Questions on gun control

What do you mean by "anti gun"?. I said I am pro second amendment. If I was voting on a ban of all firearms, I would vote against that ban (at least at this time). If you mean that I would potentially vote for regulations, then you would be correct.

I didn't say that I was the right one to decide how many "shots" would be appropriate. Or what type of regulations should be placed on firearms. I was advocating a overall, general viewpoint on the logic behind regulation in general.

Random tragedy? Is that what you call it? Random? Really? with all the mass shootings within the last decade or so... you want to say it's random? It's not random. There was a motive in all of those shootings and there was also a way that the person was able to carry out those shootings with the help of certain tools. It's not random.

And I'll tell you something else. Just because I'm not a gun owner, doesn't mean that I and others don't have a say in the gun laws. We walk the same streets as you do and we all have a right to feel safe. If you want to own guns, that's fine. But there is a line to be drawn.

Look at the last paragraph in the comment I wrote above yours.

Also, more typical responses that I've heard too many times now. Always trying to compare guns to other issues. It's not the same.

Women's reproductive health doesn't pose a threat to everyday Americans walking the streets. Women's reproductive health doesn't put bullets in people's heads.

I mean I get what you are trying to say, it's just that it really is not comparable at all. Non gun owners have a right to have a say in gun laws because the presence of guns is something that affects everyone's personal safety and has the potential to help or harm a person's personal freedoms.

I won't go into detail about how that process works and why.

I was simply speculating on an idea that the OP had proposed. I was not trying to propose any gun laws or even claim that I knew anything about guns, and right away I got two very defensive responses, both telling me I don't know what I'm talking about etc.

Makes me question why someone would get so defensive like that. I think sadly a lot of people who own guns don't understand the true power of their weapon and don't quite understand the responsibility they take on when they possess a firearm.

Gun rights are in the constitution, but that doesn't mean that it is priority over all other rights.

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Every year in America, the number of drunk driving fatalities (*13,365 in 2010)roughly exceeds the number of **gun related homicides. (The gun related homicides also include justifiable homicides by law enforcement and self)
To the OP,Should we limit how much alcohol can be purchased by an individual? Should we continue to sell alcohol to repeated DWI offenders? How about background checks?

* Source The Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
**According to the FBI, in 2012, there were 8,855 total firearm-related homicides in the US

This is a very typical response of a gun owner (with some exceptions). I have had a similar conversation probably 5 times at least with people who own guns. Every time, they get very defensive very fast. Before I continue my response, I'll say that I am pro second amendment. I believe that because guns exist and are difficult to control, the people, for safety reasons, have the right to own them if they feel they would like to. I have nothing against you being a gun owner.

That being said, I think that considering that the technology that we have in modern day weapons (which yes, is more than it was back in the day), we have to have regulations. I agree that 20,000+ regulations is a lot and you're right, they probably aren't being upheld and enforced properly a lot of the time. I also think that we need to step that part up as well to enforce the laws that we do have. But I think that we have to accept that with the nature of a weapon, considering that we have hundreds of millions of people in this country, and people and items come into this country unmonitored regularly, we are going to have to have a lot of laws.

I mean hundreds of millions of people... can you imagine if all of those people had guns? And not only a gun... but a gun that could in some cases, come close to matching military grade firearms? You might think I sound dumb... but really think about it. The goal of restrictions in my view is to make it harder to obtain firearms, make it a slower process, and reduce the number of guns circulating around. People who really want it for self defense who are law abiding citizens will still have no problem having something to defend themselves.

I am not proposing a specific regulation. However, if the 6 shot hypothetical were put into place, my proposal would be that we only apply that to guns purchased after a certain date and make illegal the resale of any firearms of that type. The goal would be to decrease the rate that those types of firearms are being distributed. I know that there is really no way to completely get rid of anything like that.

I have heard the car argument before by the way, but it's not comparable in my book. A car is something that has a purpose to transport people and items. A gun only has one purpose really, and that is to kill. And by the way, we heavily regulate automobiles and we have a lot of law enforcement on the road. We have that for a reason. It doesn't completely stop all accidents, but it would be a lot worse without the enforcement.