Do you agree the time has come for some real Gun Control legislation?
Humanist asked:
4 killed in Philly on Monday,
5 in Utah Mall Yesterday….
btw… This is a non-partisan question. I don’t think I should give up my guns, but I do think that some people do not have the right to bear arms… there goes my dilemna.
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No. Guns don’t kill, people do. You don’t cure cancer by fighting the fever it may cause.
Society is the problem. Guns are just a tool. Criminals do not follow laws. You will only disarm law abiding citizens.
people cannot be trusted with guns. therefore, they must go. the US has the highest gun crime rate on earth and still the problem is swept under the carpet to protect an alreaddy butchered constitution.
Not only no, but hell no. The second amendment protects all of our other freedoms and when you start talking about restricting it, you therefore agree to put your security in the hands of the government, something that I refuse to do. Punish the people who use guns in crimes, but do not disarm law abiding citizens.
Yes I do . I think more honest citizens should have more guns and be trained to control them.
No, the headlines would read 4 killed in Philly, 5 killed in Utah and the swords left a bloody mess.
If someone wants to kill people it won’t matter if they have guns or not. Besides if the cops can’t get the guns away from the criminals now, do you think they are going to turn them over because they pass a law?
Do you agree it is time to outlaw cars? Thousands killed every year in car accidents.
Cars must go.
Sounds stupid, doesn’t it?
No. There are plenty of laws on the books. What would you have done? I know tell those who shoot people to take their guns down to the local police station and turn them in along with every honest American. They will gladly do it.
the kid in the mall was a teen. His PARENTS should be held responsible for that one.
The only gun control I think we need these days, is harsher punishments for gun negligence. If a child gets his parents gun and shoots up the school, the parents should be held for accessory to premeditated murder.
I have to agree with the others here on this issue. I feel having the right to own arms is a very important freedom that shouldn’t be taken away. That doesn’t mean I’m not open to new ideas of gun legislation, but I don’t know how you define “real Gun Control” and I’m OK with the current laws.
Sure….it’s the fault Samuel Colt and all those like him..hey…we may as well blame the Greeks for naphtha and the Chinese for that sulfur compound they developed….human nature, Mr. Humanist…can’t legislate it.
Guns are the second leading cause of death in children. Probably the NRA parents leaving them around.
How is gun control going to stop criminals from killing? They steal those guns, Dude! They don’t buy them at the local gun shop! If we had gun control, the innocent would be defenseless, except for the steak knives in their homes, and all the rotton evil murdering people would have the guns!
The RIGHT to bear arms for We The People was set down by our forefather’s, so we could have a means of defending ourselves against government, it’s in the Constitution. Our forefather’s were pretty smart. They knew what is was like being controlled, and like them, I WILL NOT!
By the way, I am not a gun owner, but I want my right to have one, if I ever deem it necessary.
Totally over due. Why the scared syndrome “if they take my gun I can’t survive”? Got nothing to do with America, Patriotism or God, sickening to say the least.
Nope, and prohibition didn’t stop liquor either. If the laws are “tougher” the people will get them off of the black market. Besides if we banned everything that “killed” then there would be no cars, trains, planes, motorcycles,….etc.. It is the individual and not the gun or car or whatever.
There is already enough gun control. Problem is gun control keeps guns out of the hands of law abiding citizens, but does nothing to keep the criminals from getting them. Stricter penalties for laws already on the books are what we need.
The 2nd amendment is there for a reason. One of which is to keep our own government in check. And if you don’t think armed civilians can stand up against and Army, just look at the lessons in Iraq and Vietnam.
Yes! It should read:
“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed…..and this time we mean it!”
If someone in the malls had been carrying them there would have been 1 person killed in each mall, the only one dead would have been the gunman.
Oh, and as for guns being the #1 cause of death for children, the CDC tallies those numbers and they could all ppl from the ages of 0 to 21 years old! 21 year olds are not kids!
Gun Control is hitting what you are aiming at!!! Honest Law abiding citizens such as myself purchase our guns through legal channels, submit to the required background check etc etc. The criminals DO NOT. Personally I think every state should have a concealed carry law so that LAW ABIDING citizens can arm themselves and be prepared in the event that your life is threatened. My legally carried .40 cal S&W Semi-Auto with 15 rounds, saved my life and resulted in a major change of attitude when a thug tried to do me harm, and I did not have to fire a shot, just looking down the barrell gave him pause.
We should promote SELF CONTROL not gun control. Just think about it for a moment. If the government confiscates our guns, only the law abiding citizens will be without guns. The criminals will still have them because the guns they have are not registered and the authorities don’t know who has what and they have ways of obtaining them from illegal sources. Imagine what kind of society we will have then.
I don’t know about you but I don’t want to be around if that happens.
NO gun control!!!
How is more legislation going to work? The laws we already have don’t address the root problem. Poverty, low education levels, parents not involved in their kids’ lives, etc… Attacking these things will do much more to lower gun violence than writing more laws.
Pope Barley – You say people can’t be trusted with guns. Whats next? are you the type that wants to tell me what I can eat because you know better for me. Or whether I should wear a helmet on my motorcycle(I have good medical and life insurance). What other freedoms would you like to restrict? The right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental right of the citizens of this country.
You bet, a law requiring all adults without felony records to carry a firearm after a mandatory firearm usage and safety class should be legislated on a federal level NOW.
Then death toll would have been
Philly: 1 instead of 4
Utah: 1 instead of 5
Columbine: 2 instead of 14
Bad math? (only for those idiot liberals that live in Alices rabbit hole)
if you were really interested in this issue,and not just venting your spleen on a convenient soapbox,you would have researched the subject and found that there are THOUSANDS of laws concerning gun issues.we do not need more-we need to STRICTLY ENFORCE existing laws-which means NO PLEA BARGAINING AND MANDATORY IMPRISONMENT FOR OFFENDERS!
I also agree with meathook.
Every time stricter gun control laws are enacted,violent crime goes up.Criminals are more likely to commit crime if they know their victims are unarmed.A liberal professor named John Lott,set out to write a book against law abiding citizens having guns.Once Mr Lott looked at crime statistics in States or cities with strict gun control,he found they had much higher violent crime rate than than areas with conceal carry.Mr Lott then wrote the book “Less Guns,More Crime” which dispelled the myth less guns,less crime
You and Obama would love that so the A-rabs could jus kill us in our beds……………………… u r silly..
No. As you said, there is no reason for you to give up your guns. And I am certainly not about to give up mine.
The question is, why all the crime? What is our criminal justice system doing about it? Do we need to replace those people who are unable or unwilling to do something about crime?
Gun control advocates, consider this: Who would control the guns? Do you trust those people? I don’t. You and I know that they (for the most part), are criminals.
Washington DC is a perfect example of gun control in action. It’s the murder capitol of the nation. Is this what we want for the rest of the nation?
It should be against the law for a teenager to shoot people with a shotgun in a mall.
I got an easy solution for you: exterminate the murders, and you exterminate the problem of who’s allowed to own guns or not.
If murders are dead, we won’t have to worry about them controlling guns or not. Get it?
Oh yeah, I forgot, you believe that child molesters and convicted killers deserve rehabilitation using taxpayers dollars! Way to be a hypocrite: complain about murders possibly owning guns and then not wanting to punish them when they actually DO commit a crime.