Topic: What's your opinion of gun control? - page 204. (Read 450482 times)
honest citizens would be defenseless against the criminals that are still getting all the guns they want.
Not based in the US, it seems to me that all these mass shootings tend to happen in places where there is gun control. I think it is quite obvious, if someone is going to rob you or your home or try to shoot up a place they will probably do this in a place they know there are no guns for people to defend themselves and stop these things after the first shot.
people stab people are we going to ban cutlery?
I have not been affected by guns so this is just my opinion from the outside.
people stab people are we going to ban cutlery?
I have not been affected by guns so this is just my opinion from the outside.
Can children keep guns and carry it to school? Can law abiding citizens carry the guns to malls? What if you are on streets and suddenly someone starts shooting? These are the most cases happening in America that whole world is watching.
most of the shootings were done with hunting rifles or shot guns. In almost all of the cases the person had the guns illegally, so no law would have stopped them anyway
Everyone should have guns. You never know when the zombie apocalypse will happen.
Violence is what should concern people not the tool used in the violence. Yes ban guns and shootings decrease but violence not
Not based in the US, it seems to me that all these mass shootings tend to happen in places where there is gun control. I think it is quite obvious, if someone is going to rob you or your home or try to shoot up a place they will probably do this in a place they know there are no guns for people to defend themselves and stop these things after the first shot.
people stab people are we going to ban cutlery?
I have not been affected by guns so this is just my opinion from the outside.
people stab people are we going to ban cutlery?
I have not been affected by guns so this is just my opinion from the outside.
Can children keep guns and carry it to school? Can law abiding citizens carry the guns to malls? What if you are on streets and suddenly someone starts shooting? These are the most cases happening in America that whole world is watching.
Not based in the US, it seems to me that all these mass shootings tend to happen in places where there is gun control. I think it is quite obvious, if someone is going to rob you or your home or try to shoot up a place they will probably do this in a place they know there are no guns for people to defend themselves and stop these things after the first shot.
people stab people are we going to ban cutlery?
I have not been affected by guns so this is just my opinion from the outside.
people stab people are we going to ban cutlery?
I have not been affected by guns so this is just my opinion from the outside.
Everyone should be able to carry as long as they don't have mental illness or are a criminal. Its proven that you are safer if you carry a gun, you can prevent crimes.
Guns are especially dangerous in the hands of people who don't know how to use them (i.e., kids and teenagers) as well as those who are mentally ill and/or have a temper problem.
I think the villains that using gun are people that know how to use gun. It just depend on what the purpose of them to have a gun. Sometimes if you feel be threatened by bad people, so you need a stuff that avoid you from that situation, and imo the best way is use gun. You don't need to put your bullet into your gun, just pointed and I guess the people won't disturb you again.
The guy was/is a lunatic and it is dreadful that he managed to get a weapon. I would prefer that he wasn't able to get a gun, instead of giving lots of people guns to shoot each other in this kind of case (I doubt it would have made a difference as it was a Political Youth camp he attacked, probably not somewhere where people would be armed anyway)
This is why I have been saying all along that the gun controls affect only the law-abiding population. Even in a low-crime country such as Norway, the perpetrator was able to procure fire-arms without much difficulty.
And you should remember that policemen were present on the Utøya island at the time of the attacks. But even they were not armed, and as a result Breivik had a free run, to kill anyone as he liked.
I am a European. I cannot understand why Americans want to have so many people owning guns.
The biggest massacre involving guns happened in Europe. It occurred in a country, which is having one of the toughest gun control laws (Norway) in the world. A lunatic called Anders Behring Breivik was single-handedly able to mow down a total of 77 people, and the policemen present at the scene could not do anything, as they were not armed.
It wasn't that the police present couldn't do anything, he had set off a bomb in the capital city to throw the police off, then he attacked the children on an island that couldn't be quickly reached.
The guy was/is a lunatic and it is dreadful that he managed to get a weapon. I would prefer that he wasn't able to get a gun, instead of giving lots of people guns to shoot each other in this kind of case (I doubt it would have made a difference as it was a Political Youth camp he attacked, probably not somewhere where people would be armed anyway)
I think people just want to have the right of owning guns rather than actually owning them just to make them feel they are in total control. Sadly, freedom is a self exercised myth.
Gun control in many countries may also be why the women are more oppressed than in the US.
Guns are the great equalizer.
Guns are the great equalizer.
Guns are made for one purpose, and that purpose is to kill.
I believe that guns are not weapons, they are tools. How they are used is up to the person holding it.
Guns are especially dangerous in the hands of people who don't know how to use them (i.e., kids and teenagers) as well as those who are mentally ill and/or have a temper problem.
Gun control will not stop violence because a violent person doesn’t need a gun to be violent.
After the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, support for gun control increased dramatically.
Generally in America, the support for gun control has outweighed the support for gun rights.
Are gun control laws constitutional?
What would be your ideal set of laws regarding firearms?
this is an interesting argument, some times avoided, some country allow to easy to access to weapons, there should be more restriction, in USA it is so easy that everyone can buy one of those gun, they often call it a far west for good reason, i think that there can't be good gun control, because this things are born to kill and when you face the death you will do everything to survive, and your control will not be 100%, your focus is only on your survival nothing else, so it is easy to hurt someone that ahs nothing to do with your dispute, especially if it happen in pubblic, like in the usa or russia
Guns are dangerous, specially for kids and inexperienced people.
In America, the right to possession and use of arms is a constitutional right but the rest of the world does not agree with such thinking.
Although almost everyone in America is armed, they didn't become safer and didn't reduce crime, just the opposite.
I think that security is not achieved by arming of the population, but with education and developing a culture of cooperation and dialogue.
Great example of this are Scandinavian countries.
So, we really need gun control otherwise our security will be further compromised by armed men who too easily use weapons either to defend themselves or attack the others.
In America, the right to possession and use of arms is a constitutional right but the rest of the world does not agree with such thinking.
Although almost everyone in America is armed, they didn't become safer and didn't reduce crime, just the opposite.
I think that security is not achieved by arming of the population, but with education and developing a culture of cooperation and dialogue.
Great example of this are Scandinavian countries.
So, we really need gun control otherwise our security will be further compromised by armed men who too easily use weapons either to defend themselves or attack the others.
My opinion on gun control rests differently with different countries.
The rules and requirements of every country is different, so are the needs.
The rules and requirements of every country is different, so are the needs.
Gun 'control' affects the law abiding people. It also affects those who are not law abiding. So, gun control does create a barrier to owning this kind of lethal weapon. Sure one can find a merchant who will sell a gun illegally but you need to find such a person.
The drive to own a gun is similar to the "arms race" between nations. The house robber down the street has a knife. I had better get a sword. Now that I have the sword, the house robber decides he needs a hand gun. It should be easier to obtain legally than illegally. At least that will make it a deterrent for robbing rather than a tool for robbing.
Gun control slows down the arms race between individuals in society. There are other defensive ways you can protect your home. One is to have multiple locks on the door. An alarm system so the robber doesn't have the element of surprise. Avoid indicating that you are not home. Don't announce to the whole world when you are going on vacation.
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The drive to own a gun is similar to the "arms race" between nations. The house robber down the street has a knife. I had better get a sword. Now that I have the sword, the house robber decides he needs a hand gun. It should be easier to obtain legally than illegally. At least that will make it a deterrent for robbing rather than a tool for robbing.
Gun control slows down the arms race between individuals in society. There are other defensive ways you can protect your home. One is to have multiple locks on the door. An alarm system so the robber doesn't have the element of surprise. Avoid indicating that you are not home. Don't announce to the whole world when you are going on vacation.
sdp
I see gun control as disarming the law obeying people (and keep the criminals armed, as they don't care about gun control), for eliminating the ability of citizens to resist/challenge the state/tyranny.
I am a European. I cannot understand why Americans want to have so many people owning guns.
The biggest massacre involving guns happened in Europe. It occurred in a country, which is having one of the toughest gun control laws (Norway) in the world. A lunatic called Anders Behring Breivik was single-handedly able to mow down a total of 77 people, and the policemen present at the scene could not do anything, as they were not armed.
Different countries and different regions have different needs. In Texas where the distance between settlements is high you need something to defend. But in New York where people are close by the need of guns is not that important.
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