No one I know owns a gun or has ever seen one. Criminals in this country do not use guns, only in high profile crimes which have been very carefully planned. I have never seen a gun. Gun rates are lower in the UK than in the US. People can't be trusted with guns. There's the old "guns don't kill people, people kill people". But if you're really angry, you might just pull that trigger and blow their brains out, which is much easier than grabbing an object and hitting them with it, which may not kill the person. Criminals in shop heists don't use guns in the UK, in the US they nearly always will. Guns are an easy way to kill people, and giving such responsibility to every citizen in the country is like giving a grenade to a baby. I'm not saying that every person with a gun is going to kill someone, but stuff like the Virginia Tech Massacre completely undermines the whole right to bare arms. What was it, like 40 people dead? Please.
Being someone who's never seen a gun and doesn't even know people who own or have seen guns, I don't think you're in the position to say how easy it is to pull a trigger. I don't know why anti-gun types think having instills this bloodlust into you that's just itching to come out whenever you get a little pissed off. Maybe you all saw that episode of the Simpsons and think all Americans are like that. Having a gun is more like an intimidation factor than anything. In most cases, you don't even have to hold the gun in your hand to show people you mean business. Some people can just show their gun in their holster to show they mean business. Hell, there's many cases where teenage kids rob stores with airsoft guns. A kid at a middle school near mine was killed by the cops because he held some kids hostage with an airsoft gun modified to look like a real gun. If anyone is the type of person to fly off the handle and shoot someone up, there are ways to prevent people like that from owning guns such as various background checks. You act like people can just waltz on down to wal-mart and pick up a gun right off the shelves like they would a box of cheerios. And further more, you act like gun crimes are the only crimes a person can commit. Gun crimes are most likely outweighed by every other crime out there. There's more than one way to kill a person. And considering how hard it can be to legally own a gun, most people would be more prone to take those options especially when it's a lot harder to hide a gun murder than a knife or poison muder (not everyone knows what a silencer is). Look at Plaxico Burress, former wide reciever of, American football team, the New York Giants. He had a New Jersey gun liscense in New York. When that gun accidentally went off in his pants (pardon the possible double entendre) they didn't look at the fact that he accidentally shot himself. They looked at the fact that he didn't have a proper gun liscense. You can't even carry guns around between states without getting involved in more paper work. How many people do you think actually bother with that here if they intend on killing someone? Look at the facts. Most gun owners here aren't mass murderers. They carry guns around to protect themselves with someone else who might have a gun. Either that or they use that gun to go kill something that isn't human.
And furthermore, you have to take into consideration the type of country America is compared to the UK. In a country as populated as ours with as much crime as there is, making guns illegal isn't going to solve anything. Illicit drugs like marijuana are illegal and that hasn't stopped people from having a happy 4/20 while listening to Sublime. Driving while under the influence of alcohol is illegal but people get arrested for DUIs or get involved in drunk driving accidents everyday. Wearing a seat belt is a ticketable offense here in Florida, but you'll still find plenty people too lazy to buckle up. Even if you were to find some way to get rid of every gun in the country, people would still find ways to obtain them. Either that, or it would make way for a different type of crime to take over gun crimes.
Touchy touchy gavel, it was just a little racism.
A little goes a long way...when everyone on the site's done it by now.
