Is it normal that i get frustrated at "pro gun control" people?

If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.

Criminals usually use Illegally-obtained firearms.
Smuggling of guns won't stop if they make it harder to get licences.

Gun Control will only prevent or make it more difficult for the honest citizens to obtain a firearm with which to protect themselves.
On the other hand, Criminals will be able to commit crime more freely without being concerned about being shot in the process.

What's interesting is that many people don't know why many states in the US started to adopt gun-control laws.

These days people will do "it's for the children" lines or whatever other lines they want.

But gun-control laws have often been part of efforts to keep minorities in their place.

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And here's some interesting facts - MLK was a gun-owner. And Ghandi was FOR the right to own guns.

Both men of peace - but both believed in the right to defense.

The problem is that you seem to come from a country where guns are legal. This is the situation you are used to and your feelings are based upon what you know and see.

If I lived in a country where guns were legal and my parents owned one, I'm damn sure I would have decided to "play" with it when I was a kid. I may have contributed to the statistic that 35% of all gunshot injuries (and deaths) are accidental. If you add suicide and crime to the figures, I think it's something like 97% of gunshot incidents are the result of violent crime, suicide or accidents and protecting oneself (or property) accounts for just part of the remaining 3%. How can people argue that guns are required for security when it is thirty times more likely that they will directly hamper security?

I don't subscribe to the view that banning guns will drive them into the hands of outlaws. If you look at countries that have banned guns, the opposite has happened. The police hold armistices which allow people to hand in guns with absolutely no questions asked. Criminals are happy to get rid of evidence, even if handing it directly to the police seems an unnatural thing to do.

One concession I will make is that banning guns in a country such as, say, America in liable to be unpopular because of the way the country was born and defended. Also, it would be logistically difficult because the sheer number of weapons in private ownership. Nor is it really the business of non-Americans because Americans owning guns doesn't really endanger other countries much.

You know Australia makes it really
Hard to obtain guns... Funnily enough kids don't shoot up our schools and gun crimes are rare...
Gives you something to think about.

I only get frustrated when someone who's for gun control says I should be shot or killed for wanting to own a gun.

I think instead of ONLY treating the AFTERMATH we should think about taking preventive actions. Pro gun law people only care about cleaning up the mess they never care about stopping the mess from happening again. A SMART person will think of all the possible results before they happen. Not AFTER it happens. School shootings do not happen because children had guns. They happen because the schools are not watching these children and keeping them safe. People have killed with kitchen knives too. You want to get rid of kitchen knives? What next pencils? Where will it end?

Guns dont kill, people do. A gun is just a tool, like a socket wrench. its all in how you use it.

Is this who I think it is? Do you have a Manitoba hanging off your lip?

All Texas cities have very high rates of violent crime but I agree that if law abiding sane adults want to keep/carry guns for protection, hunting or just to have fun shooting, then they should be able to do so. If you want to stop crime, you have to stop poverty.

i just want a gun so that i can commit suicide. :/

True there a lot of gun accidents caused by children.. But the best way to fix that would be to teach the kids at a young age the danger of guns and how to handle them safely!
If you're a parent that owns a gun don't be stupid enough to let your kids know how to obtain it! There are gun safes for a reason! Teach the kids gun safety any then safely keep the guns locked up!
If all gun owners practiced this I guarantee 95% of child gun deaths would end immediately!
Don't blame the gun. Blame the person who didn't store it properly!

Excellent post - cos people forget... there's gun crime in countries that outlaw guns.

Yes are there countries that ban guns and have low crime? Yes. The problem with that is that the gun-haters claim the crime is low BECAUSE of the lack of guns. And there's no proof of that other than their assumptions.