Quote Originally Posted by Nailhead
Again, murder is, and should always, be illegal. The problem with America's violence is not that we have too many guns, but that our laws are too weak on violent offenders. We should blame the shooter, not the gun itself. It does us no good to ignore the true cause of crimes if we take the blame off of the person that caused that crime. If we actually had tough laws to prosecute and convict violent offenders, we would not have so many gun related deaths per year.

You are under the assumption that anyone with a gun is stupid, if you are dumb enough to keep a gun in a house with children without it being locked up separately from the ammo, then you shouldn't have kids. The problem here is not the gun itself, but the absence of common sense from the parent, this is just taking blame off who is at fault, the parents. Most of your arguments seem to put the blame on the gun rather than the individual operating the gun. A gun can be a dangerous weapon, but so can a car, knife, rope, bat, etc. You can't stop crime if you don't look at the root cause, and the root cause is not the weapon but the motive. Find the motive, and you can stop crime, but if you stop the weapon, the motive remains and the crime doesn't go away.

America will never ban all guns, any government action trying to do so would certainly cause a revolution, the idea isn't even worth toying with.
Regarding your comments concerning laws and violent offenders I agree with you. But guns are also apart of that problem. You can't really deal with one without dealing with the other but statistics show that guns increase the risk of violence. That can't be ignored.

My comment about guns going off when children are playing with them was directed at meatw4d who said the following: "When your defenseless children, grandchildren, etc... are oppressed by the government and victimized by criminals, then they can thank you." It wasn't meant as a general statement about gun safety and children.

And banning guns is an idea worth toying with when they are directly involved with so much violence. Anything that is that large a part of American deaths each year should be examined and possibly banned.

Oh, and I don't buy the excuse that people have guns in their possession to protect themselves from "terrorists". How many terrorists have been captured or killed in America because of the guns citizens own?
ATrain Reviewed by ATrain on . The great gun-control debate So, I'm interested to hear all your opinions on gun policy at a national level; whether you be Canadian, American, or whatever. I peronally believe that people should have the right to own guns. Putting an outright ban on them, as many people support, would IMO only arm the criminals and leave the general public defenseless. Too often I've seen failed policies (in law, and especially schools) that rely on de-clawing everybody with the false notion that you can actually control the entire Rating: 5