Anyone who says lets change gun laws or ban certain guns, clearly has no idea what they are talking about.
lol if we ban or change gun law's what do you think would happen? Ill tell you it will get worse, just look at all the illegal substances meth, heroin, marijuana and etc all these are illegal but yet they are being flooded onto the streets of every neighborhood in america.
We cant change what comes into this country or what happens to people but have the right to defend it with are right to bear arms, you take these guns away from the people that abide by the law and use them to protect their family and friends and yet the crimanals will still have access to these sort of weapons.
Guns dont kill people, man does. For example if that guy in CT was to have a knife and slit the throats of all those kids, think about how many more he would have killed being silent and taking people out without a single peep. And nobody would have known what was going on.
Sayings guns kill people is like saying spoons made me fat.
Pure sophistry.
First of all, who here said anything about banning guns? That would be impossible, and everyone knows it, even the staunchest advocates of gun
control. You're right that banning something creates a black market for it. It's why there's a black market for illegal drugs, and why there was bootlegging during Prohibition.
But here's the thing: if we care enough about something, we don't let that stop us. We don't allow minors to buy alcohol or cigarettes, so why do we let just anyone buy guns? Hell, in some cases we go even farther. We actually do ban child pornography despite the fact that there will always be pedophiles who want it. It's called doing something instead of giving up.
Second, "change gun laws"? What gun laws? We don't have any, and even those we do have are toothless and easily circumvented.
Third, most people don't think guns are to blame. Almost everyone thinks it's the people who use them irresponsibly.
And yes, if somebody wants to kill someone, they'll find a way. They'll use a knife, or run them over with their car, or bludgeon them with a hammer, or maybe just use their bare hands or poison them. But what really pisses me off about the unbridled availability of guns is the number of people we never get to punish because they take the coward's way out, like the KC player who killed his wife a couple weeks ago. Had he not had a gun, he still could have killed her, but he would have been a lot less likely to kill himself without a gun. In taking his own life, he deprived us of being able to put his ass in jail for the rest of his life, or even putting him to death if that's the law.
It should be at least as hard to get an assault rifle as it is to get a driver's license.
Finally, I just have to take issue with this little nugget:
if that guy in CT was to have a knife and slit the throats of all those kids, think about how many more he would have killed being silent and taking people out without a single peep. And nobody would have known what was going on.
What the eff are you talking about? You really think people wouldn't have noticed somebody walking around slitting people's throats? It's a public place with a lot of people, I think someone would have noticed.
I will now graciously refrain from making any more comments in this thread (at least for a while) as I've more than said my share here today.