way that they will be successful when they grow older, and tutoring and mentoring peograms to keep kids focused on school and achievement. As well as family training and support programs to reduce the number of fatherless children.
If you took every gun away, they would still fight and kill each other. You can't solve a societal problem just by taking away guns. You must attack the root cause of the problem in order to be successful.
2007-09-23 11:06:15 · answer #3 · answered by Kitten S 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
How can you tie gun control to the old racism of the south and then mandated busing?
Anyway, just so you know that gun control does not work:
Go to any major city in the USA, like New York or Chicago which has very strict gun control laws. They have very high gun related murder rates.
Then, look at states that have little or no gun laws and they have low gun related murder rates.
Its not about laws... its about personal responsibility, morals and education. When you have people that do not possess those three qualities... no laws in the world with save society from them.
2007-09-23 11:01:38 · answer #4 · answered by Dog Lover 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Um, no. Gun control is like Prohibition. Banning things doesn't work. Once something exists, you cannot un-invent it.
The fact that the cities in the US that have the worst crime rates are those same cities that have strict gun control laws only proves how useless gun control laws are. The law-abiding have no guns, and so they are the perfect victims to the criminals who simply break the gun control laws.
The simple truth is: criminals break laws. That's pretty much the definition of a "criminal". This includes gun control laws.
Even if we pass laws that ban guns completely in the entire US, the guns won't magically vanish. The criminals will still be armed, and will still use their guns to commit their crimes.
2007-09-23 11:12:56 · answer #5 · answered by tyrsson58 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If you bother to look at the stats of any state that has relaxed their gun control standards, you will see that violent crime has gone down in virtually every one.
As stupid as it sounds "When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns" But it is true, DC has the strictest gun control laws of any city or state in the country yet has one of the highest violent "gun" crime rates. Put 2 and 2 together.
2007-09-23 11:04:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
WOW making a racist statement and a gun control statement. good lib you get a cookie.
2007-09-23 10:56:15 · answer #7 · answered by ken s 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋