Should Americans give up their guns?

Lil' Miss. Mindy.

Absolutely not. You do not understand the reasoning behind the concept of defending yourself against criminals. This is obvious when you claim Americans should get drugs because criminal have them.

How much sense does that make? What are drugs going to do for me? A gun WILL save me or someone else. If I come face to face with a criminal holding drugs and a gun, and I only have drugs, what the hell am I going to do? Beg him to let me live??!! FU for not understanding such a simple concept. If I had a gun, I could DEMAND that I be left alone and prevent any injury or a crime for happening.

England has in insane amount of assaults with knives. Why? Because they outlaw firearms. So, now they want to ban knives too. What will happen then? They will have an insane amount of assaults with baseball bats. You can ban anything, and people will still commit the crime another way.

The concept of self defense is so simple, anyone who does not accept it has a delusion that borders a mental disability.

N. Cognito

Of course not. The Second Amendment wasn't included for the purposes of hunting or self-defense; those are absolute unstated rights covered in the 9th and 10th Amendments. It's purpose was very specifically to preserve the right of the citizens to protect their liberties from foreign invaders and domestic corrupt government.

We have never needed it, and our guns, more. We certainly don't need to ensure that only criminals who ignore the laws have guns, whether those criminals are drug gang members created by our government's War on (some) Drugs, or the government itself.

J Stabler

What? What about " Right to bear arms". You are joking right?

413th civil affairs battalion

Jim Bo

You cant just buy a gun legally without having to go through some background check, granted there are flaws but this prevents a whole bunch of criminals from buying a gun.

And second even if you outlaw guns your not really helping the problem. Say you do take away all the guns and you cant buy them anymore. Well they would only take away the guns from civilians who have legally bought them cause those are the only ones the government keeps tabs on. And almost all criminals obtain their guns illegally so if you pull all of the guns; the only people who do not have them are the law abiding citizens.

Taking guns away doesn't solve the problem; they tried to do something similar with prohibition and that just created a bigger problem because that caused the formation of the mob.

So in essence taking away guns from law abiding citizens should not be the focus, more over it should be on stopping the criminals from obtaining their guns

NAZGUL

No / / / You can Have my guns / weapons when you pry them from my cold dead hands........ I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6 > > > Carry 6 out of 7 days and let the criminal figure out which day your not carrying

Vet-USAF / NRA Member / Gun Owner For Life

Jimmy Jazz

No. And here's an extreme example of why we should not:

When I was in Afghanistan in '07, villagers always used to complain that the Taliban would come to their villages at night and demand food, shelter, etc... I used to ask, "why don't you fight these fools?" Sometimes people to came to me scared because they worked in a government school or clinic and said the Taliban would come to their house at night and threaten to kill them. They would ask me for an AK-47. I asked them, "I always heard this country was armed to the teeth, what happened?"

The answer to either question was always about how, back in '02 or '03 or '04 they had turned their weapon in to a government turn in program because they thought the Afghan government and the US had finally brought peace to Afghanistan.

The Central Scrutinizer

Look how well your argument has worked in the "war on drugs." When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.

look what happened in Australia.....crime rose ......you have the right to feel the way you want but the majority of Americans are not for banning guns

Burke230

You must be joking right... U.S. citizens have the "Right to keep and bear arms" for a reason. How would people defend themselves?? If the need ever arose, how would Americans ever be able to overthrow higher powers? And if this war, or another, makes its way to our home front, how are we to defend ourselves? There are very good reasons we have guns, and if you're referencing criminals here, if they don't have guns they'll pick up a knife, and if not a knife they'll pick up a rock. Understand?

darrell m

well first off no. second off you must not know much about it, because your argument if not able to be backed up by any facts what so ever. you can not buy a gun anywhere in America no matter who you are is false in every way. thirdly it is our Constitutional right to own guns so that in and of it's self is good enough reason not to ban them.

MAC

read John Locke, or better read The U.S.Constitution 2nd amendment, follow that up by reading the Federalist Papers. For real kicks and giggles read the crime statistics of Washington D.C., New York, and San Francisco. Or hey read what Hitler, Stalin, and George III had to say about gun control (they supported it).

Jagermann

Americans should NEVER give up their guns. What difference does it make what weapon people are killed by. The fact you cannot buy a handgun for self-defense in the UK or Australia is just wrong. Self-defense is an inalienable human right. I'd rather be shot than stabbed anyway. My chances of survival are much higher from getting hit by a tiny 9mm bullet than having my chest ripped open with a knife. Guns also make it much easier for me and other innocent law-abiding citizens to defend ourselves from criminals. An elderly person or petite woman cannot defend themselves without having a gun. That's just how it is. Firearms are the great equalizer that makes no man any more powerful than any other man or woman.

nano

"Why are u people so stubborn? Don't use that tired excuse of, "Oh criminals have guns so we need to arm ourselves" So if criminals had drugs, u would all go out and buy some. Your replies are complete rubbish as u know full well, countries like England where it is illegal to have a gun unless its for a damn good reason, are not armed. Yes we have crime but gun shooting is rare because guns are more harder to get. In America guns are more easy to obtain so if a man who found out his wife just cheated on him can legally get a gun anywhere and then is more likely kill his wife then if it was restricted or banned. Lot of guns use in American high school shootings are obtain legally so ur answers don't add up. There's a link between the availabities of guns and the increase of violent crimes."
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Dude... the gun to drug comparison is invalid at best... Drugs are used SOLELY for bad reasons. Guns are used for hunting, recreation and self defense. Also, the whole school shootings thing is irrelevant because school shootings are highly publicized because of the nature of the event so it sticks out more in your head. The total number of people killed by these over the decades don't even add up to major cities' yearly gun-related homicides. Most of which are illegal firearms. You will NEVER, and I mean NEVER EVER get all the guns out of America, and even if by some rare divine intervention, all did go, just in case you haven't noticed, there are tons of 'esse's' just south of California/Texas etc willing to sell countless numbers of guns to their criminal 'hombre' counterparts just over the fence. Guns will ALWAYS be available. Most criminals get their guns illegally. You see all these cases with legal guns because they are highly publicized due to their nature. Father kills his family wit his legal gun - major news. 300 people shot dead by criminals with illegal guns in NY this year. Doesn't make the news.

P.S. Every country, has rotten laws and corrupt leadership, some just hide it better than others.

gunplumber_462

No we should not, and never will, give up our guns. We have rights here, not privileges that are sparingly doled out and always subject to further restriction by the crown. Our guns and our readiness to use them are what maintain our rights and freedom. You don't have to like it but you WILL have to accept it.

SpellBinder

Americans will not want to give up guns bc guns gives them a sense of empowerment. Besides americans love devilish toys/crap. So no they will not.

rastasue

I don't think that America should give up their guns, but what I do think is that they need to have stricker gun rules. There are way too many guns on the street. Sale of guns needs to be looked at more intently.

tehabwa

I'd be happy if we'd outlaw rapid-fire weaponry (defined not by brand name, but by how many bullets they can fire per second, or some such objective criterion), and make it mandatory for gun sellers to not sell to criminals, crazy people, and children, even at gun shows.

That's a winnable fight; completely outlawing guns isn't. Some people use them to shoot at targets and clay pidgeons. Those people aren't going to give them up.

What I proposed is what the majority of Americans want, and have wanted for decades. It would be doable if the NRA didn't own our government.

JustinFromNJ

@tehabwa, full-automatic firearms are already effectively banned because of the extremely high costs of purchasing one (it is very rare to find one for under $10,000, and many cost $25,000+). The background check involved is also much more extensive than the NICS check for normal firearms purchases. Since 1934 and the passing of the National Firearms Act that regulated full-automatic firearms, only two murders have been committed with legally obtained machine guns. Two murders in over 75 years hardly is reason to change existing laws. It also is illegal for any firearms dealer to sell a firearm without a background check. Even at gun shows, all dealers must run a NICS check for every firearm they sell. The only exception is in a handful of states that allow dealers to sell firearms to persons with valid concealed-carry licenses, but these people have already passed a background check that at the very least is as extensive, and often more extensive, than the standard NICS check. There is no 'gun show loophole'. Reasonable gun control already exists. Convicted felons, the mentally ill, and drug addicts are already prohibited under federal law from possessing firearms. It is already a crime for a firearms dealer to knowingly sell a firearm to a prohibited person. And it of course is already a crime to threaten, attack, or murder someone with a gun. Your 'winnable fight' has already been won. Instead of having tunnel vision and only focusing on an inanimate object, we all should direct our attention to ensuring that people who commit violent crimes are not released from prison after serving only a third of their sentence in order to make room for someone caught with a bag of cannabis. What we definitely don't need is another gun law on top of the over 10,000 existing gun laws in the United States. I own several guns and in a typical month I shoot over 1,000 rounds of ammunition, yet nobody has ever been put in any danger of being shot by them. If guns are designed to kill, then the hundreds of millions of guns legally owned by Americans that have never been fired at, or even pointed at, another human being must surely be defective.

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