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.
That may work in other countries, but the US has a major problem with crime, and most criminals have illegally obtained guns so that they cant be traced to them. I understand the concerns of those that are for gun control, (except the ones that think every gun owner is trigger happy), but until we reform our prisons to stop making criminals better at being criminals, and we can significantly lessen the violent criminal activity that happens here, Im gonna need to defend myself, and you cant bring a knife to a gun fight.
Besides, my rifle also brings fresh meat to the table during hunting season.
Is it normal that I get frustrated at "Pro gun control" People?
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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.
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That may work in other countries, but the US has a major problem with crime, and most criminals have illegally obtained guns so that they cant be traced to them. I understand the concerns of those that are for gun control, (except the ones that think every gun owner is trigger happy), but until we reform our prisons to stop making criminals better at being criminals, and we can significantly lessen the violent criminal activity that happens here, Im gonna need to defend myself, and you cant bring a knife to a gun fight.
Besides, my rifle also brings fresh meat to the table during hunting season.
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It's a valid argument, but I'd pose a counter-argument. If there's a problem with violent crime, why legalise the means to commit violent crime?
Or, to be very crafty, why aren't nuclear weapons legalised world-wide so countries can protect themselves from rogue states which possess them?
It's the same argument. People can't have it both ways.
There you go again using logic and reason.