How does gun control disable the ability of law abiding citizens to fight for?

Question

their lives and freedom?

When the purpose of gun control is to allow law abiding citizens to have guns while attempting to make it impossible for criminals to obtain them legally.

Answer 1

I don't think 2nd Amendment enthusiasts want any restrictions on the "type" of guns. They would allow assault rifles into our communities if they had the chance.

Answer 2

This is a truthful and legitmate argument for some part. Most of us answering are about our rights to own weapons, guns as a part of our constitutional right. Some of us own them for protection, some for sport like target shooting without the intention of shooting someone. I believe his question is more targeted (no pun intended) to if some law abiding citizen went "nuts" and started something like Columbine or the VA Tech shootings. They may have been law abiding at some point and some phychosis caused them to use their guns for harm vs. protection or sport. The point is you can't punish the many law abiding gun owners to keep the occasional psycho from using theirs for harm and destruction. Yes, VA Tech was a shame, Columbine, I don't even think he was legal to own a gun, but you have to remember there are exceptions to every rule and where there are many good people, there may be a bad apple. You can't punish the law abiding sportsman because some dumb stupid disturb kid shoots up a school. It is our right, whether for militia or self protection, Who knows at what point we may be called upon as militia, if we did, I would want my gun. 911 ring a bell? Yes, it was planes, but what if we were attacked on the ground by a military of someother counry? My 72 year old mother just bought a ruger and taking classes. I asked for a gun for Christmas from my husband. I believe in the ability to protect myself and my family & home. I don't have children at home and not causing a nuisance. I just want to be able to protect myself if I need to. I am a person who believes in gun control, but I don't believe in gun banning. My opinion, right or wrong, but if some person broke into my home, I sure as heck would feel more comfortable confronting the inruder with a gun vs. a roundhouse kick. I am not even sure I could do a roundhouse any more; and what if he had a gun; I can't stop a bullet with a roundhouse, though I am not one for killing, but I would protect my home and my life if needed. It is a wonderful thing to say if I am peaceful everyone else will be; but unfortunately it doesn't work that way. Environment and circumstance puts us on different playing fields. Our ability to own a gun, LEGALLY, evens out that field and yes, if guns were banned, I believe that only criminals would have them and then where would we be???

Answer 3

Yes

The book More guns less crime build the strong case for it.



Now lets consider some cases:

West VA shooting was a gun free zone did that stop nut who shot up the place.

Columbine would a few more laws stop those two?

If laws work why are more kids being shot to death in a city with the toughest gun laws ie Chicago than in Iraq.



All the ink on paper in the world won't stop nuts but people who are arm can.



Self defense in the home is our right call the Bill of Rights in the second amendment.

Answer 4

That might be the supposed stated purpose of "gun control", but that isn't what it has done as yet. Its been limiting bullets for cartridges, its been making certain guns illegal, and has don't almost nothing to stop criminals from getting the guns they want.

Gun control doesn't do anything to stop the underground gun market and black market, it merely makes for another charge against a criminal whom gets caught for commiting a crime.

Meanwhile citizens are limited on thier choice of firearms based on infringement of thier liberties. Sure, that leaves one open to crimes caused by unstable citizens. And that is the only REAL issue at the moment

Answer 5

Read the Constitution. It clearly says that the "right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." Until you and other gun control advocates are willing to propose modifications to the Constitution to make the policies you advocate lawful, I don't think we need to debate the merits of these unconstitutional proposals. There is not a constitutional right to drive an automobile. There is a constitutional right for all Americans to keep and bear whatever arms they feel are necessary for them to defend themselves, their families, and the Constitution of the United States and yes every American has a constitutional right to use their arms to resist any attempt by the government to enforce "gun control" legislation.

Answer 6

No one argues that criminals should have possession of guns.



However, every law designed to prevent access to guns by criminals is a failed law. Criminals easily obtain guns through the black market or through theft or fraud.



Gun control advocates know the laws are a failure but continue to harp about the need for more control with the eventual goal of winning approval for an outright ban falsely believed to be "total control" of guns. The truth of gun bans is they act as a total loss of control while creating an entirely new class of criminal carved from the formerly law abiding.



A government has the just authority and ability to control criminals. Bad government will always create more of them them through bad law in an attempt to control more people.



The law abiding gun owner is forced to run and jump over hurdles while criminals walk around them.



A better answer to the problem is true "criminal" control. Being in possession of a gun during any crime of theft or assault adds thirty years to the sentence upon conviction. Injuring or killing during the commission of a crime gets you life with no parole. A criminal, once convicted and time served, found in possession of a gun brings 30 more years, automatically.







If you, acting criminally, desire to burglarize a "known" unoccupied residence, you don't need a gun although you could be mistaken about the status of occupation, so you may desire to have one with you just in case. As the resident of your target home, I assume you do. Best you assume, I'm home and armed, willing to use my tools for defense. Best to stick with robbing old ladies using walkers and hope witnesses to your crime are unarmed.









"If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them, Mr. and Mrs. America, turn them all in, I would have done it." -Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-California





If you can, please tell us what the President, an advocate for more gun control laws, did while a member of the Illinois state legislature to restore Second Amendment rights to his constituents in Chicago.

Answer 7

The laws in places like Chicago and some surrounding suburbs are written so the law abiding citizen is the potential victim, because these laws deprive all law abiding citizens to refrain from owning hand guns, even for defensive purposes.



This means that law abiding citizens are left defenseless while criminals and thugs are all able to arm themselves, and draw comfort in knowing that most occupants are left defenseless when they break in to their homes and apartments.

Answer 8

No matter what, non law abiding citizens will get their hands on weapons no matter what. Black market, stealing, paying off others to purchase, etc. Personally, I'd rather they do it legally, it makes the weapon more tracable (via permits, s/n registration, etc). There will still those out there to by guns "off the grid", but why must the law abiding people suffer for the actions of the bad seeds?

Answer 9

Intentions and results are two different things. They are often completely disjointed from one another.



More to the point then, trying to restrict guns with the intention of keeping them out of the hands of criminals just results in criminals with guns and law abiding citizens with none.

Answer 10

Gun control just creates restrictions on people who obey the law. No criminal ever had any problem getting his hands on a gun. They either buy on the black market or they fill out all the forms with lies.

Answer 11

If you were going to rob a house, where would you like to go? Rod one in a place with tough gun control or light? Look at Washington DC toughest gun control in the country, during that time also the highest murder rate in the country. Now, 1 year after lifting gun control, it had the lowest murder rate since 1965. now the highest murder rate belongs to Michigan...guess who has the toughest gun control laws?????thats right , Michigan

Answer 12

Gun control never works the way you suggest. Look at Canada, Australia and England. Mexico has strict gun laws and look whats its done for them.

Answer 13

Criminals dont follow the law.



Fail

Answer 14

No, that is not true.



As one poster said: more guns, less crime.



That is the name of a book written by a man who set out to prove the link between more guns and more crime, but after looking at the facts it was irrefutable that...more guns leads to less crime.

http://www.amazon.com/More-Guns-Less-Crime-Understanding/dp/0226493660/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277662104&sr=8-1



Criminals will always be able to get their hands on guns illegally, because they are criminals.



We should not be making it so hard to responsible gun owners to get guns to protect themselves.



Gun bans such as in D.C. and Chicago have done nothing to decrease crime, in fact those areas have some of the highest crime rates in the country.



Obviously we shouldn't be handing out guns to anyone who wants one, there should be some restrictions on gun ownership, but the left-wing plan to eliminate all guns is very dangerous.

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Answer 15

Buddy we have to protect ourselves from poor lawmaking. And restrictions or invasions of privacy regarding private gun ownership is misguided.

Answer 16

The ultimate purpose of gun control is to take away all guns.

Answer 17

Guerilla warfare rquires a person to be fit & intelligent

Answer 18

Criminals can obtain them illegally, so it defeats the purpose.

Answer 19

More guns equal less crime: learn real statistics below.

Answer 20

criminals? just because they make you a felon that doesn't make you a criminal. Why would or should somebody who got a felony for writing bad checks be banned from having firearms? how does that make any sense at all?