Who thinks FEWER guns will cause fewer crimes?10 points!?

Question

i think fewer guns in the public will cause fewer crimes. What do you think and why?

Answer 1

Only if you get them away from the bad guys! Don't you realize the bad guys don't register their guns or buy them from the store?

Answer 2

A former teacher had a poster that said something about if guns were outlawed only outlaws would have guns so fewer guns "available" to the public isn't the answer. It is not the guns' fault that the crime rate is what it is. Fewer guns accessible to potential criminals would help.

Answer 3

fewer guns would not affect the crime rate at all. statistics show that in cities where concealed carry is legal, the crime rate drops significantly. Guns are not the problem, criminals are. Fewer criminals would cause less crime. Since criminals dont care about the law anyway, why would taking the guns from the law abiding lower crime? Many crimes are also commited with ball bats.. so would lowering the number of ball bats reduce crime as well????

Answer 4

Yes. People will still commit crimes but it's much harder and takes a much more cold-blooded person to kill with a knife than a gun. Guns are just too easy. It's kind of like nuclear weapons (kind of). Sure we could destroy the world with conventional bombs but it would be way too hard and would take really twisted people to carry it out. Nuclear weapons on the other hand, give good people the capacity to do terrible things because it's too easy. They are too good at destruction. Ordinary people can't be trusted with that kind of power (sadly, there are too many ordinary people running our government...). Likewise I think there should be fewer guns. Then again, I don't even think a lot of people should drive.

That said, I don't think guns should be entirely illegal. There are people who can certainly handle the responsibility. I just think they should be made considerably more difficult to get.

Answer 5

Oh, I doubt the crime RATE will go down, only the magnitude of the crime(s). If you look at the stats from Florida, which legalized gun owners to carry over 10 years ago, the crime rate either dropped off, or switched to TOURISTS ( who carry no guns ), so that shows you that criminals are afraid of gun-toting citizens. And show me any big city that has gun control that also has a low gun-used crime rate. NONE. And it'll never work. Arm the citizens, and the criminals will go elsewhere for easier pickin's. So EXPAND gun ownership, and solve crime. Or, send out police at night in the high-crime areas, and make them clean up the dregs, which no city seems to do. WOnder why?

- The Gremlin Guy - gun owner, and proud of it

Answer 6

That assertion is like saying "fewer cars will reduce driving under the influence". Problem is not the gun, but the person that mis-uses it. If governments would stop being soft on criminals, and instead give them harsh punishments and lengthy sentences, there would be fewer crimes (fewer criminals on street = less crime). Also, if lawfully gun-owning individuals happen to shoot some criminals dead, that will also reduce crime.

Answer 7

Fewer guns will not cause fewer crimes. The facts speak for themselves. Countries with the tightest gun control laws are the most violent. Great Britain and most of the Scandinavian countries ban guns and they have major problems with violence. Most major U.S. cities ban guns and they have major problems with violent crimes.

Switzerland actually has a law that requires most of its citizens to have guns in their homes (this is to allow them to have no standing military) and they have one of the lowest crime rates in the world. When you know home owners are armed you are not going to rob them, or commit other violent acts.

Facts are facts. Gun control causes crimes to go up.

Answer 8

Fewer guns is the same as almost pregnant. In my opinion, this would cause more illegal transaction regrading the sale of guns. Things have gotten so out of control it is going to take a rocket scientist to come up with the solution. Revamping laws, consequences etc. I will say, it can not hurt.

Answer 9

The following mass murders did not use guns, Ted Bundy, Richard Speck, Wayne Gacy, B.T.K. killer, Jeffery Dalmer. and the list could go on and on. The point is Criminals kill people with all kinds of weapons. If there were no guns what would you ban next, Knives, Clubs, Bow and Arrow, Base Ball Bats, etc. We live in a Liberal Society in which the majority of Kids grow up in a single parent household, watching trash on TV, and thinking the world owes them a living, What should we expect. What ever happened to the American Family that Prayed together and stayed together?

Answer 10

To be blunt, i think of you're incorrect. virtually all of us has stated the failings and folly of Gun administration. the main important one is that Gun administration advocates assume that if weapons are made unlawful the criminal will stick to the regulation besides. nicely, we've seen how nicely that works, merely like "Gun loose" zones. Chicago is a sturdy occasion of a city that likes to triumph over this lifeless horse. each and each time there's a gang appropriate shooting or merely at the instant, an harmless bystander shot Mayor Daley is valuable to be out in front of the Media railing against firearms that are already unlawful to own via anybody interior the city of Chicago. however the scapegoat is many times gun vendors outdoors of Chicago even nonetheless they have a device of state huge registration of firearms. returned whilst states have been beginning as much as enforce a CCW enable device there have been predictions that they could substitute into "sidestep city" or there could be "Wild West" form shootouts. i'm nevertheless waiting from them to ensue. even with the shown fact that it does not look like this is going to be too quickly. suitable now all yet 2 states subject CCW enables to voters. the two that don't are IL and my state, WI. the only reason it did not pass in WI is as a results of the fact the author of the bill to allow it, a Democrat, observed that the Democrat Governor's veto of the bill grew to become into approximately to be overrulled and voted against his own bill to furnish the Gov. political conceal.

Answer 11

i think fewer guns in the public will cause MORE crimes because the only people packing heat would be criminals and police officers and police officers can't be everywhere at once. when criminals know law abiding citizens can't carry a weapon, it increases the amount of crime.