why are so many people against guns?

Question

when alchohol kills ten times more people a year? but the same person who wants to get rid of guns sits there talking about it with a beer in their hand?

O.K. well most people who die from alchohol die because some one else was drinking
also most people who die from guns die because some one else had a gun

man so many good answers for both sides

Answer 1

well honestly it boils down to this more people drink than own guns about 75% of the U.S. population drinks but only about 40% own guns

but if people were to look up statistics they would find that were gun laws are more liberal and even guns required the murder rate is significantly lower than where it is stricter and even banned
how ever every were that alchohol is banned the death rate for that is lower.

meaning getting rid of alchohol has nothing but good effects and getting rid of guns has on the majority bad effects.

Answer 2

An armed man is a citizen.
An unarmed man is a subject.
A disarmed man is a prisoner.

The first two are from one of the founding fathers; I believe it was Thomas Jefferson. The third is mine.

When all the do gooders are finally successful in disarming the citizens it will leave the population, as a whole, at the mercy of the police and criminal element. I'm not certain which I will fear the most.

Ben Franklin said that if a man was to surrender his freedom for the promise of security he probably deserves neither. I do believe the US population deserves neither. It will be a sad day when it happens but make no mistake, it is already nearly there. In many places it is already so difficult and involved to purchase a firearm that most either don't or buy off the black market.

And to the fools that believe guns kill people, I can assure you that a piece of steel and some powder will NEVER jump up, jack a round into its own chamber, aim itself and pull its own trigger. You are being sold a bill of goods by politicians who want you to believe they are doing something about crime. That is crap. The crime rate is in a steady climb. It dips from time to time but it always recovers. Before 1968 California had a murder rate half that of the national average. Now it is over twice and we need more gun control? BS!!! We need more crime control but that isn’t likely. At least it won't happen as long as the borders leak drugs and illegal aliens. When the first thing a cop wants to know is if you have a permit for the gun you used to shoot the guy that had just killed your wife and four children.

You bleeding hearts who value your freedom of speech and protest will really feel betrayed because when any of the first ten Amendments fall and as I said the Second Amendment is on life support, the rest will be close behind.

Way too many Americans are just short sighted fools.

BTW, it is the abuse of alcohol that kills. PEOPLE choose to drink and drive. A DUI charge should be accompanied with an ADW charge. If an uncontrolled 3000 pound projectile traveling 70 MPH isn't a lethal weapon I would like to know what is.

Merry Christmas, I may as well go all the way on political incorrectness.

Answer 3

Because the people who drink alcohol excessively know exactly what they are doing to their bodies, and it's their problem and their resposibility if they want to throw away their life.

On the other hand, a gun is made for deliberately causing death to another human being, and that is not in any person's right to take the life of someone else.

The thing with guns is that there are not as many people using guns, as there are people drinking alcohol. Therefore, obviously, more people die of alcohol abuse than gun violence. However, guns each day are growing in popularity, and what would happen if someday every person in the world had access to a gun? A lot more people will be dying from gun violence than alcohol. Therefore, many conscious people are trying to prevent the terrible fate from becoming reality in the future.

Alcohol is something we cannot control anymore, but we can try to prevent the rapid growth and spread of gun violence.

Answer 4

Well when there are enough police to protect me in my home, defend me on the street and protect my family 24/7/365 I might for just one second consider giving up my guns.

Guns don't jump up off the table, break into a house, kill people in and then lay back down on the table.

PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE. With a gun, knife, bomb, bat, tire iron, car, truck, get the picture.

When will you bleeding hearts ever learn that PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE. The method does not matter. Taking a way an item that kills will NOT STOP THE KILLING.

But the most and best reason that you should have a gun, is that poor football player. Instead of picking up a machete to defend himself he should have had a gun and he just might be alive today. But the fact that 4 PEOPLE NOT 4 GUNS killed him means that guess what .....................

A human killed him not a piece of steel.

Answer 5

Good question! Never understood why they made a mandatory waiting period when people who are going to use a gun for an illegal purpose (robbing or murder) aren't going to buy the gun legally anyway. They will probably by one off the street from some lush who wants to go buy more beer! And as Larry the Cable Guy says, "Guns don't kill people, husbands who come home early kill people."

Answer 6

It is because we've all had different experiences in life that influence our thoughts of these things. There are a lot of people who have died due to mishandled firearms. Even moreso, children have blown their heads off due to an adult being irresponsible and leaving a gun within reach.

It is the same for a MADD mother fighting for bartenders to call the police when a drunk patron wants to drive home. It is due to their experience in which someone they know have been killed due to drunk driving. Therefore, they become advocates for the cause.

These people who are against guns most likely had an experience (or knew someone who did) in which a gun was used in a negative manner.

Answer 7

I'm not against guns, now ofcourse if it lands in the wrong hands. But when I'm 21 years old, I'm definantly getting a gun for protection reasons. I don't care, I don't ever want to cross a situation where there happens to be a sick **** that decides to break into my house and I'm unarmed and helpless.
Besides, guns don't kill people, and if you say that's true, I've never seen a gun walk up to someone and kill them.
People kill people. Guns are just the accessory!

Answer 8

That's a damn good point.
I don't have a problem with them at all, that is if their in the right persons hands.

But you have to think about the mothers that send their children to school and have to worry about a Columbine reenactment.
And you have to think about the scrawny little guy that has to walk through the ghetto after work every night.
And what about the simple Amish town that got blasted last Sep.
Remember?

We are afraid of these things happening again.
This is why we teach history classes to the kids, to prevent these things from coming back.
Nobody wants to get shot, but we all handle that fear in different ways.

Answer 9

Because there are many people that use guns (and alcohol) in irresponsible ways. I do not own a gun because I do not know how to use one. And I am afraid that one of my children may get a hold of it somehow, no matter how carefully I teach them and hurt themselves or someone else.
It is not the guns I am against, but the people that use them irresponsibly. Or leave them for their children to get at.

Answer 10

Guns mean power and in the wrong hands controls people. Like drug trafficking, prostitution, illegal loan companies. Really a lot of unstable people own guns. Alcohol does kill but for some reason it's not taken that seriously. People do not see the real horrors of alcohol until it affects them.