Yes criminals have weapons but I would rather have criminal having the only weapon than both of us having one and end up in a shooting where we all die.
The USA has a problem with guns and more guns isn't the answer but I don't believe the government can make the gun law more strict because too many people would protest, they could however do something about the cause of why people go on a rampage. Remove the triggerhappy culture and stuff like that.
Combine that with the fact that anyone can easily get automatic weapons and well what have you...
May those poor souls rest in peace & may American gun laws restrict civvies from getting hold of firearms
1- yes, and when the criminals are the only one with guns, then its the unarmed people that are doing all the dieing. According to that logic, that means half the number of gun-related deaths, Great Plan! :thumbs up:
2- mmmm, Unless getting ahold of 15 grand is easy, you could have fooled me. Not to mention giving the government the green light to search your "place of business" without warrant or reason, since you are now a licensed armed dealer. Also, the gun used was semi-automatic and even then, the main was pump-action.
3- look up 1 and 2 and keep reading.
First of all, we have a government complex over here in America. Considering what the Brits did and what we did to gain our freedom, we are (generally) not fond of extensive government involvement.
Guns are not the problem. A loaded gun sitting on a table is no more dangerous then a sharpened pencil. In fact, the person next to you is probably more dangerous than the gun on the table. Its not going to jump up and bite you, but the guy next to you certainly could.
It's the way we handle issues over here thats the problem. We have a media that jumps all over stuff like this and sensationalizes it. We have a society that drugs people up rather then treating the problem. The people of our society don't take responsibility for their own actions, rather pass the blame onto something or someone else. We don't nip problems or troubled people in the bud.
It's also the way things are handled in the school environment that causes a lot of these problems. Fist fighting gets instant suspension, even when your defending yourself. These leaves the kid who just got picked on feeling defenseless and more victimized (and this victim mentality is just as great a problem in American society, having to do with responsibility). We cannot hit people, fight, you practically can't even yell at each other anymore. It's like a forest fire, the more you try to prevent the fire, the more underbrush builds up and the worse the actuall fire is going to be when you can't control it anymore.
Not only that, our people have become sheeple, most of Americans have almost no instinct to fight back anymore. Basically, we've lost our backbone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6laUhslOb_g
Ontop of this, being exposed to guns at an early age doesn't happen anymore. I shot and got my first gun at the age of 8. My father is ex-military and he taught me the inside out of the shotgun I had. He tought safety first. At the range, It took me one time of moving the point of the shotgun to the side before I was "taught" how bad that is (A slap upside the head the next time I did it is a great motivator). My father shot a hard plastic cup and showed me what exactly the shotgun would do to someone if they got shot, to emphasize the gravity and importance of a gun. He even had me memorize the nomenclature to my shotgun, with my final line bieing "This gun will kill you".
Without experience around guns, and with movie's and games being a terrible depiction of reality, many kid's don't realize what actually happens when you shoot your friend or classmate with a gun. It's all fun and games, or a way to vent anger, until the kid next to you is bleeding out his mouth and body.
Finally, many of you non-Americans don't get how many crimes and violent crimes get prevented from the mere presentation of a firearm (no shots fired). Here let me dig that number up for you....
Let's see, about a little more than 2 million violent crimes prevented.
....I'm sure there's a quote somewhere about the oppressed not knowing what freedom is until they experience it.
