For believers in restricted gun ownership.?

Question

For all of those people who are anti-gun ownership or believe in strongly restricted ownership...I don't see why you believe this. Please, someone explain to me why you would want to be an advocate of this. All it is is another restriction to our freedoms. Do you really want less freedom? It makes no sense to me why someone would believe in this.

And don't even try to tell me that it will make for a safer society, because it wont. If no one has guns, what is to keep a thief from robbing someone's house or a mugger from jumping someone on the street? Just like nukes...the more there are, the safer the world will be. If you dont believe this, you need to realize that there hasn't been a large war since the atom bomb was invented.

To Girl Geek...

No, I didnt grow up during the Cold War, but I know for a fact that no war actually ever broke out. The threat of the nukes scared people to much to go to war with the USSR. So all you have done is reinforce my point by using the Cold War as an example, for NO WAR EVER BROKE OUT!

Answer 1

Freedoms should be restricted insofar as they tend to encroach on other people's freedoms (such as a right to life, or not being shot at). Doling out guns for everybody will encourage more shoot-outs.

The mentality that everyone should have guns to prevent gun-related crimes reflects the dangerous Cold War concept of deterrence. If you believe in relaxed gun restrictions, then you must necessarily believe we should give out nukes to Iran and North Korea to ensure that we don't engage in nuclear war. After all, if every country (including ones that support terrorism) had nukes, then we would all be safe right?

BTW, the Cold War spawned the Vietnam War, the Korea War, the overthrow of Mossadegh in Iran, and the overthrow of Arbenz in Guatemala. Not to mention the Bay of Pigs fiasco. People still died, democracy was still suspended, and a nuclear war narrowly averted. Deterrence is illusory.

Answer 2

Well Conservatives don't want to restrict gun ownership. Generally that is a liberal position. Liberals gain by showing they are doing something about crime and violence, even though it doesn't really make much difference. They have the appearance of trying to do something, and it's cheap to do. More fundamentally, liberals just feel it is wrong that someone should have the ability to assert their independence without society's structure to defend them. Conservatives would not restrict guns because gun owners, people who believe in independence and liberty, are the base for the Conservatives. Crossing them just means pissing off your base of voters. By the way, I'm making very general statements here. There are liberals who are strong believers in gun ownership. But they are not the majority when it comes to this issue.

Answer 3

I don't feel everyone shouldn't have a gun -- cuz there will always be some "bad guy" with one but i do feel that the laws should be very strict on the matter -- i have heard to many stories about some 5 year old getting mom or dad's gun and shooting their lil sister or friend. I have seen to many stories of kids getting their parents guns or the parent giving kids guns and then next thing you know they are shooting kids at school. Or some paranoid person getting a gun and accidently sooting their kid sneaking back in from a night out of partying -- to many accidents happen -- but yet just because you have no record saying your bad or messed up you can have a gun! I have personally seen a man get shot (dead) for fighting with his wife -- i knew both the shooter and the man who was shot -- 1 man lost his life and the other it changed his life forever. I do know that guns can protect you but to many innocent people have gotten hurt in the process!! Yes i know gun don't kill, people with guns do -- so that is why i feel it should be alot harder to get a gun!!

Answer 4

I'm a gun owner, and DO believe in restrictions on ownership and the guns that are for sale.

Felons should NOT have guns, and if found in possession should be immediately be returned to prison. Automatic weapons should not be for sale or possession of the general public. There should be waiting periods and background checks for handguns, shotguns, and rifles. Those who SELL handguns illegally should be prosecuted, fined, and imprisoned. I would also like to see an ORDERLY program for the issue and license of concealed-carry permits.

Make the penalties for crimes harsher... murder and rape should get the criminal the chair.

AND, if I shoot an intruder, the Judge who agrees that the intruder can sue ME should be shot.

Answer 5

Indeed and you live in a world where you can purchase a gun at 15 as long as you have your drivers ed. identity, over the counter at Wal-Mart, yet are forbidden from buying Cigarettes or Alcohol until you are 21.
I guess someone up there figured cigs and booze may be dangerous.......
Guns are fine in the right hands.... Sadly the incompetence of many owners enables the minority to steal them and then intimidate the majority. It's too easy to get guns. By all means have them but ensure the controls are water tight, not wishy washy and available to the loons who will abuse them.

Answer 6

I am not actually for gun restriction, but I won't have them in my house.


And do you seriously believe that more nukes makes a safer world? You must not have grown up during The Cold War.


Please don't try the old "If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns" That doesn't hold water....in countries with more stringent gun control, deaths from guns are minuscule, where in our country there are in the tens of thousands every year.

Frankly, I think the gun epidemic has nothing to do with gun control at all, it has to do with the mindset of the American public (fight at all costs) because in Canada, per capita there are many more guns, but their gun deaths are less than 10% of ours.


I'm just sayin'

(Like I said, we need to change our mindset, not ban guns.)




*********Yes, I understand that no war broke out, young man. But diplomacy would have been much less fearful for us to live under than worrying constantly that a bomb was going to drop. Unless you lived through it, you couldn't possibly understand, and really have no bearing on whether it was good or bad because you were not there. If we would have been decent to each other instead of getting into a p*ssing contest, life would have been much more pleasant for all of us. Same with guns...who wants to worry about getting shot just walking down the street because guns are everywhere? Not I. And like I said, it is our mindset (My "gun" is bigger than yours") that causes the problem. Let's not ban guns, let's change our attitude.Try again, dear*************

Answer 7

I can say this...my sister felt much safer when someone broke into her house with a 9mm in one hand and her cell phone in the other dialing 911.

The 9mm gave her an instant feeling of security while the police arrived.

Muggers, murderers, crooks don't bother registering and buying a firearm legally so why punish the honest citizen from gun ownership?

Answer 8

I don't advocate anti-gun ownerships, but I do advocate restrictions. For example, mandatory safety training questions. Yes, some people have common sense about the dangers of guns but not everyone. Also, why do gun owners need to get their gun within 2 hours? There should be some background checking and other analysis before handing a gun to someone. For example, VT hopefully wouldn't have happened if the gun laws weren't so laid back. Ironically, it might have ended better if the students were allowed LEGALLY to carry guns on school property. (I hear that rule changed about a month prior to the incident.)

Preventing anyone to own guns isn't great either. People who are going to behave illegally are going to get their guns illegally. But that doesn't mean America shouldn't care who gets them legally.

Answer 9

Dude have you heard of non violent weapons. It utilizes pellets like rubber bullets as projectiles and electric guns to knock outlaws out. Use of these non hostile and relatively safe weapons is gonna make that restriction into more effect!

Answer 10

I believe in stricter gun control laws because basically people are idiots, they are not in control of their emotions and will shoot you without a second thought.

If folks were just a tad more sane and sensible then it would not be a problem, I was raised around guns and owned my first one when I was 7.

But Mr. Suit after 3 martinis at lunch is just a fool who can pass a test and background check. He is in a hurry and has no compunction about shooting you if you are in his way.

I witnessed a shoot-out on my street between 2 grown, well-dressed men and I live in the burbs. One had passed the other and the fight was on. I called the cops and they both went to jail but it was a scary few moments.