do america let people carry guns?

Question

if so then why? there are shootings in all of these schools and stuff so why not stop the source of guns? you dont here of much gun crime in the UK, its mainly america. Why is this?

Answer 1

It is the lifestyle we are raised in.

we are a country built off feeding off the oppressed and stricken, poor social programs and everyone told to live "the dream" many not winning.

Our systems are built around keeping many in debt and we seek quick remedy for everything. We see the surface of so much, but with the ignorance of history we have little self observance over many other societies in the world. The result? Aggressive, stressed out, depressed citizens with few avenues of release. Guns ideally are a right to people, but a problem is we have such a poor awareness of socialization and community, and worst, history.

i think we could take them away, but there's always a way of getting weapons. There are plenty rally groups pressing to remove guns from every household in the united states. Others just want more regulation, and I already feel like there's enough regulation, which is needed.

Part of what I'm speaking on can be witnessed right now. So many people posting have an image of all people in jail being "bad" or "criminal" while saying "good" or "innocent people" have the right to have guns. As though the community and society we live in doesn't shape our attitude, or even mental condition.

Instead i think changing the social climate is more necessary to reduce hostility and climactic situations we face.

Answer 2

Yes, we can carry guns. The hard part about those shootings is they happened in gun-free zones. If just one person in the mall or at the school had a gun than there would have been no massacre. Just witness the church shooting. One young woman with a gun and no massacre occurs. What it boils down to is that good people with the proper permits do not go out and kill others. It is people who do not respect laws that do. I suspect the main difference between the UK and the USA is that we have always had a gun culture from the time we were colonies we have always had to defend ourselves and this attitude has not changed.

Answer 3

Yes you can carry a gun in the US. Each state is different as to the manner of carrying the gun. Many states have a permit you can get that allows you to carry a concealed handgun.

Guns may not be carried in many places, such as government buildings, schools, places where alcohol is served, banks even with a permit unless you are a police officer.

In the US, the argument most used for carrying guns is that if normal citizens weren't allowed to have guns, then only the criminals would have guns.

I really don't know what the best answer is.

Answer 4

As private citizens in the USA we have the right to own fireams and most of the States in the US allow citizens to carry concealed handguns on their person with a permit or License to do so. A previous poster stated that the Second Amendment applied to collective ownership under a Govt. Organization. If that were true, the words "The People" meaning the private citizen, would not even be in the 2nd amendment.

Even in countries with strict registration and licensing have had School shootings. the most recent was on Nov 11th, 2007, in Jokela Finland, 8 students and the gunman, Pekka-Eric Auvinen who killed himself afterwards. Even the Columbine shooters could not own firearms themselves but had gotten them through an 18 year old aquaintence. This person is often known as a "Shadow-buyer" who has no criminal record and can pass the waiting period for a background check.

This method along with theft is how most criminals and other people who cannot own firearms get their weapons.

Most of the firearms violence in the US is criminally related in that the gunman has a past criminal record and by law could not legally own or possess any type of firearm for any reason. There are tens of thousands of laws that pertain to the ownership of frearms. But, the only response of our Politicians is to make more laws that affect those that obey the law and use firearms in a safe, legal manner rather than prosecute and impose harsh penalties to those that don't.

Answer 5

I live in Texas and we have a conceled handgun law where we can take a class and carry a weapon in our purses, under our jackets, ect...also if we are traveling in Texas and are going at least 2 counties away from our home, we can carry a gun in plain site, like on the seat of our car but it can't be loaded and we have to keep the bullets in the glovebox or somewhere else.
Here, you never know if the person you are going to try to rob or rape or whatever, is carring a weapon. We haven't had a school shooting. If I am not mistaken, our crime rate has actually gone down. Especially in the smaller towns. There is an old joke in Texas that says a judge will not give you any punishment for killing someone "if they needed a killing"... and if you do kill someone, you might want to make sure "they needed a killing" as we lead the country in death penalities carried out...

Answer 6

America is not a communist country yet, so it allows innocent people to buy a license and carry a gun for protection because we have more criminals than cops. Are crime rate is unbearable and one day all innocent Americans will carry a gun and the crime rate will depreciate! Criminals carry guns because they steel them from innocent people or buy them from someone who has stole them. I ammend my right to carry and alot of people do. If the government took that right from us, criminals would not stop owning guns. The innocent people would be the only ones punished! Innocent people are afraid to own a gun, but hopefully one day will wake up and defend thierselves!!!!

Answer 7

i carry a gun everywhere i go and i have a permit to carry . if VT let those kids carry a gun or at least the teachers the disaster would not have happened, if someone in church had a gun that would have come to a quick end also , and at the Mall where that disaster took place !! they would not be so quick to pull a trigger if they thought others had a firearm also and i am sure i will get tons of thumbs down but i will not be begging for my life like a rat !!

Answer 8

It's an amendment in our constitution. Everyone has the right to bear arms.

There are limitations to this, of course. No person under 18 can own or carry a rifle, unless hunting. No person under 21 can carry a pistol.

There are people who break these laws though, and thats why there are shootings.

Answer 9

Right no gun crime in UK, however they just banned sumarii swords in London due to 'sword' killings. One fella apparently went and killed some 11 people in one rampage.

Firearms are not the problem.

Sick people having a place they can go and wreck unrestricted havok (Malls, schools, etc) where none can defend themselves is the problem.

And for the innocent animals comment above.... every year we find one and sometimes two carcass's in our back woods, dead deer from starvation. Thats why we fill our refridgerator each fall during season. Better to utilize the meat than let it waste and suffer.

Answer 10

Ya, not much gun crime over there. You were foreced to come up with much more creative methods of violent crime. We will just stick to the guns.


The actual reason is because the right to have guns is one of the founding ideas of this country.I cant say that is an awesome idea, but there it is. I dont think we are going to be doing away with them.