Should gun control be more harshly in forced in the US?

CGIV76

My opinion is, you're absolutely right. Either way you're gambling with your life

6.5 x 284

no..it shouldnt be enforced at all..what you say may be true..but without a gun you take your chances on his goodwill....with a gun at least you have a chance....Ill take the "have gun" chance...

Larry

The only people that it would be effective against would be law abiding citizens. How many criminals do you think will give up their guns because it's against the law ?

Joe

Gun control has lead to a lot of the killings, gang violence, and moral decay in our society. It should be abolished in about the same way prohibition was repealed.

mike b

i would rather have the ability to shoot back

pintobns

The best gun control is education.

JOHN G

I definitely believe in gun control!

you should ALWAYS use both hands when firing your handgun!

Nicole W

Guns don't kill people, people kill people. You can ban all the guns you want, but that just means the bad guys will get them on the street illegally and then you have no choice whether to own a gun for protection.

I, personally, hate guns, but I don't believe in taking away one of our constitutional rights, which is the right to bear arms.

But that's just my opinion

k X

Its very simple and it has really nothing to do with government.

Pretend government doesn't exist for a minute. Pretend laws are only paper and not magical.. shouldn't be hard. ;)

You have a right to defend yourself from an attacker. Even if I told you that you did not.. you would do it anyway. If someone is going to kill you, you would fight, kick, and scream. That being said if someone can use a weapon on you.. then you also have the right to be able to use a weapon to defend yourself.

Back in the real world.. when you make a class of people who, by law, can not defend themselves.. then anyone with a firearm becomes a god and can kill at will till some government official comes to stop them.

Gun control is wrong.. its wrong to force people to be defenseless against an attacker. This is the basis for the second amendment.

Voice of Liberty

The truth is that no matter how tight gun laws are, criminals will always employ illegal means to obtain them. The best solution in my opinion is to stop trying to control the types of guns that can be sold (thats proven to have no effect on crime) and enforce more strictly the safeguards already in place which prevents true criminals from legally buying them.

It has been proven that in areas where the percentage of people who legally carry weapons for self defence is high, the rate of violent crime is substantially low. Criminals in most cases only target vulnerable people. A criminal will be less willing to comit a crime against a person whom he/she feels is not vulnerable because there is a good chance that they are armed and can fight back.

Now, the concept of issuing concealed weapons permits is near perfect. Most states require that to obtain such a permit, you go through training on safety and self defense methods. Also concealing a weapon does not make the carrier a target as the criminal is unnaware that he/she is armed. The element of surprise is important when the opportune time arises IF deadly force is necessary to protect your life from a criminal.

As for DREDAY, first, no matter how long a wait you put on getting a gun, a criminal can always go to the nearest hood and pick one up for a couple of bones lickety split. Remember, they are criminals and they will always find a way around the law,
Second, Ill take my chances. A criminal can sue me if I shoot them in self defence, but at least I will be alive to sit in that court room and explain that to the jury.

Dont get Infected

acctually robbers are stupid. in most cases when someone pulls a gun on the robber he goes off running before the first shot is fired. and what is also surprising is the fact people look at the death toll from guns but they dont look at the death toll from doctors who had accidents and killed some patients. more people die from doctors having accidents then people do from gun accidents. and i do agree with you that it should be harder to buy a gun in the US. i went to a gun show and a guy was trying to sell me a AK-47 before i said 2 words. so i agree they should make it harder to get a gun so we can atleast still have the right to bear arms but make it harder for the idiots who choose to abuse that right

*****

The only kind of gun control the U.S. needs is the kind where you can hit what you are shooting at. Guns are neither good nor evil, that lies in the hearts of man.

fr_chuck

If he is breaking in your home and has a gun, you are normally dead anyway, A weapon in your home along with other security is a great thing.

The gun control needs to be honest people with gun, and the control and prison for people who should not have guns, or have them and use them in crimes.

But you are right, if the person who is breaking in has a gun, he should go to jail maybe 20 years automaticly nothing a judge can do, then there would be less bad people with guns on the street

Rock Hunter

There are a lot of lies out on the subject.
Guns have helped far more than they have harmed. They have stopped more crime than contributed to.
We already have tens of thousands of gun laws, more will not help. We must enforce the laws we have and disbar liberal judges responsible for letting dangerous criminals out of jail.

dougbarker25

Okay here is the thing, you cant relate guns to gun related crimes. it is not the gun that kills it is the person with the gun, to answer your question no i think the laws are just fine the way they are now. Like the whole VT incident, it wasnt the fact he bought the gun(which he did legally) it is the fact the system failed not the law itself

Tim

I would have to go with NO we should not. If a person breaks into your home and you are unarmed, what do you think that person is going to do? Take your things and let you go? I do not think that they would. You would stand a better chance being armed. I have been robbed while I was at home in the early morning hours. Speaking from experience, when the potential robber only heard the action of a pump shot gun, he turned and ran. Be very careful with the thought of gun control, the criminals will not give theirs up. Most of the guns that they have were not bought lawfully. With the back ground checks and the waiting period, I believe that is a step in the right direction. All that needs to happen is to ensure that the person purchasing the gun, is the person that ends up with the gun. I am not sure how though. I will try to find the link of a magazine for you to read about the people that have protected them self with a gun. Alot of the stories are about the elderly defending them self and their home.

Zoe

Gun control has never worked. People who are not suppose to have guns just ignore that law and obtain guns anyway

Pablo

No , We should educate the users and regulate machine guns.

Mike T

Although statistics show that gun(s) in a home are far more likely to be part of an accident than protecting the homeowner, I would rather own my weapons but make absolute sure they are secure.

All my weapons have two forms of security. I know that dosen't help me when I wake up to someone with an already loaded gun to my head.

With that said, I support the second amendment. I'm am FAR from ever becoming an N.R.A. member cause I dont believe that we need weapons that hold 15+ rounds and are full auto. Also because half of the money you donate to the NRA goes to gun Lobbyists and the conservative republicans (boooo!)

I dont know if I answered your question at least you get an opinion

DREDAY

I think that it should take more than a lunch hour to get a gun, that's for sure! And to your next question, a robber these days is more likely to take you to court and win for your shooting him during robbing your house.

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