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Originally Posted by Jimturner
I am a gun owner and can't imagine not having them. But not making the ownership more controlled is irresponsible.
The good guy bad guy or the silly guns don't kill people argument is worthless.
People with mental problems buy weapons and make long term plans to carry out their craziness. Background checks would help. I would propose to own a gun, you would be required to meet or exceed the requirements for concealed carry. If you can't qualify for concealed carry you should not own one.
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How many of these mass murders have been killed by people who obtained the guns legally? We already have more gun control laws than any other country and more gun laws than we've ever had in our history.
I think that it's safe to say that gun control laws don't work. They really only make it a hassle for good responsible gun owners like yourself to get guns. The criminals and mentally ill are going to procure guns through illegal channels.
Honduras bans it's citizens from owning guns. Yet it has the highest homicide rate in the world with 84% of those killings being committed with guns. How is this possible if guns are banned? Should they make more gun control laws? Will that lower the gun death rate?
Back in 1934 the first gun law was passed making it extremely difficult to get fully automatic weapons. The idea was to prevent gangsters from getting these weapons. A hefty fee was instituted for anyone wanting a machine gun making it all but impossible for 90% of Americans to buy one. The exception, of course, was organized crime who had no problem coming up with the money and circumventing the law. Does anyone think that gun control laws would have prevented Al Capone's gang from getting guns.
I'm not sure what the solution is. Some people say that the problem isn't as bad as it's made out to be. One study shows that the incidents of mass killings hasn't changed in 60 years. It's just that we have 24/7 news that reports it better. In other words this has been going on for a long time, it's just recently that we are made aware of it.
Gun control laws are basically political tool, so that members of congress can claim to have done something about the problem. It's all about getting re-elected. The president's words last week were only to get his based riled up and get more votes for democrats. He used the words "common sense" a lot, but never really talked about what is common sense. Making it more difficult for law abiding citizens to get guns doesn't seem like common sense to me. How is making laws that restrict good, law abiding citizens from carrying weapons in order to defend themselves common sense?
Sorry, I don't have a solution. But doing what we've been doing, making more and more gun control laws, is not working.