Firearms Options

[Irysa]

Question fest. What is your stance on owning firearms? Should people have a right to defend themselves in this way, or does having a gun in your house simply encourage the shooting of people/schoolkids? Should certain guns be banned, should all of them be banned? Should there be less regulations? What are the pros and cons, etc.

Living in the UK where there are relatively few firearms and gun related incidents ( Knife incidents and whatnot are rife however... ), perhaps I do not fully understand the right to bear arms. Nor do I think the introduction of them here for private ownership will produce anything constructive. Do Americans really feel the need to have a gun for safety, or is it more of a tradition now?

Questions, questions. Let me know your thoughts, please.

[Nanashi]

I'm for firearm ownership. Our government should not be telling us what we can and can't own if it poses no risk in the hands of a normal individual. The best way to handle this is to test people buying firearms for psychological and physical factures as well as their mental ability to own a firearm. That way, people who are genuinely responsible can own their firearms and people who have problems can not. A downside to this solution, is that it won't prevent people who commit premeditated murder, where in most cases the person is in a sane sense of mind. I dunno. My $.02.