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

To add, there are certain firearms that are prohibited, in the UK.

This has been very interesting from my view. We are teaching the childern in this world it is ok to watch killings on video games where they Kill for points. We make movies on killing with chain saws to bombs and call it entertainment. No one wants to remove this media. I spoke of Gun safety classes for teenagers and got Booed from the U.K . I have been a Firearms instructor and Hunter safety instructor. for teenagers 14 and up. My students have learned firearms saftey and respect. I have a good record none of my students have committed a crime. I had to handle a case where a boy was killed by a playmate then his body was hidden under the house where it was found by my K-9 Blitz.
The boy were playing with a gun and it accidently went off they were playing with a loaded gun and had no training. The Boys were watching a movie Arnold Swartzani**er (sp) killing cops. Terminator. Gun are a fact of life if we live in ignorance then this will happen. The boy of Colunbine(sp) were also watching movie about killing people. The freedom of speech protects these movie makers but no one seem to care what we put into the minds of our youth we focus on the systom and not the disease. I have watched the courts release scum, drug dealers and rapest back on the streets only to offend again. This is the problems not the guns. It is called RESPECT and there are few willing to teach this. The police are working hard to control the crime and need a parents help because their is no respect for the LAWS.

sommer I have a few guns ,I don't shoot at people ,they are NOT to save my home or family, I do not hunt (but did in my youth), I do however Skeet shoot as I have said before, I break no laws and enjoy my sport with my son and whoever wishes to jion in, not everone carries a gun to shoot or kill something or someone.

You are right Sommer if you have a license for a gun in the UK you have to have a very good reason to have one, the police come and check that it is locked away in a metal container with a padlock etc...

You are sent a letter from the local Police to renew the lic every so often and must also proove you can use and handle it in a correct and safe manner....

Even on the farm it is rarely used to shoot to kill...

I have witnessed my ex fire a shot in the air to give the fox a sporting chance to escape when it has been amongst the sheep and the same with those crows that pluck out the new born lambs eyes...

Children and Gun Violence
In a single year, 3,012 children and teens were killed by gunfire in the United States, according to the latest national data released in 2002. That is one child every three hours; eight children every day; and more than 50 children every week. And every year, at least 4 to 5 times as many kids and teens suffer from non-fatal firearm injuries. (Children's Defense Fund and National Center for Health Statistics)

America and Gun Violence
American children are more at risk from firearms than the children of any other industrialized nation. In one year, firearms killed no children in Japan, 19 in Great Britain, 57 in Germany, 109 in France, 153 in Canada, and 5,285 in the United States. (Centers for Disease Control)

That may be true ,but I would wonder how many are related to "gangs" This is a very large problem here ...... just saying

Yes and without a doubt black market guns...

After all this I have learned that I am very glad that I was born in the U.S.A and can own a legal firearm. I guess that's why I am a dog not a sheep. I am also a NRA member and will Keep my Right to Bear Arms

Oh of this I am aware, Jesse, I know that people do not have guns 'just to shoot at people' I am not that daft as to assume such a generalisation.

What is 'skeet shooting?'