NRA Gun Control Fight Protects Criminals, and Congress Must Act

Gun Control Kills

Gun control affects law abiding citizens not the criminals. You want to reduce the illegal guns reduce the drugs, reduce the gangs, and arm all the law abiding people so that they will not be victims. Most of gun crimes are happening in drug environment, gang environment and places where guns are banned like schools. Liberal media highlights those handful of crimes that are happening in normal environment so that they can market their stupid idea. Crime are less where regular law abiding people are armed and can defend themselves.

Is there a lot of crime in Switzerland? Have you heard crimes in shooting ranges where a lot of people have guns? Is there a lot of crime here in Kennesaw GA wherein the city ask every head of the household to own a weapon? If you think it is so easy to acquire guns here in the US try getting one. You have to go through a lot of background checks. You can only buy certain weapons. Try getting muzzle breaks and sound suppresors so that you can control your shooting better. You cannot just simply transfer weapons or trade weapons across state lines. There so much restriction already but it is only affecting us law abiding people. Criminals do not. And you want to further put more gun control that again will not affect the criminals but will affect law abiding people like me?

De-arming the citizenry is about control nothing more. If you really want gun crimes reduced, we have to eliminate the drug industry in our country, reduce the gangs , let the people who are lawful to carry weapons carry it everywhere. Promote gun wonership to all law abiding people and develop their rifleman skills so that they can always protect themselves against domestic and foreign criminals. And defend themselves against the people that want to get rid of their rights like John W. Mashek and Barrack Obama.

Stricter gun laws wont help

Its easier to buy a gun on the street than to shop for one in a store. Gun laws only effect the law abiding citizen or the unlawful who gets caught. Either way if someone wants a gun it only takes 15 minutes to get one. Cash and Carry. No background checks, no wait period, no nothing. The criminal is less likely to try to rob a armed person than an unarmed one. They want to go home too. I would rather register guns than restrict them. Atleast with open carry states the criminal thinks twice before making a move. If you dont believe me just ask one. Those who fight for more gun control are just sheep waiting. I would rather be the shepard.

Criminals

The author of this article thinks criminals buy their guns legally, they don't. Criminals buy their guns from the trunk of a car on the "black market" if you take guns from law abiding citizens then the criminals will rule the streets.

gun control

Sometimes when i read articles like this it makes me wish I could find the person who wrote it and slap them for their idiocy.

A Powerful Lobby

The shear power of this lobby is reflected in the fact of the NRA stymieing the gun debate in spite of the fact that there is overwhelming public support for stricter gun control laws in this country. This stranglehold of congress unfortunately shows a flaw in our campaign laws that the Supreme Court has erred in allowing to happen in my opinion.

for Grundy

Your very naive if you think the majority of gun owners are criminals. The author was vague on purpose because there aren't many crazy gun owners. And for the record now you are outright lying. Most gun owners aren't criminals. period, its a fact get it through your head

Gun Control

Lessons learned from Vietnam. NONE.

Bush screwed up bad,

not taking care of business in Afghanistan and in lying to the American people.

But forget the Middle east for a minute.

Our government LED by GEORGE BUSH, would not secure our border with Mexico. He should have been impeached and convicted.

Our government allows cities to openly flaunt Federal law by harboring illegal aliens.

Mexico is a corrupt nation.

We cannot help them when they are so corrupt/ powerless they cannot help themselves. We cannot even help ourselves.

Our governments are eunuchs in defending us against drug crime.

We must be ready to defend ourselves

We need Border Control and Crime control, not Gun Control!

In the long run, Nancy Pelosi and company will prove to be more of a threat to our freedoms than Bin Laden has ever been!

Looking for Good Solutions

The problem is too many guns in too many wrong hands; rational people can agree on that. So, what do we do now? That's the place to start. If laws are not effective then what is?

The best way for responsible gun owners to hang on to the firearms they want is to work to find reasonable solutions to the excessive production, trade and use of weaponry for the desperate, ruthless, rageful or criminal groups & individuals throughout the world. New thinking is needed. Old ideas aren't working with today's challenges. The NRA & those who support its philosophies will soon be passe, irrelevant & useless if they do not face up to & effectively address the new realities and threats posed by the huge growth of firearms &sophisticated weaponry now in the hands of so many. History will pass them by. Problems are far too complicated and real to indulge anymore those who offer only angry rants, tired slogans, threats of violence and denial of reality. America can't afford it. The NRA etal must sincerely engage in honest efforts to solve the increasing problems from firearms if they want to retain any credibility at all. If laws are not effective then what is? Join efforts to find reasonable, effective answers.

That's the best way to protect the rights of responsible gun owners.

To Carson

Ah, the old Bill Clinton defense. I'm surprised you would try the same strategy as that honored Democrat. Try the dictionary. By any definition of the word and this circumstance, any number of deadly weapons in the hands of people that have no regard for human life is many. I can't believe you would go to such extreme measures to try to defend criminals.

response

I guess that depends on your definition of many. I would call many a significant portion and a significant portion of weapons are not in the hands of those with no regard for human life. It is therefore a lie