What's your stance on gun control?

If this is about the sandy hook shooting, that man tried to purchase a gun and was unable to. I think that is a sign that gun laws are okay. He was mentally disturbed enough to kill his own mother and steal her guns. No law will stop a law breaker. Laws only mean something to the law abiding... and they are not the problem.

I'm a conservative.

OK people are crazy!

First off, things like "outlaw guns" or "control guns" is a stupid naive statements.

Drugs are illegal... but use keeps going up.

Drunk driving is illegal and I pick up beer bottles in front of my house almost weekly.

SPEEDING is illegal and probably every person that wants gun control has sped at some point!

Just because something is against the law does not mean it will suddenly stop happening. The only thing that will happen is the people who are not criminals will stop owning guns. Those are not the people I am worried about.

I mean really - it is illegal to has a gun when robbing a bank... yet all the bank robbers have guns. So what good did having a law do?

Now here is the question. If you were a bad guy and you had a gun and wanted to steal some jewelry from a house. There were 2 houses. One you knew 100% that they had no gun, and the other had rumors around town that the guy was a gun collector, which house would you rob?

Most of these bad guys are wimps. They want to do only what they know they can safely get away with. Last thing they want to do is get shot over a jewelry theft.

Gun control already exists. It's only a unsuitable procedure. Case and point, the history determine approach. You provide almost your entire private info to the dealer who calls it into the federal government, who then says sure or no. The difficulty is that the legal guidelines concerning heritage exams had been overlooked. Considering the brady legislation used to be handed in the 90's there had been only four convictions for falsifying the shape, when there should be a hundred,000+. It relatively is hard to find a constructive to gun manipulate. Registration simply offers extra energy to the .Gov, who then (and has achieved this a few occasions of late) releases the list of homeowners/carriers to the media who prints it. Jon Bobsteve @ 1999 buick lane owns 1 shotgun 12 handguns and a rifle. Oddly adequate, these places are likely to get broken into rapidly after. I assume an upside to gun manage is that it will broaden violent crime, so we can fuel an additional firearm ownership surge. In spite of everything, the supreme court docket dominated that the police haven't any obligation to guard an character, just examine the crime after the very fact. Both manner, thats not so much of an upside. I'd as a substitute just now not have an increase in gun manage, and have extra folks alive and good.

Sorry, this is kinda long. I am a firm believer in the fact that guns don't kill people, people kill people. It's the same train of thought as our large friend. He thought, "oh, this fork made me gain weight so we should get rid of all the forks! Then the problem will magically go away!"

It's like prohibition. Just because alcohol was banned, didn't mean that there was no more alcohol. It's the same. Guns will always be around, strict control or not.

What it comes down to is choice. Our large friend from before ate something fatty with his fork, and he just assumed it was the forks fault. Now, if you replace the fork with the gun, and he shot someone, is it the gun that is the problem? No, it's obviously the person. It is a matter of choice. He was the one who chose to pull the trigger. My whole family is pro gun with legally obtained concealed carry

Permits, but we aren't killers. Is it still bad that we have guns in our possession for protection? Honestly. This is the only thing that makes sense to me.

First, if you want to know public opinion, check with pollsters. You can't get a reasonable sample this way.

What pollsters have found is that a strong majority of ALL Americans support requiring background checks for ALL gun sales (instead o the 40% of gun sales now, that have NO background check requirement).

This majority holds EVER for gun-owners, and NRA members.

A majority also support banning rapid-fire weapons, and long ammo loaders.

Like driving a car, I think you should have to go to the depart mint of firearms and apply for a license, pay your tax and have to take a course in gun safety, come back with proof of purchase of a decent gun safe or equivalent secure storage and demonstrate your ability on a police fire range that you can handle a weapon without killing yourself or another innocent person. Fingerprints for high security FBI background check and mental evaluation.

Buy whatever gun, caliber, style, clip capacity, whatever you want once you have your license. You don't want guns you don't have to buy the license, but you do know there was a federal background check done. Still no protection from those bent on mayhem, but reasonable law easily enforced. No nicense, no buy guns. Maybe severe penalties for licensed dealers selling to unlicensed buyers

Oh, yeah, gun toting Liberal

Take the guns out of the hands of the criminals. Get rid of the debauched low morals society that the secular left has created "If it feels good do it" and put back respect of your neighbor and respect of you neighbors property back into the equation. Don't let a few atheists control laws that the majority are against. You might not believe in God but the Ten Commandments are a good example of how to lead one's life. In the 50's 60's when I went to school I never even heard of a kid bringing a gun into school let alone shoot some one. I never even heard of marijuana back then either. I guess we were nerdy compared to today's society.

There are people on the street trying to kill eachother, taking away automatic large round magazines is no answer to violence nor banning automatic guns, its preposterous. It'd be like trying to ban all moterized vehicles, because they cause deaths.

As in gang violence, gangs dont usually target civillians they target eachother, let them kill eachother.

There are those few people that actually use there guns to protect there fammilys, others that are causeing harm they subdue.

What if society collapses, we need big guns, or if gangs are shooting at people and they have fully autos, a civillian should be able to bust his automatic out and shoot at the problem starters.

stop crazy people from rampages.

Like a pop up, dont be afraid to shoot its just a click away.

Libertarian

no gun laws. the founders made the second amendment to be a last resort defense against tyranny its not hunting/sports its protection of liberty. we the citizens need to be just as armed as the military to have a fighting chance against the tyranny. just look at china/USSR/germany when people say only police and military have guns

I am an Independent, voting for Republicans, Democrats and a Libertarian in the last election.

I am pro Second amendment.

Liberal.

I don't think weapons are problem. People can kill with a handgun as fast as an assault rifle.

We should have written tests and practical application classes to own a firearm, like owning a car which kills more than 30,000 people annually.

I don't see gun owners complaining because if they are qualified, they should pass with no problem.

And people who argue for banning weapon are just purely retarded.