Why aren't guns being banned?

bashfulmonkey

Hillbilly rednecks.

Reported for insulting my belief

Did you know guns were stolen too?????

No guns should not be banned.

more people are killed in car accidents and i don`t see cars being banned any time soon

six3x

I've heard of this thing called the "Constitution" and that might have something to do with guns not being banned. Just a hunch.

jays_mom

they are banned to felons, but when people sell them on the streets what can you do?

Common Sense

Alcohol was banned once.

It was called 'Prohibition'.

Read about it.

N. Cognito

Yeah; it worked for the Third Reich.

Ever heard of the Constitution?

fr_chuck

Yes right after they ban drinking, and all cars and the such.

Guns are not the issue, it is the person not the weapon.

If guns were banned the bad guys would still have them, look at illgal drugs, if more good guys had and carried guns, this would not happen

John W

Because of the gun lobby, that is never going to happen. Besides, most of the criminals have guns that are not licensed. If guns were banned, besides the police, who would be left with guns?

yetti

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO.......I have said it before and I will say it again....banning guns will do no good...they only thing guns will do is keep the honest people honest.....criminals don't follow the rules, so make more rules for them to follow will do no good....guns don't kill people, the lunitics behind them do....I can understand making assult rifles illegal, but no my hunting rifle of shotgun....

jeremy

that is the conclusion that is meant to be made. it was probably another black op. if one of those students had a gun, THE MURDERER WOULD HAVE BEEN SHOT BEFORE HE KILLED SO MANY PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!

The second amendment is an UNALIENABLE RIGHT.

Are you with the government or the new world order, or the hillary clinton campaign?

Old Nick

No.
Hitler and Stalin banned guns as soon as they gained power. If you banned guns in America it would lead to dictatorship.
The government should fear the people, that way they will never be able to opress them.
We need guns to defend ourselves from criminals who seek to steal, rape and murder, as well as outside enemies seeking our destruction.

perrrfection

I am a Democrat and I have to say gun ban will NOT stop criminals from getting guns! It will only prevent law abiding people from protecting themselves. Do you think criminals go to Wal-mart to get their guns? NO they get them off the streets!

diva

if this was a perfect world all weapons would be done away with it.. but its not, and people have right to bare arms even if I disagree with that.. I think we should focus more on the crazy weirdo who wears the trench coat in the middle of spring, or the young adult who says stuff about death and murder but yet people look the other way and then say " I knew there was something strange about that person, just couldnt put my finger on it" after the fact

yupchagee

No.
1) 2nd amendment.
2) If some of the law abiding citizens had been armed, lives could have been saved.

Snagelfritz

Why? Heck, people can make a gun, it not that hard. If, you ban guns, that just another way to oppress the innocent from defending themselves against a crook who will make his/her own gun. They not care if the gun is legal.

elmar66

Too bad you never read the Amendments to The Constitution. You wouldn't have to ask such an uninformed question.

The answer is MORE guns not less guns. None of the gun control laws affect the crimininals, because CRIMINALS don't follow the law!!!!

Resident Heretic

Guns shouldn't be banned, but neither should capital punishment for someone who commits mass murder with a gun. And it should be death by firing squad.

DOT

NO, I want the right to protect myself in my own home. And yes, I have a conceal carry permit.

Lion of Judah

No..because if you did, the only ones who would be affected is the ones who honestly own them.
A Gun ban would not be affective, The law or the police would not be able to stop them, we can't stop shipments of Cocain coming into this country, so how in the heck are we going to stop Guns, when it is far easier to smuggle guns.

people who want to ban Guns are people who are looking for a short term solution to a long term problem that will not work.

The problem is our society, and how people are raising their children.

banning guns is like placing a cheap bandaid on a gushing wound, it will not work.

Princess of the Realm

2nd Amendment of the Bill of Rights:

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.

pmnmaster

because that was one fluke. most people who carry guns don't go on a shooting spree. most of them never even have to shoot.

in the constution it says that we can have guns...but only to fight off the government. check the constution.

Ken

They always say that making guns illegal would only prevent honest law-abiding people from having guns.

Blue Nose

give it time mate. the govenenment just does'nt go"oh there is bad thing that happened today. we now put an bad on them starting at 3 mins past six tonight."
these things take time. and don't forget...... banning gun does'nt stop gun crime just look at where i come from(uk)
there is still gun crime here to even with the gun ban.

sarge927

Brilliant, Einstein -- if you take guns away from law-abiding citizens, who's left? The criminals, who don't give a rat's @$$ about anyone else in the first place, or the police and the military. Do you have any idea how easy it would be for the military and the police to band together, rise up, overthrow the government, and declare a state of martial law if citizens weren't able to exercise their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms? No, the answer is very simple: For starters, you need to actually PUNISH people who commit crimes with guns (instead of coddling them in institutions where they get free cable, free access to the Internet, free workout equipment, free meals that are required by law to be better than the food our troops in Iraq are eating right now; you get the idea). The next step is to prohibit people who obviously don't have the brains or the maturity to handle firearms safely (like you) from having them.

h h

Yeah get rid of the guns and then there wont be violent deaths any longer right?

They dont have guns in the US prison system, people get murdered anyhow.

Most people have the ability to make bombs and other explosives that they could make out of normal household products. All you have to do is go on the internet and learn how to mix them properly and make an explosive that when placed in a populated area would kill or maim alot of people.

In the Oklahoma City bombing they used fertilizer and diesel fuel.

Guns are not the problem, people are. You want to ban people too? When someone wants to kill people they find a way to do it.

Take guns away and they will just come up with some other way to do it.

I guess you could keep banning things until we cannot have any sort of freedom at all.

Reasonably intelligent people know this fact, I guess the problem is that the world if full of people that are not reasonably intelligent and they dont look at the big picture.

If you banned guns then those who follow the law would no longer have the ability to buy them, thats it. Those who wish to break the law would still find new ways to kill, or they would just get guns in an illegal fashion.

So basically you would be taking the rights away from those who follow the law, the criminal element would still be able to obtain them, or they would still find a way to inflict death without them.

Its amazing to me how quick people in this country wish to give their rights up to the government.

If someone got killed with a dinner fork, would the activists try to ban them too!?

Red

If you could be 100% certain NO ONE had a gun. Guns are constantly smuggled in, never registered etc. How long do you think it would last until the next shipment was smuggled in? 1 day? 2? Banning guns is just not realistic in this day and age.

Seriously, do you think if a law were passed to ban guns, all the criminals would say "OMG, I have to turn this in, it's illegal" Instead, think about this, how long do you think that creep would have been able to shoot if everyone carried a gun? I'd bet 5 minutes before someone got him.

Besides, why is the gun the focus here? It is an inanimate tool, totally ineffectual without a hand on the trigger. If it wasn't a gun, maybe this guy would have run into a crowd with a knife, or a club, explosives, or a semi truck? Again all tools in the hands of someone dangerously mentally unbalanced, and just as capable of murder. So where do you stop disarming people? Sorry, no more metal cutlery, you might hurt someone? Sorry, no more cars to prevent drunk driving deaths? Sorry, you have to wear foam gloves so you don't beat someone? It's the person, not the tool.

Losing family and friends suddenly is excruciatingly painful no matter how it happens. I deeply sympathize with the families and their loss.

I'm not a gun owner, and I would love to get weaponry out of the hands of these nuts, but I just don't think there's a hope of that ever happening.

liberalsrworthless

If they were banned, would you be the one at my door to take mine? Because whoever it is, plan on not only getting shot, but killed.

desotobrave

Banning guns would lead to more violence. Look at the UK and Australia.

Additionally, the 2nd Amendment guarantees my right to bear arms.

Hey, maybe they meant bare arms?

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