GUN CONTROL....is it a good thing ( Archived) (888)

As long as Homo-Sapians walk this world, there will not be peace. It's in our genes unfortunately, even Chimps attack one another often without a reason.

If you outlaw all guns and go around collecting and destroying the guns, people will turn to knives and other sharp objects... some of the greatest loss of human life at the hands of other humans occurred long before guns were invented. Armies would slaughter one another on the fields of war, killing many tens of thousands in a single day, without a single shot being fired. So tell me again why guns are such an evil thing?

Take away the guns AND all the sharp objects, and people will resort to throwing STONES at one another... as I say, it's buried deep in our genes. LOL!

Guns are not the problem, people are the problem. Guns in the hands of honest citizens for self protection are an attempt to manage that problem. The problem needs more active management, IMHO.

And for the record I dislike guns (though I have 1) but I recognize the need for honest citizens to have guns! I'm all for gun control, but only to keep guns out of hands of the criminal element living amongst us. Unfortunately, criminals rarely fill out paperwork or applications to buy a gun, they prefer to just steal the gun from someone who legally owns it (while the owner isn't home usually) or buy them on the black market from other criminals who've stolen them.

Criminals do not go thru legal processes to acquire guns! An honest citizen with no criminal history should NOT have to jump thru hoops to legally purchase a gun! That just makes no sense at all.

As a child, my family home was burglarized while we were out seeing a movie one evening... they broke in and stole all the money, gold and diamond rings my mother had, and EVERY GUN my father had in the gun cabinet (4 or 5 rifles and a handgun, as I recall)! We never got those guns back, even after learning who had stolen them. Where they are today I have no idea (the guns, not the thieves who are likely dead by now). But I can attest that it's damned difficult to fall asleep in a bedroom knowing that only hours before a stranger had been in the room ramsacking it, breaking open your piggy banks and emptying them, dumping the contents of all your drawers on the floor and kicking things around... what a mess they'd made! It's VERY difficult to get to sleep after having that experience, this I know.

The point is and remains, there is no good reason to restrict gun ownership by honest citizens... it's the criminal element in our midst who we'd like to keep the guns away from, but can't since the criminals do not fill out legal forms to purchase guns.

So why are we even talking about gun control when you cannot control the guns that are being illegally acquired by criminals to begin with?

It's not the manufacturer's fault for producing the gun, it's not the distributors fault for selling the gun... they aren't making the guns FOR criminals, and they aren't selling the guns TO criminals. That criminals find ways to get the guns illegally, and have preferences for what type of guns they want to acquire, is the criminals fault and no other... put the blame where it belongs.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

Whew! This thing has been going on for 9 hours...anybody reach a conclusion to the post yet?

Hi Kansan haven't seen you around in a while. Are you still planning another get together this summer?

Now let me think this thru for just a second... a woman President with PMS and a Nuclear Aresenal at her disposal... yeah, that should work well.

I have nothing against that idea, but the rest of the world might just wanna think about it some more. I can see the Taliban in Afganistan and Pakistan having a REALLY BAD DAY around the 1st of the month.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

Im still waiting to see if anyone has a reasonable answer. Id really like to know.

Changing the laws won't stop the gun runners, Tam...this is the point I tried to make earlier. Changing the laws only affects the law-abiding citizens and makes it harder for them to protect themselves against criminals and infringes upon our rights. Criminals aren't affected in any way unless they are caught and the laws already in place are enforced. There's no need for more laws, but rather a need for more people to uphold the laws we already have.

Gun running is already illegal.

You are very Right and you don't know who is trying to come in your house at 3:am & the Laws on the other side of the County!!

Whew! I was worried there.

Now they need to do something about scissor running.

Running with scissors is really dangerous.

Thumper, it's because it can't be done. Nobody has succeeded yet, including the countries where they have removed guns from the hands of the law-abiding citizens by outlawing their ownership completely. Some have a hunting exception, I believe, and yet handguns are still carried and used in crimes by the criminals. UK and Australia standing out as prime examples.

If I recall correctly, armed crime jumped up by 300% in Australia when this was done. Do you understand the enormity of a 300% armed/violent crime rate increase? That's huge!

Well, I stopped back in briefly while I could and decided to see how this thread was going. I see that everyone's still on their same point of view, nobody's moving, and it's getting heated. Don't, sadly, have time to read through the remaining pages...but I think maybe some people on here, like Snuggs and Tam, should do some research and learn the facts. They just might find that they're very incorrect in their assumptions.

Agreed, with both of you. Which is why I'll continue to exercise my right, and why I'll defend it in whatever way I must.

There are a few Ladies like you who have been Protected all their lives & don't have fear or face Reality!!