. I hate how thousands of children accidentally kill each other each year because of their parents' desires to protect
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I think you mean:
"I hate how thousands (uhh... exaggeration?) of children accidentally kill each other each year because their parents don't teach them to respect a gun.
I especially hate how they take accountability away from murderers. It's a lot easier to kill someone when he can't see who's pulling the trigger. You can hide in a tree or in a car, and he'll never see you coming. You don't even have to watch him die -- you can drive away and assume he met his end.
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It's a lot easier to stab someone when they're not looking too... or to smother them with a pillow while they're asleep... or run over them with a car...
What's that have to do with anything?
You can shoot someone with a bow and arrow from a tree. You can drop poison in their drink and walk away.
While the sniper's gun is not to blame for his crimes, he would be a lot easier to find if there were stricter gun control laws in our country.
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Assuming the "sniper" is a dumb criminal who has legally obtained his gun, it might be easier to find out who he was. However stricter GUN CONTROL laws wont stop the criminals from doing what they do (that's why they're criminals).
Yet the NRA continues to fight any gun-control legislation brought to Congress. The group refuses to support anything that may hold gun owners accountable for their weapons
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Sorry, but the law abiding citizens who WILL OBEY the laws AREN'T WHO YOU ARE TO BE WORRIED ABOUT.
And everyone must be held accountable for THEIR ACTIONS. Why should one be accountable for an inanimate object? The object itself is harmless w/o a fool using it to hurt someone.
Among its ridiculous arguments, the NRA claims ownership of guns protects innocent people, who can use their weapons to fight back against criminals.
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Yes, that is soooo far fetched. There's no way someone with a gun would stand a chance of actually defending themselves! We're talking science fiction with that NRA argument...
Instead of protecting us, owning a gun actually puts us in harm's way. If you are held at gunpoint and reach for your gun, you will be dead before you ever pull it out.
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That's why you don't go for your gun when you have one pointed at your head... This requires common sense. If you're dumb enough to try and do ANYTHING sudden like go for a knife/gun/his gun while the criminal has his weapon pointed at you... YOU WILL BE SHOT. That's not the only circumstance one could be in during a self-defense situation.
If you are robbed or burglarized, the chances that criminals will find your gun before you can get to it are very high.
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I get it... the criminals have this "sixth sense" as to where your gun is. Thus they have a "high chance" of getting to it before you can. I get it... we should ban psychics!
But what can be done about this?
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What could be done about it (assuming you mean people being fools with guns instead of defending themselves)? I say get the fools w/ no common sense to take safety courses, or slap some sense into them.
The Second Amendment guarantees Americans the right to own guns, doesn't it?
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One point I think we all agree on...
The Second Amendment very clearly states, "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." We have a right to own guns, even to carry them on our person. Our forefathers made certain of that.
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Make that two...
Guns are a hell of a lot more dangerous than they were in the 18th century. Muskets could only fire one shot at a time, and took nearly five minutes to fully load.
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According to mail call... they took 20 seconds.
Today, automatic weapons can shoot several bullets in a row with no need to load at all. One does not need to prepare his weapon to fire, he must simply pull the trigger.
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I guess guns nowadays manufacture their own bullets out of thin air... wish I had one of those. I still have to clean, load mag, insert mag, cock, release safety, then pull trigger... Is she saying that I DON'T have to load my gun anymore?! This could come in handy! and save lots of money on ammo/mags.
When the Constitution was written, America was still a very new country. We were just coming off of a war and were extremely paranoid of our country one day becoming a tyranny similar to England's. Therefore, the Second Amendment was added to the constitution to allow citizens to form their own armies, in case a president became a dictator. Times are much different now. Our democracy is secure. Despite what many think, Bush is not an absolute monarch, and probably won't even win the next election.
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Regardless of whether she thinks any one president is/isn't a threat, They put that in the constitution to protect the people from the government... It didn't say "only for the next 100 years while we're scared". Does she think the govt now is less able to control our lives then it was when the country was founded?
As a result, common sense dictates we make people register to own guns and register the guns they purchase.
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And we should make people register each knife they own, and baseball bat, and plastic bag, and pillow, and...
Everyone must be held accountable for the weapons they own
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No, everyone must be held accountable for THEIR ACTIONS. Why should one be accountable for an inanimate object? The object itself is harmless w/o a fool using it to hurt someone.
We must perform background checks on everyone purchasing a gun, even at a gun shows. This will help keep guns out of the wrong hands.
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I guess they don't actually check stuff at gun shows... the sellers are actually just doing it all for fun, and so they can charge more...
To protect ourselves from future crime, we need bullets that we can trace to specific guns.
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Right, we all know how the criminals legally obtain their guns. Glad we'll be able to trace it to the person it was stolen from...
If this causes the cost of bullets to be raised to $100 each, we're probably the better for it.
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Yes, that's logical... for someone who starts off their article with "I hate guns".
We also need to be able to trace guns to their owners.
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Same as listed above... criminals are going to register their stolen weapons?
Whatever we decide to do, we must enact some stronger form of gun control. We can't rely on outdated policy, or we will continue to be helpless victims of crime.
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How about instead we look at how well the gun laws have effected things to begin with...
Really, I have an idea... let's just make it illegal to kill someone. That way, everyone wont do it... Oh wait, the criminals don't obey the law?!? well...
OK, let's make it illegal to own a gun, that way nobody will get shot. Oh wait... criminals don't obey the law?
From burglar/rapist/murderer's point of view:
Do you think he would rather do his dirty deeds in a place where he knows nobody can own a gun, or somewhere that allows law abiding citizens to have them? Even if he doesn't have a gun himself (thanks to your no-gun law that he felt guilty enough to turn his gun in), don't you think he'd much rather take the "easy pickins"?
Every year more people die from car accidents than guns. We need to ban cars...
More people are killed by drunk drivers than guns each year. We should make it illegal to drink and drive... oops, it already is! Well, why do we still have drinking and driving problems?!?