Why can't decent citizens carry guns?

Question

I'm sure there would have to be some type of psycho-analysis to prove whether or not you're a threat or not. But I feel like this, criminals will always be armed no matter what the laws are, so in reality the laws only prevent normal, law abiding citizens from protecting themsleves. So many crimes could have been avoided had ordinary citiznes been allowed to pack heat.

Answer 1

I agree.

Answer 2

There are cases where having a gun was to the advantage of the proposed victim.

It is better to be judged by 12 than to be carried by 6. People kill and injure not guns.

It is also true that you must be able to not only get to your gun first, but also be accurate in your shooting. Most crimminal activity with a gun is by ambush, this increases the level of difficulty.

The right to bear arms has always been discriminatory. It did not include Native Americans or so-called African Amercans or any other so-called colloured people.

Gun license does not ensure that the person is a decent citizen, it only ensures a licensed gun and revenue for the government.

Fear mogerring is popular. USA citizens are conditioned to be in fear of almost everything, everywhere, and everyone, including themselves. They cannot even trust themselves individually or collectively. A House divided Cannot Stand. They stand for nothing but fear and are most comfortable when in fear.

A Gun for some gives a sense of power, right, and security. The land and right to govern has been by the gun. The biggest gun (Atomic Bomb) in the world was first used by the USA, who incidentally owns most of these kinds of big guns. If might makes right, and guns are might, then this place has the right and is always right.

Guns do support a false sense of security. What is done with a gun is permanent and irreversible. Some states do support the citizens right to carry. If you should decide to carry, please be responsible for the sake of your innocence,sanity and soul. Avoid doing what you cannot undo.

Answer 3

The laws do allow most Americans to carry weapons, they just can't be carried concealed. As for your assumption that many of the crimes could have been prevented by armed potential victims; there is too much BS there.

For starters, the potential victims would have to be willing to actually use the weapons. Provided they are willing to use the necessary force; how much are you willing to bet that the criminal will be shot instead some innocent bystander down the street?

Of course, there is still the assumption that the potential victim would be given time to reach the weapon. Usually, the criminal already has their weapon drawn.

Answer 4

Headrek 1,

All of this is only my opinion. I don't know where you live, but in the United States, more than half of the states have passed "right to carry" laws. The result of these new laws, can give us a few clues as to why politicians are uncomfortable with armed citizens. Without exception, in all of the jurisdictions that issue carry permits to qualified citizens, the violent crime rates have fallen through the floor. While this may be good news for citizens, it has ominous portent for governments. One of the most basic foundational beliefs of all governments, is that we need them to keep us safe. We have been led to believe, that only the police, the armed servants of the district attorney, can protect us from crime. How embarrassing to discover that armed citizens are far more effective at protecting themselves, and reducing violent crime, than the expensive, tax subsidized paramilitary police forces. In municipalities where gun ownership is banned, or severely restricted, the rates of violent crime continue to skyrocket beyond belief. Everyone lives in fear, and the politicians just keep calling for even more weapons restrictions. Britain is a glaring and embarrassing example of what happens when citizens (subjects) have their rights to be armed, infringed. There is a more conspiratorial side of the argument, which contends that unarmed citizens are far more easy to control during times of emergency, real or contrived. The truth of the matter is, that armed citizens, are the single most effective means of reducing crime known to man. Contrary to what the nay sayers and gun grabbers have stated, legally armed citizens, are almost never involved in any sort of unlawful acts involving firearms. Just the opposite. It is the unlicensed, unlawfully armed individuals in the areas where gun ownership is restricted, who are the problem. For the moment, the tide seems to be going against the anti-gunners in America. We have seen, however, that it only takes one election, for the darkness to set in. Under the guise of a War on Terror, the implications could be quite ominous. Just my two cents. Peace be unto you.....

Will

Answer 5

Your State Must Have a Conceal/Carry law for Decent Citizens to be allowed to carry guns. Decent Citizens must apply for a permit. If they pass a through background check, and an approved Firearms Safety Training Class, and they pay the proper fee, then there shouldn't be a problem of them obtaining the Permit to carry a gun.

Each State allowing Conceal Carry Permits differ on when one must renew their permit.

As long as you have never been arrested for any crime, other than DUI, there shouldn't be a problem for you to obtain a permit to carry a gun provided you follow the steps set by your State to do so.

Answer 6

Many areas do allow you to carry weapons. I live in Missouri and we can carry a concealed weapon as long as we don't have a felony or mental disability background.

It's up to the state you live in.

None of the shootouts or rise in gun deaths that the liberal news here predicted has happened after years of concealed carry.

Answer 7

"criminals will always be armed no matter what the laws are"

That is not necessarily true. Countries where it is harder to get a gun have less armed criminals. Of course, the worst criminals will find a way around it, but most will not.

Answer 8

I do carry a gun. I'll be damned if I'm going to end up as a statistic lying in some morgue without the person that killed me in the morgue as well.