Discuss. General Tavern rules apply. (No mudslinging, be respectful, etc.) I'll open with the statement that people should not have guns. No one at all, except the armed forces, and even then, keep the guns on the bases. Cops should carry riot shields and armor instead of guns. If they need crowd control, use Water Cannons. Supporting evidence: the following skit: What's your reason? Setting: A gun shop, modern day. A Customer walks into the gun shop and asks the Shopkeeper, "Hi, i'd like to buy a gun please." The Shopkeeper pulls out an application form and asks the customer "Alright, what's your reason for wanting to buy a gun?" The Customer says "I need one for personal protection." The Shopkeeper nods. "I have just the thing for you, I guarantee you cannot get any more personal protection than this baby right here. What i'm about to show you offers so much protection, it can stop a shotgun shell." The customer, very interested, stares at a full-size Riot Shield, the kind the police use. He scoffs. "That's not what I want, I want a gun!" The Shopkeeper shrugs. "Are you sure? This fine piece of equipment will protect you more than a gun ever will! It's very strong, reinforced titanium and kevlar..." by now, the angry Customer has left. Later, another Customer enters. "Hi, I need a gun." Again, the Shopkeeper clicks his pen and pulls out an application form. "For what reason?" he asks. The Customer hesitates, than says "Hunting." The shopkeeper smiles. "Of course! I love to hunt. Hunting is a wonderful sport. I guarantee that this item will give you the maximum amount of satisfaction you can ever get from hunting! Here, this is the sport at its peak." And he pulls out a Crossbow, complete with crosshairs for better accuracy. The customer shakes his head. "No, I want a gun." he states. The shopkeeper reluctantly puts away the Crossbow. "Are you sure? With a gun, it's so...boring, just pulling a trigger. And it's unfair to the animal, with this you give the deer a chance and have to chase it for up to an hour, just like the Native Americans did back in the day! Unless of course..." He fails to finish his sentence, as the pissed off customer has left in a huff. Later, a third customer walks in. "Hi, I'd like to buy a gun." he says. The shopkeeper holds his pen at the ready. "For what reason, sir?" he asks. The customer glares. "I dont need a reason, read the god **** second amendment "THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS." It's in the constitution you idiot! The shopkeeper merely smiles. "Of course, I have the perfect thing for you. This gun is covered under Second Amendment laws, guaranteed!" And he holds up a 200-year-old, civil-war-era musket, complete with rusty bayonet. The customer shrieks. "No, man! I want a Glock, a shotgun, something better than that civil war crap!" The shopkeeper merely smiles. "I'm sorry sir, please come back when they update the second amendment to include those types of guns. Here, i'll even give you a discount..." the shopkeeper holds out a discount to the enraged customer, who tears it in half and leaves. Fourthly, another Customer walks in. "I really need a gun, now." He says. The Shopkeeper holds his pen and application form ready. "For what reason, sir?" he asks. Instead of stating his reason this time, the Customer snatches the application form and looks at it. There, in the spot titled "Reasons" is a circle for "other". "Other! That's my reason!" the Customer declares triumphantly. The shopkeeper shrugs. "Very good answer sir." he says, while pressing a button under the counter. Two cops arrive at the shop in less than a minute and cuff the Customer. "Hey! What the *PROFANITY* ARE YOU *PROFANITY* GUYS DOING? I'VE DONE NOTHING WRONG!" He yells, almost breaking the glass of the windows. "Actually, you have." The Shopkeeper begins. "the "other" reason, by exclusion of the other reason, can only include wanting to kill or rob someone. Therefore, you were thinking about commiting a crime when you selected "Other" as your reason. Caught you red-handed, trying to buy the tools necessary to commiting a crime. You confessed to it when you selected "Other"! Take him downtown, please." The cops nod and take the Customer away. The last thing he hears from the Shopkeeper is "Oh, and I knew it was you all those times!"
Moral of the story: You do NOT need a gun for a particular activity. In any given activity (And I challenge you to give me a valid, legal activity for which you would need to personally own a gun), there are many other options. Why buy a gun for personal protection when a Riot Shield blocks shotgun shells? Why buy a gun for hunting when the point of hunting (and every other sport) is satisfaction, and since you get more satisfaction with more challenge, and since a crossbow offers more challenge than a gun, you'll get more satisfaction with the crossbow. Why buy a gun based on the Second Amendment when the Colonial-age guns were either giant cannons or black-powder, muzzle-loading Muskets? Did the Founding Fathers have AR-15's, and SPAZ-12 shotguns,And AK 47s, not to mention all the accessories like laser scopes and hollow-point bullets? I dont think so!
The only way you can disprove my argument is to give me a valid, LEGAL activity which requires you to personally own a gun. This excludes Skeet-shooting, because the facility can and should/will provide the gun. Until anyone can do that, YOU DONT NEED A GUN, NO ONE NEEDS GUNS! They're WAY too dangerous and make it too easy to kill someone! Why have something you dont need?
I'm against all kinds of war, violence, torture, rape, gun ownership, mutilation, spying or fighting in common. Citizens carrying guns for their own protections is never and will never be a good idea, but the US is the land of the cowboys and Indians, the so called Wild West, although there are almost no Indians any more. All most all Indian tribes were massacred by the so called forefathers of the US. Think about that. Guns were used to kill and guns will always be used to kill. And with the latest developments it seems the US did not loose its wild side yet...
Owning a gun is what terrorists do. They cause fear by blowing things up, killing people with their guns in cinemas or schools, etc. If you own a gun, you are a potential terrorist! With a gun you have the ability to decide to kill a person or keep him/her alive, remain a potential terrorist or become a true terrorist. Only law enforcement and the army should carry guns, but I guess that won't ever happen in the Wild West...
Citizens carrying guns for their own protections is never and will never be a good idea, but the US is the land of the cowboys and Indians, the so called Wild West, although there are almost no Indians any more. All most all Indian tribes were massacred by the so called forefathers of the US. Think about that. Guns were used to kill and guns will always be used to kill. And with the latest developments it seems the US did not loose its wild side yet...
You should probably consider doing some research before making statements like this.
Owning a gun is what terrorists do. They cause fear by blowing things up, killing people with their guns in cinemas or schools, etc. If you own a gun, you are a potential terrorist!
This is nonsense. Terrorists don't have to own guns. Having a gun does not make you a "otential terrorist". There is no correlation between fanaticism and weaponry.
I think that would be bad if only the law enforcement and army carried weapons....I don't want to say why though....don't want to get carried away in the night....
...Why would you want that? That's frankly just COMPLETELY unjustifiable. Now, Matt. I apologise for nitpicking, but this is the intertubes. Someone else can refute the stuff I left out. Anyway...
The country exists because citizens carried guns. The origin of America was a war fought between the most organized army in the world and families with guns. Plus, people do not only carry guns for protection. Hunting and sport shooting come to mind and neither are bad.
I understand you're refuting an earlier point, but the Britain thing is completely useless as an argument against gun control. One, you're referring to guerrilla warfare. Not viable in modern American cities. Two, the UK is now an ally and even if it wasn't, it's still nowhere near strong enough to attack the US. Three, aircraft. Modern tactics revolve around bombing everything flat, then sending in some troops to mop up the remains. As for hunting, the UK allows that too. However, that's only shotguns for those who have a good reason to use one. Like idiot toffs who enjoy brutally eviscerating foxes using angry dogs. Or farmers.
I'm not really sure why you'd think that liking or enjoying a firearm is THE cause for issue revolving around firearms.
They don't just like them, they're obsessed. Plus, there are lots of highly paranoid people who believe they have the right to shoot anyone they suspect of being a home invader. There's also a ton of hard drugs around. This is not the right social climate for firearms.
The vast majority of the approximately 12,000 annual gun murders and 66,000 non-fatal shootings are committed by people who have no legal right to a gun.
And if guns didn't exist there would be 0 annual gun murders and 0 non-tafal shootings. That's just what they're saying.
