Do you think that GUN CONTROL LAWS are designed to weaken the rights of.....?

..........the citizen to defend him/herself?


In 1997 a young Tasmanian killed 35 people in a massacre. Soon after that the Government approved laws to desarm all citizens. Just because of a single unfortunate incident we all had to be punished by the Government taking away our right of self-defense.


I hope the citizens of the USA never allow that to happen to them.Do you think that GUN CONTROL LAWS are designed to weaken the rights of.....?
I think politicians have to show that they are ';doing something'; about guns whenever something like that happens, so they do what is easy - pass a law that will bind law-abiding people - but which is utterly ineffective against the kinds of people who carry out these crimes in the first place.





It is wildly frustrating to any thinking person.





We don't need to take Mr. Anderson's deer rifle away, we need to get the illegal $50 guns off the street. That would require relaxing the absurd protections we now afford criminals and all of us against search and seizure.





Cops should be allowed to pat down anyone, in my opinion. They know who the bad guys are, but they're not allowed to do anything about it. So we get patted down once in a while - no different than airport security - and it would cut down gun crime by 90% - none of these stupid gun control laws impacts actual gun crime at all.Do you think that GUN CONTROL LAWS are designed to weaken the rights of.....?
Gun control laws were designed to protect citizens, but the fact is that only law-abiding citizens are going to follow the law. This is true not only for gun control, but for every law on the books. Those who are law abiding will not break the law. Criminals will do as they please, law or no law. Hold-up men still rob stores/banks/convenience stores/etc.; burglars still break and enter homes and businesses; murderers still kill people; rapists and muggers still attack people in spite of laws against all of these actions. The problem isn't with the laws; the problem is with people--people who think that the solution to their problems is with a gun, or any other weapon for that matter.
Inst it people who have the right to defend themselves and dont do so like the ones you mention part of the problem? And then you let our lawmakers establish rules that make it even more against the law to do so and soon nobody knows what and someones kid is laying face down in a pool of blood.


I read an article that in Guatemala a group of Indians grabbed some bald headed members of a gang and after beating them and setting them on fire went to the other gang members and told them that if they dont turn themselves in right now the same fate would be theirs by morn. Something like 200 or so turned themselves in. Peace certainly wasnt the answer this time.
There is a huge flaw in the idea of gun control laws that proponents have never been able to answer: gun control laws only act to disarm law-abiding citizens; criminals will always remain armed. This tends to make gun violence worse, not better. It is no coincidence that cities with the strictest gun control laws also have among the highest rates of homicide, for instance our capital, Washington DC.
no guns no guns no accidents of killing.


If we have a reason to have guns, then yea. I have no reason. It seems that the bad guys need guns. so then the cops need guys.





Guns were for hunting and we don't do that anymore and gosh children killing children......we need no guys or much strictuer gun control
This is the argument that if everybody had guns, there would be no gun crimes. Does that really make sense? I'm not for gun control, but this is a ridiculous argument.
Gun control laws didn't help the citizens of Nazi Germany either, especially the Jews.
Gun control laws are an attempt to save lives from being tragically taken.
Yes, yet another tool in the hands of lawmakers to promote corruption.