Gun Control Topic

[Sikeliot]

Some guns should be not allowed for civilians. I can understand a hand gun to protect yourself, but no one needs a machine gun.

This I agree with. No one who isn't in the military or law enforcement needs automatic weapons.

[Útrám]

Some confusing poll options there. The right to bear arms and gun control is not necessarily mutually exclusive.
For example, the Americans have their second amendment, but their government has passed various laws meant to regulate gun ownership, such as preventing felons and the mentally-ill form owning guns.

[Damião de Góis]

Like a spear or longbow could protect you from a wild bear, and it would be extremely hard to get the close to a deer with a spear, they have an acute sense of hearing.

Don't they call it a sport? Where is the fun in shooting wild animals from distance?

[arcticwolf]

Don't they call it a sport? Where is the fun in shooting wild animals from distance?

I agree with you on hunting, if you are really hungry and that's the only option you have to obtain food I'm ok with it. Hunting because you like the thrill of the kill to me is an unmistakable sign of a troubled mind.

I don't agree with you on gun ownership though!

One out of two is not too bad!

[Blackout]

I agree with you on hunting, if you are really hungry and that's the only option you have to obtain food I'm ok with it. Hunting because you like the thrill of the kill to me is an unmistakable sign of a troubled mind.

I don't agree with you on gun ownership though!

One out of two is not too bad!

Good doggy! Have a bone :

[rashka]

Get rid of all the guns NOW. Pass the damn law!! People must hand in their guns. This is the only way to stop any more of these these blood thirsty psychopathic acts. Shooting sprees in America are always going to happen, at the shopping mall, cinema, high school, etc. There is not a month that passes when I don't hear about a breaking news story of another shooting spree.After each massacre, we say never again, but it always comes back in one way or another. Put a control on the guns now.

[Svipdag]

Concerning the black market: The weapon of choice of the organized crime gangs of the 1920's and 1930's was the Thompson sub-machine gun.
It has NEVER been legal for civilians to own this firearm. However, most of the gangland killings of the Prohibition era were committed with it. Obviously, criminals had no difficulty in obtaining it illegally.

My father owned a Colt Model 1911 .45 ACP automatic which ultimately descended through the family to me. I prefer revolvers, so I traded it to a friend of mine who quickly discovered that it was a "patchwork quilt" of
parts bearing different, ,or no, serial numbers belonging to different versions of that pistol, one made for the US Army and the other made for the British.

Clearly, assembling this hodge-podge from stolen parts was a spare-time project for some Colt employee. I have been assured that this sort of thing was not and probably still is not uncommon.

Laws have no effect on the black market in firearms. Any criminal who wants a firearm to commit a crime can get one on the street the same day.
Laws deter only the law-abiding citizen ! More and stricter gun-conrol laws do not deter criminals from acquiring firearms. they only make it more difficult for law-abiding citizens to protect themselves.

Then what is the answer ? AN answer is to make the use of a firearm in the commission of a crime a crime in itself carrying severe penalties. I said SEVERE, not a slap on the wrist.


"BONIS NOCET QVI PEPERCERIT MALIS" - PVBLILIVS SYRVS

[Graus]

Get rid of all the guns NOW. Pass the damn law!! People must hand in their guns. This is the only way to stop any more of these these blood thirsty psychopathic acts. Shooting sprees in America are always going to happen, at the shopping mall, cinema, high school, etc. There is not a month that passes when I don't hear about a breaking news story of another shooting spree.After each massacre, we say never again, but it always comes back in one way or another. Put a control on the guns now.

From my cold, dead hands...

[rashka]

From my cold, dead hands...

Are you trying to tell us something?

[Loki]

Fact of the matter is that all of these mass shootings seem to come from people with legal firearms.