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Originally Posted by fw102807
So we just go round and round and no one agrees on anything.
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I think everyone wishes that no one would use guns to harm others.
I think this issue boils down to realistic vs. unrealistic.
If we somehow disarmed every person in this country, (by the way we aren't gun owners) then within a few hours, the unscrupulous would be rearmed. We have laws against drugs and people are dying from Heroin overdoses on an epidemic level.
It isn't that we don't share the same goals, no one we know ever wants innocent people harmed, but what is realistic? I can't imagine how a law could be phrased or implemented; would they go in and search peoples homes?
I think we need to realize that the second amendment is gonna stay. I know that many older and sick people, especially those that have moved here from large metropolitan areas feel safer having a fire arm. Most law abiding people who own fire arms will never cause harm to another.
And the evil, bad people will continue to harm, kill, hurt, rob and shoot innocent people.
When I was small, mentally ill people were put into an asylum, locked up. That in itself is scary. Most of us know someone who has mental health issues and just how to identify someone who could cause potential harm to others is very difficult to define and difficult to act upon.
I think that the whole issue is complicated and the people who argue for stricter gun laws think it is doable. I don't.
Again. Growing up where we lived the only people who had guns were those who hunted. It has been an eye opener moving here.
People who grow older and can't run or fight like they used to fear home invasions. I understand that, and that is the reason they moved here to a low crime area.
Things could change and the second amendment makes it so that if a person feels they should own a gun, can.
I understand your feelings and your view. I am not a gun owner. It is just not realistic to try to disarm people now. Half the country owns guns