Right to bear arms.
Wednesday - September 12th, 2007
I can’t believe that people actually try to justify gun ownership. Especially when gun crime is always highest in countries that allow people to buy and own guns.
I can’t believe that people actually try to justify gun ownership. Especially when gun crime is always highest in countries that allow people to buy and own guns.
September 21st, 2007 at 1:30 am
Because Switzerland has such a high gun crime rate, actually. /sarcasm Gun crime will not go away with a ban. The issue is not that simple.
September 21st, 2007 at 1:37 am
Crime as a whole is dramatically lower in Switzerland than the rest of Europe, and whilst yes, gun crime is very low there this does not prove the rule. It is infact a very unusual statistic which is why it is the focus of many studies, to suggest that this one country with gun ownership and low gun crime proves that the two are unrelated is moronic at best. Surely you must understand that in a country where guns are available to buy, gun crime will be higher than in those where guns are banned. It’s just common sense.
November 28th, 2007 at 7:29 am
Yeah for peace keeping Canada! No one wants to shoot people here! I don’t know anyone who owns a gun. Well, not including my dad’s rifle for hunting, but it’s not loaded and hasn’t been for years.
November 29th, 2007 at 10:46 pm
If owning a gun is illegal, then only criminals will have guns. I fail to see how the situation has been improved.
November 30th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
Yes, but theres a difference with self-defense and gun ownership. I can defend my house with a snub-nose revolver, six rounds, low power but still leathal.
I do not need a 17 round military issue Glock, or a M1 or a 12 Guage or morr than 1 gun!
and if my gun takes 3 months to come while a responsible authority checks that I wont kill anyonw and I aint crazy that makes sense
And if I cant buy my guns from a FREAKING GROCERY SHOP that makes sense too
December 2nd, 2007 at 7:13 am
I see no problems with gun ownership, as long as a)You aren’t out buying Ak-47s by the truckload, and b) You are checked out beforehand to see that you aren’t completely loco.
December 10th, 2007 at 6:51 am
My dad owns guns. I live in Canada, but the problem isn’t so much gun ownership, but lax gun laws. The gun laws in America are WAY too lax, but if you have a background check, and if you need permits, and if you need to take a gun safe course, and there are a bunch of hurdles you have to pass in order to acquire it, then it’s definitely more sensible.
December 12th, 2007 at 4:05 am
Banning will do nothing. the most it will do is raise the prices of guns on the black market, which isn’t really much considering drug lords, mobs, and mafias could still afford them. and i’m pretty sure that regular gangs will be able to get some. i really don’t know about american gun laws (guess thats kinda sad), but i’m leaning towards it being a state thing. So maybe better gun laws will help, that’d be really cool. but qualified citizens should still have a rights to arms, seeing as theres still a threat to life and property that wont go away so easily. i do agree thats its stupid to have more than a couple hand guns, at the most, for protection. though i must admit that i’m a bit biased since my dad’s been a police officer my whole life and thus has an obvious right to own one…i guess i’m done ranting now…bye.
December 12th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
I know someone said it already, but I’ve always like the phrase “if ____ is outlawed, only outlaws will own ____.” This can be said for a number of things. I’m not a gun supporter/opposer but I think there are people who deserve to have guns if they want to and there are those who don’t deserve to have them. Who is it up to to decide that? Don’t look at me.
December 17th, 2007 at 2:53 am
It is my opinion that people will always use more force to commit there crime than they expect resistance. For example if I think you have no weapons at all I may bring a bat or a knife. If I think you have a bat or a knife I may bring gun. If I think you have a pistol I’ll bring an assault rifle. etc. I believe escalation of firepower is fairly common in most western societys. Gangsters keep getting more firepower all the time.
I am not from the USA so I may have this part wrong or off. But there is no way to remove parts of US Constitution. They can add ammendments to it but cannot remove obsolete phrases. This fact coupled with a very powerful gun culture who lobbys the government (sanctioned bribing?) leads to the prevalence of guns. The gun laws in the USA are state dependant. Certain states permit you to walk in and buy a gun without a backround check other than a simple check to see official ID and ensure you have no criminal record or outstanding warrants (in that state alone).
January 24th, 2008 at 2:39 am
ok so let me get this straight criminals which buy guns illegaly will have trouble getting guns if they’re made illegal?
March 31st, 2008 at 5:37 am
Sorry, but do these gun supporters notice the statistics? Like, the number of gun deaths in countries where guns are legal as opposed to those where they aren’t? Even if people aren’t going around a-murderin’, because I’m sure the argument of ‘guns lead to violent crime’ has been well and truly gone through, if you’ve got a gun it’s just one more dangerous thing to have accidents with. It’s like having highly sharpened samurai swords in your house. It’s just something else you’ve got to be insanely careful with and which are really too dangerous to be worth whatever you’re after.
April 1st, 2008 at 9:19 pm
It’s one thing to look at “gun crime” in areas with less guns and another to look at total crimes ending in deaths. I’ve never seen any statistic that says banning guns decreasing crime, period. I can’t get a gun? Oh, ok, I’ll use a knife…
And guns are used for things other than crimes. I personally know a lot of hunters. And I definitely feel safer knowing I have a shotgun and a rifle in my house.
And no matter how you feel about gun control, you can’t take away the right to own guns in the US. It’s unconstitutional, even though we don’t seem to hold much stock in that anymore.
I’m all for background checks and the like, but definitely not banning. And look at Washington D.C. Handguns have been banned there for decades, and it has one of the highest, if not the highest, handgun crime rate in the US. Banning did a lot there.
April 30th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
I don´t know about the US, but aside from that, if the guns would be ilegal it´s silly to presume that any “outlaw” would get theyr hands on a gun. It´s much harder to get firearms when there´s not much of them to go around, yes there would be weapon smugling (there is right now) but at least not every mugger would have a gun it´s not like they can build a weapons factory in some basement or grow guns on theyr balcony. And yes crimes would still happen but at least you wouldn´t have the colateral damage… not many baseball bat missfire on the streets or knifes stabbing half a dozen wrong people in a few seconds.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:39 am
In the US, the right to bear arms isn’t about being allowed to own a gun just because. It was put in place in order to have a check against the government itself, so that if they were to encroach upon the lives of all American citizens to a point where a majority of the people aren’t able to live out their lives in an normal manner (eg. another Holocaust etc.) the people would be able to fight back against this. And if you don’t know what a check is look up checks and balances in regards to the US government. I’m not explaining them here.
Also, a study was done here in the US to prove that guns are having a significant effect on the murder rate here. It was found that the murder/violent crime rate has basically stayed the same. Before guns were widely available, people were getting bludgeoned to death at the same rate people are getting shot to death today.
July 6th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
I don’t know much about gunlaws, but I think their definitely should be some sort of background check or restrictions. One has only to look as far as school shootings to see that something needs to be done in some capacity. For instance, that kindergardener, or first-grader or whatever, who came in and accidently shot his classmate. Things like that should not be happening. I agree banning guns entirely is not going to help, but regulations, I think, should at least be considered.