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Irysa
post Jun 29 2006, 01:30 AM
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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.


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Dr Strum
post Jun 29 2006, 03:23 PM
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QUOTE (Nanashi @ Jun 29 2006, 07:40 AM)
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.
Because a gun can't misfire except when held by a crazy, right? Only a crazy's children will ever find the gun and accidently shoot their friend, right?

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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.
Read above. And what's to stop a normally stable person from getting fired from work and then going on a shooting spree? Or walking in on their significant other with someone else?

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That way, people who are genuinely responsible can own their firearms and people who have problems can not.
Again, read above. Another thing, however, the mentally unsound aren't necessarily unresponsible.

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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.
Nor will it stop crimes of passion.


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Chaos Seraph   Firearms   Jun 29 2006, 01:30 AM
Dr Sturm   First, the "Right to Bear Arms" part of ...   Jun 29 2006, 01:51 AM
Nanashi   I believe they meant the right for people to own B...   Jun 29 2006, 05:49 AM
Leyviur   I want lots of guns so I can reenact the Matrix. ...   Jun 29 2006, 06:24 AM
valkan   Seeing as how I own a Remington 30.06 for deer hu...   Jun 29 2006, 07:19 AM
P.P.A.   No weapons! I´m against every form of war,...   Jun 29 2006, 10:17 AM
Leyviur   There are so many things wrong with your statement...   Jun 29 2006, 12:08 PM
Nanashi   I'm for firearm ownership. Our government shou...   Jun 29 2006, 12:40 PM
valkan   Outlawing or banning the use of private ownership ...   Jun 29 2006, 04:15 PM
Dr Sturm   I never said it would. Read Seraph's opening p...   Jun 29 2006, 04:32 PM
Chaos Seraph   Actually, I think you'd be quite surprised ab...   Jun 29 2006, 04:52 PM
Rzul   I really don't care to much for firearms, but ...   Jun 29 2006, 04:54 PM
Chaos Seraph   And the risk of everyone around you.   Jun 29 2006, 04:56 PM
Rzul   True.   Jun 29 2006, 05:27 PM

 

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