It's a lot easier to argue that sensible regulations and restrictions don't work, if we ignore all the places and countries where it does.
Whaaat? So are you saying that even though it is illegal to take guns into these areas, the criminals still do?!?!?! Weird. Yeah, let's tell the criminals their guns are illegal. See how that works.
I say let these Americans have there guns ......eventually after enough of yous have killed each other I wont need to read things like "the answer is more guns" or its my right to protect myself" over here in Scotland I don't need a gun because we aren't allowed them and it's so difficult to get them and the price so high for carrying them means I can send my kids to school and walk about without it even crossing my mind. It's so weird to see such an advanced country living with such medieval laws.....yous are all idiots simple
"I stand behind you in line at the store with a smile on my face...and a gun under my shirt and you are none the wiser, yet you are safer for having me next to you. I won't shoot you. My gun won't pull it's own trigger. It is securely holstered with the trigger covered. It can't just go off. However, rest assured that if a lunatic walks into the grocery store and pulls out a rifle, I will draw my pistol and protect myself and my family and therefore protect you and your family. I may freeze up. I may piss my pants. I may get shot before I can pull the trigger...but, I won't die in a helpless blubbering heap on the floor begging for my life or my child's life. I won't be that victim. I choose not to be. As for you, I don't ask you to carry a gun. If you are not comfortable, then please don't. But I would like to keep my right to choose to not be a helpless victim. There is evil in the world and if evil has a gun, I want one too..." -Brian Cerny
Unfortunately there's a lunatic standing behind u who found it as easy to get a gun as u did and he blew your brains out before u could finish that speach then he blew the person away standing in front of u who u lied to after saying you would protect him......morons
Parsfan your missing the point. Guns are already here, and the bad guys have them. How do you propose to protect yourself? Ask them to put down their guns and call them morons for having one? I think not.
I honestly don't understand the logic behind the gun control argument. Didn't you see what just happened in France, a country with some of the strictest gun control laws on the planet? Bad guys do mass killings in places where they know people won't be armed. Why would you want to create more places where the bad guys know they'll win?
Reading some of these comments makes me cringe... Do you agree or do you not agree that we should stop the mentally ill, as well as the criminally inclined from acquiring machine guns? It's a no-brainer. Assault weapons should be taken out of circulation entirely (as they are useless to the average citizen anyway) and background checks should be expanded so that mass-killers can't get weapons.
There are already laws and restrictions in place, that has not stopped the killers from breaking those laws and commiting mass murders.
The argument is the statistics. Do know that the gun crime rate in France is ridiculously lower than in America? France has 3 times less gun crime than America. In Canada the gun crime rate is 7 times lower than in America. In the UK the gun crime rate is 40 times lower than in America
Nathan, not all gun advocates are against every gun law. Myself being one. Do I think their should be laws against those mentally unstable owning guns? Yes I Do. Is it an answer to our problem? No.
Statistics show that states with the strictest gun control laws also have the highest gun crime rate.
Lol. If strong enough laws were in place then they would not have acquired the weapons. It's that simple. You can't say "I will give a mentally-ill person a gun, but I'll also give everyone else a gun, so it'll be OK". No. You say "I will make sure that no mentally-ill person acquires a gun".
What is a "stronger" law? If something is illegal, how do you make that illegality stronger? Fact- The weapons used in cali were illegal. What adaptation to the laws would have made it harder to do what they did? What adaptation would have stopped them from making what, 12 pipe bombs?