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Do you think America will ever be mostly free or free of guns?

The main reasons America's owner guns were to protect themselves from Indians and the English. The theory you need guns to protect yourself from guys with guns is fine circular reasoning - other countries don't do it.

Updated 6 days ago:

Sorry for the rubbish phrasing in my first sentence, spellchecker sucks.

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  • 6 days ago
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    The main reason gun rights exist in the US is to prevent society from ever getting to a point where you would need a gun to fight against the government.

    Its a deterent against against an unjust government.

    the US is the worlds sole super power. Other countries should try and be more like the US not the other way around.

  • McNeef
    Lv 4
    5 days ago

    In the USA, guns are used, according to one researcher, as much as 2.5 million times per year to stop crime.  If you don't believe that researcher or you think he is biased, even government statistics say guns are used several hundred thousand times per year to stop crime.  That's many times more than guns are used in the commission of crime.  So it seems to me that eliminating guns would cause crime to increase at least dozens of times more than it would reduce crime.

    The main reason to own a gun is to deter and to protect against crime.  The more people protect themselves with the best weapon available for the purpose, the fewer victims there will be.

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  • Gary
    Lv 5
    6 days ago

    "The theory you need guns to protect yourself from guys with guns is fine circular reasoning - other countries don't do it."

    Other countries don't do it because NO other country has EVER had it's LEGAL citizens with the CREATOR GIVEN and CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED RIGHT to keep and bear arms because the founding of our country was fought for by it's citizens being LEGALLY ARMED!! 

    Here's a few brutally honest facts for you that the demoCROOKS have yet to find a way to dispute: 

    1) In the U.S. your OVER 100 TIMES more likely to be physically assaulted or attacked by a person with OR without a firearm in ANY city or state that has STRICT firearm laws than in ANY city or state that respects ALL of a citizen's rights and allows it's citizens to be LEGALLY armed!! 

    2) OVER 90% of ALL firearm related crimes occur in "gun free zones"!

    3) In January 2013 president Obummer ordered the CDC to do a $10 MILLION DOLLAR study on "firearm related crimes" to justify and support the demoCROOK's  proposed firearm restrictions and bans. At the end of the CDC study NONE of the results supported what Obummer and the demoCROOK party hoped for but in fact ALL the results DIRECTLY and STRONGLY OPPOSED and contradicted EVERYTHING Obummer and the demoCROOK tried to claim so the study was hidden and buried from the voting public!!!! 

    4) The demoCROOKS have the problem that NONE of they're "facts" are based on real life PROVABLE and VERIFIABLE FACTS! They're "facts" are based ONLY on THEY'RE opinions and emotions!

    5) The second amendment or 2A is the shortest worded enumerated right in the ENTIRE bill of rights and is the ONLY CREATOR GIVEN RIGHT that CLEARLY and in NO uncertain terms or words SPECIFIES "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED" because it is the CORNERSTONE, mechanism, process and TOOL for the PEOPLE to use to be able to protect EVERY OTHER CREATOR GIVEN RIGHT from infringement or usurpation by the government!! 

    6) There are already OVER 30,000 firearm laws on the books in this country that criminals do NOT follow but the demoCROOKS seem to think that CRIMINALS WILL suddenly and magically follow a few NEW firearm laws!

    7) EVERY proposed new firearm law the demoCROOKS support and DEMAND they be allowed to enact do NOT address CRIMINALS using firearms! Every SINGLE ONE of they're proposed new laws ONLY affect, VILIFY and CRIMINALIZE the LEGAL, RESPONSIBLE and LAW ABIDING firearm owners!!!! 

    IF the LIEberal left socialist demoCROOK'S ever manage to find a way to LEGALLY suspend, remove, revoke or infringe on our CREATOR GIVEN and CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED RIGHTS like they WILL try to do BUT you wouldn't want to come here then because EVERY large city WILL be at the mercy of the gangs and criminals FULLY exploiting them being the ONLY armed groups left in the country besides the otherwise LAW ABIDING people that REFUSE to have they're rights and LEGALLY bought property ILLEGALLY USURPED by the ILLEGALLY installed and thoroughly CORRUPT  LIEberal left socialist demoCROOK PARTY with the aid of they're equally corrupt publicity department the alphabet MSM!! There WILL be tens to HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of RESPONSIBLE firearm owners that REFUSE to give up they're rights AND weapons BUT they won't come to ANYONE else's aid because IF they did they WILL be branded a FELON for not following the new ILLEGAL laws and rules! Hopefully the MANY rights respecting states will also REFUSE to follow or enforce these new ILLEGAL laws AND they file lawsuits against the corrupt demoCROOK politicians for violating they're oaths of office AND the current administration for violating they're citizens CREATOR GIVEN and CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED RIGHTS! I STRONGLY suspect MY governor, Ron DeSantis, WILL do so!!

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  • sam
    Lv 7
    6 days ago

    never............................................

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  • 6 days ago

    Not as long as the Liberals are trying to create a race war in the country.

  • Susie
    Lv 7
    6 days ago

    Stop crime first and then we’ll talk about banning law abiding citizens from having guns.  Crime is very much on the rise, yet all some want to do is ignore that and concentrate on getting guns out of the hands of law abiding citizens.  Why?

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