Do you believe in Gun Control?

Question

I want to know if you believe in gun control or not, and please tell me why you do or why you don't.

I myself am completely against gun control and can't stand that so many people are for it.

Answer 1

I am for gun control but practice makes perfect the more you use a gun the more control you will have.

Answer 2

A little sensitive about pregnancy, are we?

I am in favour of gun control because I see it working in Canada.

We actually function well without guns - it's not the anarchy that the NRA postulates without a gun in every house.

An I am bothered by the fact that the US now kills 2500 people EVERY MONTH ( that's a 9/11 disaster every month) because of its fascination with guns.

Many of those killed are children ( 1 every 8 minutes now).

I can't remember the last time I heard about a child being accidentally killed in Canada, but it has been years.

Answer 3

If there is a gun any where near me I want to be the one in control of it.

Answer 4

“The second amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed. Where the government refuses to stand for re-election and silences those who protest ; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once."

Alex Kosinski (Federal appeals judge & immigrant from Eastern Europe)

"The right of self-defense is the first law of nature. In most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Whenever standing armies are kept up, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited; liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction."   Justice George Tucker, Virginia Supreme Court, 1803

"The Constitution shall never be construed ... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms ..."

Alexander Hamilton

...We do not need any more gun laws. What we need is more personal responsability passed to our children and stop blaming others.

Answer 5

No I dont believe in gun control... We ourselves can control it not the govt!  People tend to forget that guns DONT kill people ... PEOPLE kill people.... I own many but I also know how to use them, take the needed safety courses and I am RESPONSIBLE

Answer 6

Gun control means using both hands.

I have gun racks in every one of my vehicles, my jeep and my Mercedes.

Guns do not kill people people kill people and before any of you dumb asses start in on the whole "yeah people kill people with guns" bullshit need I remind you people also kill people with bare hands so should we outlaw hands? People kill people with cars, should we outlaw cars?

Get my drift?

My man and I have both purchased several guns from gunshows and we had to show ID and we went through a background check on the spot. Because we both passed we both left with our guns.

Answer 7

Yes, I completely believe in gun control. But it has to be enforced, not the feel-good type of gun control that we have in the US.  For example, we made it illegal for felons to own guns, but in half the states anyone can walk into a gun show and buy a gun without even showing ID, let alone a background check.  Now you tell me why US gun control never worked.

Canada, Australia, the UK, and most other developed countries have strong gun control, and much lower crime rates than we do.

Answer 8

I'm for gun control, because I believe it's my right to bare arms and protect myself, my family, and my property.  Banning guns wouldn't do much good anyway, law abiding citizens would follow the law (even if they didn't like it) and people could still get them illegally, easily.  

Besides, a gun once saved my Uncle's life.  Having one prevented his house from being robbed and quite possibly his family being injured.  (No, he did not shoot anyone)

The fact is, it's the person that kills, not the gun itself.  It's like trying to ban kitchen knives because they kill so many people.  

Answer 9

yes i do believe in gun control.

young children are getting guns, even buying them off the streets.

and i think anyone that needs a gun to defend themselves (unless a psychopath is after them) are cowards

Answer 10

Every state that has restricted gun ownership has seen crime skyrocket. Every nation that has passed gun control has seen crime rates do the same. Australia's crime rate is nearly triple what it was 20 years ago and it started rising dramatically, immediately after the guns were confiscated.

England has never seen a murder rate as low as it was immediately prior to the great gun collection more than 20 years ago.

Switzerland however, has a requirement for every able bodied male to provide military service and retain an automatic weapon in the home. They have one of the lowest crime rates in the world.

It is normal for people subjected to a traumatic event to lash out and demand some type of compensation. That compensation might take the form of money, revenge, or a law passed to make them happy. The problem is that people are not rational during these periods and they make so much noise (the squeaky wheel) that the politicians (who live by greasing the squeaky wheel) happily pass laws that have their names attached.

So we have people who are irrational pushing laws that are irrational. That is Gun control.

Educate your children, teach them that the gun is a tool, a tool that can kill, just like a hammer, a car, a knife, an ice pick. All can kill and just as quickly as a gun. Dead people do not care what killed them.

Education is the key!