No I didn't but aren't guns usually used to commit murder and isn't murder worse than suicide?
Statistically most gun deaths are suicide. Guns are also used for hunting, sport (like skeet shooting) and defense. I don't remember the exact statistic but it's something like 74% of gun murders are criminals from the black market shooting each other.
If you want a pragmatic reason for guns to be legal: The fact that guns are legal here contributes to the high-quality of our professional armed forces.
I'm not arguing about firearm regulations. I'm simply responding to your question about guns being used for murder.
Sometimes, unfortunately, you do need to kill somebody (war, crime, ect) and even though it is a grim task, there needs to be an instrument or a tool to do that.
Watch that video it takes a very middle ground stance on it.
No I didn't but aren't guns usually used to commit murder and isn't murder worse than suicide?
Also, guns are legal in Japan, but they are just regulated to the extreme. They actually do have gun clubs that you must become a member of in order to purchase one but I can't remember the exact details.
I'm all in favor of
regulation of firearms, but I think that completely banning guns is similar to criminalizing all drugs - it ignores the underlying cause.
I think that there's an old saying, "the greatest mass murders in history are governments." And this is why the Second Amendment exists, so that people can defend themselves against any future form of tyranny. (However, I'm not a constitutional law experts and my understanding is you can make the argument that people needed guns for hunting back then. But even today there is still quite a few people that live in rural areas that need to have access to firearms).
No I didn't but aren't guns usually used to commit murder and isn't murder worse than suicide?
I don't think you need to have a nuclear weapon. I can't really foresee a reason that you would need a grenade or a rocket launcher. Do I think that certain people can be trusted with fully automatic guns? Yes. I do. And in fact some people are, you can get a special license for that. My friend's uncle is one of them, he has an old Tommy gun and shit, he's a collector but he has fully automatic working weapons. So its not like nobody has them. There is a license for them and I cannot remember the exact details off the top of my head but it's something like as long as you are licensed and they were manufactured prior to 1986 or something. I have no problem with someone of sound mind and a sound record owning a machine gun, I really don't. Some of the main reasons that people have problems with guns are not even problems with guns; the guns are not the problem in this situation. Gang violence is a problem of drug policy, not guns. Because the guns aren't gonna go away. There is no magic wand that we're gonna wave and make the guns go away. Especially not for the criminals. Its not really an option, I don't know its discussed like it is. It's not an option because it just wont happen. Even you dragged people out on the street and shot them in the head if you found guns in their house, it wouldn't happen. Also some of the things that grab headlines, kid's suicides, children shooting themselves because nobody really gives a fuck about what I do anything an adult kills themselves. But if it a kid kills himself with a gun or goes into a school and shoots up a bunch of kids, it's the gun's fault. No, there's a problem here, its a combination of mental health and poor parenting. I'm sorry but those boys that shot up Columbine, somebody should have known that there's something wrong with these kids. This is not a sudden thing, this a gradual process falling further and further into an insane mental state. And I believe that one of them got the gun from their father or uncle or whatever, if you have someone that you don't think is of sound mind in your home you should have your guns locked up securely in a safe. And if you're incapable of judging who does or does not have a sound mind then you shouldn't be owning a gun which is why I suggest that we have mental health requirements for purchasing firearms. I think we should have mental health requirements for a lot of things and I think we could kill several birds with one stone with that. You have to have a driver's license to drive a car, you should have a sanity license to own a gun. I believe in concealed carry. I don't think open carry is necessary. I don't really see how that is necessary for you. I'm not gonna out of my way to ban that but I wouldn't vote for it if it came up on the ballet. I just don't think it's necessary. It would freak too many people and there would be too much confusion as to who is a good guy and who isn't. That would be my concern.
The fearless hosts tackle the facts, the stats, and the truth to find out who's right in the raging controversy over the Second Amendment and gun control.
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. I don't know. I don't really know why some countries allow access to firearms more freely than others. It's not impossible in the UK but, it's more difficult and less common for people to have guns. Personally, I'm grateful for that, although it would be useful in our suicidal circumstances.
