Gun control.

[m0r1din]

How do you guys feel about gun control? I am guessing a lot of you aren't old enough to legally own guns, but I would still enjoy your input. I am personally a big fan of being allowed to own guns. I have a Taurus PT 24/7 ProDS .40 cal., a Mossberg Maverick Model 88 Home Defense 12 Ga. shotgun, and will soon be getting a Rossi R35103 38 Special revolver. I believe that if you own guns you are responsible to be safe with them. ESPECIALLY if you have children. Also, I believe that guns kill people just like a spoon is what made Rosie O'Donnell fat. Which means it is not guns that kill people, but people using guns irresponsibly to kill people. Please put what you really think out here if you respond.

[Seed]

I agree with that people kill people not guns, and I think guns are a great thing for sport and self protection.

[Angel]

hmm...strange you should bring this up as i have recently done a essay about the gun controls in America and in the UK however i won't write that out all again but what i did  find out is that it seem that America does have issues with the media as the news often has violence featured in it which therefore makes people have a fear and no longer trust their neighbourhood.

One thing i did find out is that America has 11,250 (approx.) deaths due to guns per year and Canada has more guns per household than America yet far less deaths due to guns and something like 64, with the UK at around 68 (don't quote me on the figures, they were something around that)

The laws with gun control in the UK and America are both very difference as in America you can buy guns at the local stores and in one thing i watched people were getting guns for just signing up with a certain bank company. In the UK you need to be like 17 and have to pay for a licence and furthermore have to pay an annual fee of ?45 and have a lot of background checks to make sure your not psycho x]

My view on gun controls is that its okay in having one as long as you use it in responsible way, however with less gun controls like America it seems that fatal school shooting seem to happen and in my view could of been stopped if the gun laws were tighter in America but that is just my opinion


I hope i haven't made any points in my post offensive as i haven't tried to

[m0r1din]

To be honest Angel, I would like you to really get behind your views as I want a good debate going. Here in texas I think it is they are trying to pass a law that allows teachers to conceal carry firearms. That alone would prevent school shootings as the teachers can just shoot back. Although I do believe if that is the case then teachers should have more of a background check and have extensive training and psych reviews. And with the UK, they don't even allow residents to own firearms. In my opinion the UK is ass-backwards. A local man in Britain woke up to find a shotgun in his back yard. Doing the right thing he took it down to the police station and told them "hey I found this so I am bringing it here to you guys" and what do they do? They arrest him for being a good samaritan. They have several documented cases like that. If you carry a pocket knife and if you get jumped and you defend yourself with the pocket knife then they will say you had it with you simply to use it that way, and you will get arrested simply for defending yourself.

[Angel]

I get what your trying to say however guns are rarely ever seen in public and when they often mean something bad is about to happen and that person who has the gun or any weapon is automatically seen to be more powerful than anyone else just because he has a weapon of some sort, however i haven't lived in the UK all my life and i moved here when i was 12 from Romania which again as a completely different ideas on guns.

Teachers who would gain guns at schools would just make the students to trust there teachers less? because of being worried they have a gun which could lead to the students carrying weapons too which could possible increase the problem but there's a chance that it could lower the problem in schools.

I personally don't worry about guns as i've sort of grown up with them when i was in Romania and i don't overly have a fear of someone using a gun however i do see problems and where they could be sorted out to lower the deaths and other problems related to guns.

[Tha Flikkerz]

You better Gimme d claws irl, like u RUSHING your teacher in lesson. HES Like OMFG@#@$!  Dropping him and like mogtime says: G-ame G-amee! everyone goes like Dbewts!? Whats the Loowts? how awsome.

[Ben]

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[sl4y3r]

i own guns myself grew up around them my whole life and guns dont kill people. people kill people. personally i have a mossberg 20 ga,16 ga bolt action, ruger p89, ak-47, .22 hornet, .22 pistol, and a .22 lr. and the media here in amercia blows everything outta proportion the only reason we see alot of violence is because when something big happens then its all over the news when it rarely happens then that scares people like columbine virgina tech etc... doesnt happen often but when it does the media is dieing for a story so all of them jump at it and make it sound like this happens everyday. and im not trying to say it aint bad because it is. at my high school last year we had 4 bomb threats none of them going off. but you dont here about it because 1. the school hides it and thats because they dont want the media getting the info then everyones outta school for awhile because the parents are afraid for their kids lives. you dont here about average everyday incidents because its not interesting and thats why the media gets attracted to these stories and blow them completly outta proportion. everything has warning signs and weather adults take the responsibility to tell someone about these signs is up tot hem. because warning signs are completely obvious.

[Hime Sara]

There is no way to get into this without being called racist or whatever, but I am fully aware that it dangerous in Texas/Arizona area due to the drug cartel being on a rampant and stuff.  I think that there should be a stricter process to get a gun but that everyone should have it.  Also, they need to get rid of state regulated laws and go to federal regulated.  It is really really annoying knowing that I can carry a gun in Indiana, but when I have to drive across the state line to Illinois (which is a weekly/biweekly thing) I would have to unload it and stick it in the trunk in a locked case to prevent access to it.  Every year I have to go out and get a book and read what the state regulations are if I want to go in road trip. 

Also, not all state permits are valid in some states.  Like the Indiana permit is valid in N.D. and Montana, but for some reason its not valid in Utah, but N.M. is? (and sorry for state abbreviations if ur not familar with them)

and Castletons Law ftw

(terribley sorry for all mispellings)

[sl4y3r]

There is no way to get into this without being called racist or whatever, but I am fully aware that it dangerous in Texas/Arizona area due to the drug cartel being on a rampant and stuff.  I think that there should be a stricter process to get a gun but that everyone should have it.  Also, they need to get rid of state regulated laws and go to federal regulated.  It is really really annoying knowing that I can carry a gun in Indiana, but when I have to drive across the state line to Illinois (which is a weekly/biweekly thing) I would have to unload it and stick it in the trunk in a locked case to prevent access to it.  Every year I have to go out and get a book and read what the state regulations are if I want to go in road trip. 

Also, not all state permits are valid in some states.  Like the Indiana permit is valid in N.D. and Montana, but for some reason its not valid in Utah, but N.M. is? (and sorry for state abbreviations if ur not familar with them)

and Castletons Law ftw

(terribley sorry for all mispellings)

thats not racist at all lol the drug cartel is horrible and idk why you feel racist because americans are in drug cartel as well but you dont hear about it as much as you do if its a cuban or mexican. i didnt know you live in indiana either o.o i grew up there and visit my family there quite often lol in southern indiana. i dont think there should be stricter gun laws because it already takes you close to half a year already to get a handgun i dont really wanna wait any longer when i plan to purchase another. i like the gun laws as they are and as ive said and other people guns dont kill people. and violence in america and blown completely out of proportion because like i stated earlier something bad like columbine or the fort hood incident dont happen hardly at all but when they do the media needs a good story so they exaggerate everything like if someone gets mugged in new york lets say. well ok i live in a diffrent state yet they'll tell it like this/ women mugged today in downtown new york city the streets are getting dangerous by the day even worse then it was years ago. when in reality thats probably the first time its happened in probably a year or so. but when it happens you'll hear about it.   

[Seed]

*sigh* If only we werent allowed to carry guns, a lot of problems wouldnt arise(In my opinion). Though crime rate may go up a bit, but after awhile it would go down, and the things like armed robberies and those mass killings at high schools wouldnt happen as often, because access to guns would be a lot tougher. Now I know if you were really resolved to do something like that, then you would probably find a gun anyway, but I still think that guns being legal are worse than not. I mean why not just carry Mace hmm?

[tacoman]

WEZ NEED MORE GUNS

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