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?

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The Second Amendment should be changed!

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Answer 1

I will never give up my right to bear arms. Guns don't pull the trigger. Those that do shoot in self defense, defense of others, and for the police upholding the law and protecting themselves, that is what the 2nd Amendment is for.
If a gun is used in a crime, do I agree with stiffer penalties, yes I do. Though I will get many thumbs down, I believe the criminal should have his/her hand cut off. This form of punishment works in other countries, it should work here also.

Answer 2

Look, your name (shes my everything) tells me that you either have high regards for your mother or of your infactuation with your girlfriend.

Right now you are still to young to understand the full effects of not allowing gun ownership.

If we ban gun ownership, then we will surely become a dictatorship. This is exactly what Hitler did. Do you prefer that we live under the same style of life that Germany did when Hitler was their ruler?

Now, you say the Second Amendment needs to be changed. Changed to what? What you think it needs to be changed to? Shoot, why not just change the whole Constitution to meet your needs?

You think by changing the Second Amendment, it will reduce crime(s). What crimes? Rape? Burglary? Assault and battery? Murder?

I have news for you, these crimes will still exist even without gun ownership. Read up on all your facts before (not just what you hear about what happened at Virginia Tech) posting your opinions on such a subject.

Leave the Second Amenedment alone!!!!!!!!!!!!

All we hear about is what the news tells us. We never hear about the good that guns do. We never hear about how someone was able to protect themselves or their families from someone trying to harm them (perhaps with a gun themselves).

Look, I don't own a gun and I'm in a wheelchair. The one thing I know is that perhaps I shoud own one because I have been assualted before (just once).

I'm not saying that bad things haven't happened before when it comes to guns in the wrong hands of certain people, however; if only the police have guns then we will most certainly be in great danger.

Answer 3

MORE guns in the hands of responsible people means FEWER crimes. This is a proven fact.

Just look at Vermont and New Hampshire. Two states right next to eachother. Vermont is extremely liberal and extremely anti-gun ownership. Criminals are flocking there.

New Hampshire, who's motto is "Live Free or Die" has a population that has a very high percentage of gun owners and has an extremely low crime rate.

Answer 4

I tend to agree with you. Although the other side of that equation is true also. More guns might equal less crimes as well. If everyone is packing would you be more or less apt to mug someone? They might just mug you back. I'm for putting more guns into the hands of the people. Furthermore, lets get rid of restrictions on the type. If you can afford it, you should be able to buy it.

Answer 5

The Second Amendment could dissappear tomorrow and that would not forbid Americans from arming.

The right to individuals to bear arms is actually embedded within the Declaration of Independence.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Did you find it?

It is the foremost right from the "Creator" (not the government) and is "Life"

It is self-evident. Removing the means to defend ones's life is effectively denying that right.

The Second Amendment is an affirmation of that right.

To deny the right to life effectively voids all other rights including Liberty.


If you want to merely reduce crime, legalize drugs and set mandatory life sentences with the first offense for crimes committed with a gun. If murder is the crime, impose the death penalty at no pre-determined time. Just kick in the cell door unannounced and carry out the penalty.

If you want to void the Constitution, ban guns.


Also, contained within the Fourth Amendment is the right to arm as armed robbery is an "unreasonable search and seizure" from which the individual has the right to protect him/herself.

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures,..."

I don't know about other people, but to me anyone who advocates I surrender my ability to defend myself as well as my posessions is so far outside the spirit of the Constitution as to warrant loss of Citizenship.

Get it? Got it? Good!

Answer 6

I think that reducing the legitimate guns in this country would increase the crime. As one person stated up higher that they have an influx of gun crime in their state due to the illegal status of fire arms. Alaska has minimal gun crime, yet highest per capita gun ownership in the country. Let's not forget that throughout the history of this country battles were waged, freedoms fought for, because people had their own guns available when called for duty. Also as a person who works in law enforcement I have rarely seen a gun crime committed with someones own licensed gun. So, regulating guns with cause problems, not solve them.

Answer 7

To be blunt, i think of you're incorrect. tremendously much each and every physique has referred to the failings and folly of Gun administration. the biggest one is that Gun administration advocates assume that if weapons are made unlawful the offender will stick to the regulation as properly. properly, we've seen how properly that works, merely like "Gun unfastened" zones. Chicago is a stable occasion of a city that likes to triumph over this lifeless horse. each and every time there's a gang appropriate taking photographs or merely these days, an harmless bystander shot Mayor Daley is particular to be out in front of the Media railing against firearms that are already unlawful to very own via every person interior the city of Chicago. however the scapegoat is in many situations gun proprietors outdoors of Chicago even nevertheless they have a device of state extensive registration of firearms. decrease back while states have been commencing as much as enforce a CCW enable device there have been predictions that they might develop into "steer sparkling of city" or there could be "Wild West" form shootouts. i'm nevertheless waiting from them to happen. even though it does not look like that is going to likely be too quickly. appropriate now all yet 2 states subject CCW enables to voters. the two that do no longer are IL and my state, WI. the only reason it did no longer bypass in WI is with the aid of the fact the author of the invoice to allow it, a Democrat, observed that the Democrat Governor's veto of the invoice became approximately to be overrulled and voted against his very own invoice to grant the Gov. political conceal.

Answer 8

I'm against guns but I don't think so. If a law-abiding, tax-paying citizen feels that he/she needs a gun to protect his/herself, then go ahead. If he/she doesn't have a criminal record or serious mental conditions that is. First pass stringent back ground checks, take some courses, get a permit, and go and get a gun.

Statistically, more guns tends to lead to fewer crimes.

Answer 9

not a chance..
the only thing a criminal fears is an armed victim... countless articles published with interviews of people in prison.

20 years ago Kinnesaw, Ga. passed a city ordinance requiring home owners to own a gun...burglaries and violent crime dropped immediately and has stayed down

Look at what happened to the increase in violent crime in Australia when the government make law abiding citizens give up their guns.

If guns cause crime..autos cause crashes..pencils cause misspelled words...

an armed man is a citizen....an unarmed man is a subject

PS A priori..yesterday, 64,000,000 gun owners committed no crime.

Answer 10

Communities with the most guns are the safest- lowest crime. Bad people will get the weapons regardless of the law but law abiding people would be left defenseless. Look at the real problem; PEOPLE