When will America wake up and ban guns?

Question

yet another shooting how many more people need to die before America wakes up and bans guns.

Answer 1

When they change the rules and let a Canadian be president lol
No, I have no idea when it would happen. Not soon enough I'm sure.

Answer 2

Australia banned guns some time ago, has it made a difference?
Not real sure, because people here really were not big into firearms at all, so it is a moot question.
Sure, the rednecks and right wingers got all upset, but we were pretty indifferent with the new laws and went along with it. There hasn't been any real need to own a gun here, hunting really went out with the end of the Depression way back.
Even so, we all can still feel pretty confident picking up a weapon if needed, seems to be an inbred thing with us Aussies indeed, but having one around the house? Nah, not needed here, we do not see it as a God given right to do so.
A rifle and even a hand gun is looked as a sporting tool only and we see no real need. But since the ban on guns in this country, we have seen a dramatic rise in handguns used in crime here. Prior to the ban, only the police and Military had them, now there seems to be a greater use of these weapons by criminals Australia wide.
Having said this, the use is not against the ordinary "Joe Citzen" in the street so to speak. Shooting ordinary people walking down the street is very rare indeed.
I know Americans have it writen in your Constitution, or Bill Of Rights, to have a firearm, but what for? The reason it was put in there was for a self protection a couple of hundred years ago, The question you could ask yourselves is...Is that reason still relevant today? Maybe the answer is yes, but it would only be because there are so many firearms in your country and it would be impossible to round them all up like we did.

Answer 3

America will never ban guns becuase for one its in our bill of rights, second if you ban guns, the only people that dont get guns are the good people. Bad people still find guns & use them becuase they dont care cause their the bad guy wh breaks the law. Look at britian, they ban guns & they still have gun violence & if you say not as much as the US thats true, but the US is also a hell of lot bigger & has a lot more people. Lets put it this way, the day the US government bans guns is the day the people who own the guns revolt against the government to tell them NO!

Answer 4

will never happen. It is our right given to us that we are allowed to bear arms! When are people going to wake up and realize that we don't live in a perfect world and what happens will happen.

There is no need to ban a gun, just better gun control and laws, checks and balances, I for one am glad to be able to bear arms, I grew up around guns and respect them and understand the power behind it. Its not the guns we need to ban its a better mental health care system we need. No need to ban a gun when the gun did nothing, it was the person behind the gun that did it.

Answer 5

America will never ban guns. NEVER. If you want to know what life would be like in an unarmed America just ask some of our immigrants what life was like in there home countries where only there rulers had guns. Make no mistake, if Americans were all disarmed we would have rulers & no rights in just a few short years, & those that disagreed would be imprisoned or murdered along with there famlies.
Think it wouldn't happen, just do some research & find out.
They will have to pry my cold, dead fingers from my gun, I will never surrender it.

Answer 6

gun control is hitting your target. and second of all, i never hear of an AK-47 walking outside and mowing down people, there is always somebody behind it. i think a happy mediem is not to sell guns to crazy people. (it is also in the bill of rights that we have the right to bare arms) i would like to see anybody come up to my small Pennsylvania town and demand us to give our guns away, oh yeah, thatd be pretty. America would have a revolution if they banned firearms, especially from Pennsylvanians (where the first day of rifled deer hunting is a holiday) and from Texans

Answer 7

You know, first off there is the old cliche, "Guns don't kill people, people do" but sadly it is true, do you honestly believe that if they could not get a gun that they would not make a pipe bomb or some other destructive device designed to kill people?

Now do a little research, look at the Cities and States that have hardened or lessened gun laws and LOOK at the statistics concerning violent (aka Gun Crimes) crime. Virtually every city that has in-acted strict gun laws has seen an increase of gun crime and every city/state that has relaxed gun laws has seen a decrease in violent (gun) crimes.

Washington DC that has the stiffest gun laws in the USA, has one of the highest gun crime rates of the country, yet Florida has one of the lowest (Florida relaxed its gun laws about 15 years ago and much to the chagrin of the anti-gun people crime went down, not up)

Think about it!

Answer 8

So you mean to say that if we ban guns, all violence will dissappear?

Read these facts and I dare you to try to challenge even one of them.

Law-abiding citizens use guns to defend themselves against criminals over 2.4 million times every year -- or 6,575 times a day. This means that each year, firearms are used 60 times MORE OFTEN to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives. - National Safety Council

According to the CDC, the total number of gun deaths by homicide, suicide and accidents in 2004 was around 29,000. Now, keep in mind that the gun was only the means of violence. In 2004 there were only 1,100 accidental deaths from guns in the US, meaning that if guns were not a factor, there would still be arond 27,000 violence-related deaths and suicides which occured by using other means.

No one was ever killed by a gun. A gun is a tool utilized by a person who can think and make decisions. It is an inanimate object, like a car, a knife, or an axe, which all are also used as a means commit crime.

Logically, you would have to outlaw cars before you can outlaw guns, because they are responsible for way many more deaths than a gun.

I mean, the government has an obligation to protect citizens from criminals, but how good of a job do they actually do? I agree with background checks, but most of the other laws that are on the books do nothing to stop crime.

Example: The assult weapon ban of 1994. Made guns illegal that held more than so many rounds, made collapsable stocks illegal, made bayonet lugs illegal... Tell me how any of those stipulations prevented crime. Even with the law, those items could still be bought from private people and on the black market. All it did was prevented an honest person from buying such guns - like my AR-15 has all of those feature, but it is no more prone to cause crime than a hunting rifle that was never illegal.

Now, lets look at this logically NOT IDEALISTICALLY. If more people began concealing and carrying weapons legally (in most states you have to apply for a license and take a class) do you honestly think a criminal would feel as free to commit a violent crime knowing that there is a good chance that his victim has the means to protect themselves? Yes, crime would still occur, BUT it has been proven in states such as Florida, Texas, and West Virginia that the greater the percentage of people who have concealled weapons permits is complemented by a lower percentage of violent crime.

If a man were to break into your home in the middle of the night, and you did not know if he was armed or not, would you rather have a cell phone, a baseball bat, or a gun?

Virginia Tech is a prime example of how gun laws fail. The university strictly enforced a no weapon policy on its premeses. Consequently, the honest students were not armed, even if they were licensed, it still was not permited. One criminal broke the rules with a gun he bought illegally and slaughtered 32 students. Had any one of those students or witnesses been armed, they would have been able to neutralize the threat and saved at least some lives.

Japan: Guns have been completely banned for many year. Last month, the mayor of Nagasaki was shot by a gang member. The honest people gave their guns up, but the gangs still have them.

20% of U.S. Violent Crime occurs in 4 cities: New York, Chicago, Washington D.C., & Detroit. These cities have near prohibition laws regarding handgun ownership.

1976- Washington, D.C. enacted one of the most restrictive gun control laws in the nation. Effect: Murder has risen 134%while the national murder rate has dropped 2%
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New York City - Up 15% between 1998 and 1999. The SAME timeframe that new handgun restrictions came into effect.

In 1986, Florida Adopted the Right-To-Carry law, allowing citizens to carry firearms. The results from 1987-1996:

Homicide Rate: DECREASED 36%
Homicide by Firearm: DECREASED 37%
Homicide by Handgun: DECREASED 41%

93% of Police officers believe law-abiding citizens should be able to purchase a firearm for self-defense or sport.

Answer 9

Well drugs are illegal but I can still buy them at the bar across the street (or so I'm told). If we banned guns I think you could still get them. I know in Japan it's not easy to get one, I guess since they live on a island, plus there are strict laws over there. I always felt safe walking the streets at night.

Answer 10

When the Constitution is amended to allow the gov't to do so legally, or when a sufficient amount of judicial decisions make the 2nd amendment a farce.

The first isn't likely, as most citizens don't trust the gov't enough to disarm.
The second is far more likely.

Answer 11

Never,
The Second Amendment was put in place to ensure the people always had power over the government by threat of revolution if the Government become oppressive.
The people should not fear the government, The Government should fear the people.