What are the views of the British public on americans right to carry a gun?

Elliot Ness

I agree with hendo, I should be able to defend my family and property with what ever means available or necessary. I don't think people should carry guns in public, but for home protection, absolutely. As far as I'm concerned, the moment someone breaks and enters into someones house, they are invading someone else's rights and liberties, therefore their rights are automatically forfiet. Break into my house, be prepared to die, because you can still own a shotgun in the UK, and at close range, that is far more devistating than a .38.

Leogirl0804

What does the British views matter one way or the other? it's not like we are going to change anything.

i hate hippies but love my Jesus

I am from America, and gun control makes no sense.

If you make a law for guns to be illegal, who will have guns?
People who break the law.

Who is the LAST person you want to have a gun?
People who break the law.

Now you have a society where criminals have guns, and they know law-abidings citizens do not. See a problem here?

BRI

The country is awash with guns and you can buy them freely, but you cant drink beer till you're 21, strange how they rate alcohol control over gun control.

curious_One

I'm glad the British are weighing in on this considering our forefathers left there to come here for freedoms.

andrew900837

I think it's more the Americans attitude to gun ownership than the laws. But the attitude is probably reflective of the laws.

It is a worrying looking at the statastics considering Amercian is the leader by miles for shooting each other.

I think in Canada per person there are more guns than in America but the Canadians manage not to kill each other in record numbers.

old know all

Fine by me. It keeps the numbers down and helps to prove Darwin's Law.

goonern014

2 months ago i didnt see any sence in it , you had the shootings in that school and it seemed pointless to have guns available to the many .but when you look into it you have an ammendment that says you have the right to bare arms.

the patriots act has already made half the constitution null and void , at the moment theres being alot of attacks on different parts of the constitution and this is very dangerous ,the rights of the people of america are being slowly and incrementally taken away , there trying to do this here and have succeeded in some areas .freedom of speech is being attacked at the moment still under the title "the war on terror".

i feel its important you should keep the right to bare arms and protect yourself especially if/when they create another false flag event and impose martial law on the American people , then the people that disagree with the government (the people that have been documented and the people that speakout) will be locked up in the 800 FEMA camps that have been built all over the states that can hold 20,000 people each ,sadly all in plain view yet hopefully people will wake up and it wont get to that.

if you look past the propaganda its quite odvious the forefathers had the right ideas and were not watered down human beings like us ,they created the bill of rights for a reason and to burn it like is being done now in plain view is a disgrace and will only end in enslavement on a world wide scale this is not a hate america speech like you guys have been brain washed to think ,because this is happening world wide yet america is where if it does will kick off,conspiracy theory ? sadly quite the oposite .heres a link http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=786048453686176230&q=terrorstorm to a docu/film i wouldnt say agree with all of it but watch it with an open mind and try and do a little reasearch on what you dont agree with.

"for people to give away necessary libertys for temporary securitys deserve neither liberty nor security." Benjamin Franklin.

Hendo

I believe that everyone should have the right to protect their family and property from any potential threat, I also believe that Tony Martin was correct in his action of shooting a burglar, but I draw the line at allowing the carrying of guns in public by the public, although I do believe that our police should be fully armed.

trucker

i think i am with hippi on this, in britain all the guns are easily in the possesion of the bad guys, outher than them we are all unarmed, i think we will need them soon but get them.

Xmortis

I think it's a little backward, what with giving people weapons to make the country safer. (All be it from one another)

Karen

If Americans have the legal right to carry guns, then who am I to comment,its their country,their laws............end of story.Nothing to do with me!!

jamesthedramaking

I think it is correct, I think they should have it in this country, actually in all countries, that way no one will get out of line

londonlee33

i hate hippies answer is pure sh#t how comes england doesnt have as much gun crime then ,{muppet}

mnaagar

Gun laws in the US seem like a form of madness, especially whenever a US school shooting is reported in Britain. The initial idea of enabling militias to be armed seems to have mutated into the right for anyone and everyone to own a gun

Whilst I understand the need for such arrangements in rural areas, where the law may be many miles away, it makes no sense to allow anyone to carry concealed weapons in cities. It just ups the ante in any confrontation and a much larger number of gun related deaths are the result

stringbeanscoffee

First I will confess to being English and married to a Texan. I have visited Texas and gun loving relatives and so this will reflect my view point.
Its culturally strange, weird and alien to us Brits.
Culturally it is generally more normal to have guns around for recreational hunting in the States, for which personally if the kill is eaten, I have no problem with.
However my over arching view is the the carring of hand guns for protection of persons or property based on fear of attack is counter productive, as this feeds fear which breeds fear, and therefore creates an escalating cycle of fear.
It doesent matter who started it or who the aggressor is, what matters is who is going to stop the cycle of fear, violence and intimidation, who is man enough too?
The question for me is not one of rights but of responsibilities.

sharon

not right because that means any idiot could carry a gun

Dr Watson (UK)

How can anyone defend the right for Tony Martin to shoot a young burglar in the back and kill him? Young burglar guilty of theft, Tony Martin, murder. This was so so out of order.

keny

If Americans want guns it`s up to them , but i`m glad we are not allowed to have them here ,and i`m also glad that normal police don`t have them either .every timed armed police get involved it seems they shoot the wrong person .we`re safer as we are without them

et tu brute

I personally think it's time you changed your constitution.
You no longer live in the wild west and should not have the right to bear arms. The more guns in a society then the more chance people will be killed by them.

If i had a gun in the house it would be a cause to be scared NOT to feel safe.

1 kidney boy

There is not one study, not one. That suggest if guns were illegal suddenly there would be criminals shooting everyone.

Most westernized country have strict gun control laws, and most of them have extremely lower percentage of gun related deaths than the US.

America has one of the looses gun control policies in the industrialized world and we have the most gun deaths, do people not think they are connected.

Ivo V

Let me put it in this sort of retorial logic

- Why would you need to carry a gun?

General reply?

- Self-protection...

Indeed, from that other dope with a gun... Common, it ain't rocket-science...

Jude

Senseless and outdated, from a time when America was a colony and not an independant nation.

PomOnTour

Sickening

diva

gun owners should be shot...

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