gun control laws

[rob19]

Alcohol and guns are a bit different. I would bet that more people drink than own guns, especially assault rifles. Weapons are not something that is consumed and in need of replacing. While the ammunition certainly is, the times you would use up that ammunition would is much lower than the amount of times someone drinks. Banning assault rifles is nothing new, states have successfully done so and i havent heard of any sort of rise in crime related to it. Granted, i havent dug up the stats to say that with any degree of certainty. It would be interesting to see the comparison between states that do ban it and those that dont.

Even now we ban explosive devices. Why? Because when they are used incorrectly they can cause large amounts of casualties. Even with that ban in place i havent heard of a rise in explosive devices used during criminal activity...despite the fact that they can be easier to acquire than assault rifles.

I will agree that banning handguns would just lead to an even worse black market. Practically speaking, handguns would be much easier to distribute due to the ease in which one can conceal them. Even with handguns being legal we have difficulty tracking them. I was just posting about Junior Seau's suicide the other day. Despite it happening in May, police still have no earthly idea where or when he acquired the handgun.
And cant say ive read Tao Te Ching.

If it's something that an overwhelming percentage of the population is in favor of you won't have many problems prohibiting certain things. However, when there's a big enough demand, the supply will be met, one way or another. If there's a big enough market for handguns & they're outlawed as the above poster suggested, you'll always have people who would be willing to traffic those weapons for the inflated profits that are a direct result of said prohibition.

[emeraldfin]

If it's something that an overwhelming percentage of the population is in favor of you won't have many problems prohibiting certain things. However, when there's a big enough demand, the supply will be met, one way or another. If there's a big enough market for handguns & they're outlawed as the above poster suggested, you'll always have people who would be willing to traffic those weapons for the inflated profits that are a direct result of said prohibition.

I agree with the premise of your argument, but in order to meet anything like the supply needed for black market weapons across the country, weapons production would still need to be at a fairly high level. The only companies I can think of that could meet that supply to produce underground firearms and have the financial clout to do so would be the weapons manufacturing companies.

So who would be producing the guns for the black market then? The same companies that provide the military with their firearms? the government? the CIA? the military?

[phinfan3411]

I agree with the premise of your argument, but in order to meet anything like the supply needed for black market weapons across the country, weapons production would still need to be at a fairly high level. The only companies I can think of that could meet that supply to produce underground firearms and have the financial clout to do so would be the weapons manufacturing companies.

So who would be producing the guns for the black market then? The same companies that provide the military with their firearms? the government? the CIA? the military?

I'm not sure you realize how easy it is to make a firearm, I have watched films about the people in Afganistan (Khyber Pass) that make AK's and other guns IN CAVES, i'm not making this up, they make them in caves.

I also just watched a pretty funny photo-essay on a guy that made an AK47 out of his shovel, again, not kidding.

[Dolphins9954]

Handguns are more readily available and easily concealable making them used more often than assault weapons. Regardless, handguns and assault weapons need to be banned in the U.S. Spare me the protect yourself from the government mantra because that would never happen.

It's a constitutionally protected right. Your arguement is just as crazy as if I said we should ban all free speech, religion and press too. Banning all guns in the country would literally cause another civil war. The funny thing is you would need a lot of guns and force to enforce your ban.

[MoFinz]

Best defense of gun rights actually occured on "All In The Family". Archie is arguing with his daughter Gloria about gun rights, which she is opposed to...


Yeah....that about sums it up. Does anyone think the KC LB who killed his girlfriend couldnt or wouldnt have killed her with his bare hands if he had not had a gun? And maybe he would have crashed or car or commited suicide by cop when he was caught? Speculate all you want...but guns arent responsible for crime, criminals are. Until you can tell me you can 100% pick out a violent criminal who has no history of violence, maybe you should concern yourself more with your and your families safety than trying to deprive me of my right to keep and bear arms.

BTW....had a good friend and former co-worker killed Friday night....shot to death in his own home. His kids werent there thank God. But he was very big into gun control. Somebody made him a target, and there was nothing he could do.

[NY8123]

All I have to say to gun control advocates is be careful what you ask for, regardless of your opinions for or against guns in general it is the underlying constitutional freedoms you should be worried about protecting. Guns are no different than words and in fact the case can be made that words are more powerful than guns.

What are these mad ramblings about you say...........limiting the right to bare arms is no different than limited the right to free speech. People lose track of that, once you coincide your hard fought freedoms it is only a matter of time before more are regulated away. Ban AR-15's, AK's Uzi's etc.....next maybe all semi auto rifles and handguns.

What if we were banning certain verbal expressions instead of guns? What if we were no longer able to criticize the government or its policies? What if we were no long able to report certain news stories because of American interests? Maybe all words found to be insulating are now regulated out of every day society.

Limiting freedoms is a fix to the problem only from the point of view that you now have completely removed any other option or solution to the problem from the equation. I am never going to support any movement that limits or regulates a freedom. I just will not coincide my rights to any freedom that was fought for before me or handed down to me. The government should be worried more about the monopolization of the food, drug, media and energy markets in the US. The government should be worried about the farming of jobs to sweat shops to squeeze every nickel possible out of the bottom line. The government should be worried about balancing a budget that is completely out of control.

The government doesn't need to be worried about American freedoms or the restrictions of those freedoms, that is why we have the American government right now, the restriction of freedoms that were unfairly levied upon us and those who took up arms to fight for their freedoms.