Weak Gun Control Laws Show America is Crazy, Numb to Violence

The guns that are used in most violent crimes in Canada are manufactured and sold in the USA which are then smuggled over the border. It's really quite simple; if handguns were not sold in the US there would be far fewer deaths by gun shot in both countries. Handguns are easily concealed; it takes approximately 2.2 lbs of pressure to shoot. In a flash of a moment anyone over the age of 4 has the power to shoot a gun.

I think that part of the constitution was just fine when it was written, but is not relevant now.

CKing of IA 3:24PM December 30, 2010

Might I say that all you have said is wonderful and well meaning, however, you have not once addressed the simple fact that it is an unalienable right (as stated in the Constitution) to own and bare arms. until the fill good people like yourself and a few liberal politicians change this unalienable right, or until all criminals everywhere have laid down their guns, I think that i shall continue to observe the right to bare arms.

No amount of feel good philosphy is going to change the fact that crime exist, and has existed from the times of Cain and Abel, when there were no guns.

D.G. Isch of NM 2:50AM May 17, 2010

Killing a human being puts you directly in the shoes of a criminal so to speak. It really doesn’t make you any better than a criminal himself, carrying a concealed or openly carried firearm only puts you on the list of those who add to the murder’s who kill people with a gun for your own protection.

Coffee shop giant Starbucks Corp. was forced recently to wade into the gun rights debate, reluctantly saying it would allow customers to openly carry firearms into its stores, as long as they are in compliance with local laws. “I don’t think having at the next table a guy with a gun is a relaxing way to drink a coffee,” said Jill Lucas of the group Protest Easy Guns, which is pressing for more background checks on gun owners and tougher gun control laws as a way to stem gun violence. Come on really, who’s going to rob you in a coffee store. They ask for your wallet or all your money more than anything. Oh, my life is over he took something I can replace, why would you carry tons of money with you any way, your just asking to get robbed by doing that. A restaurant or coffee place or bowling alley or even a pizza place, these are all suppose to be relaxing places to enjoy yourself but when people have guns that vanishes completely.

Carrying a gun out in the open is telling people you have a right to kill someone if you feel it is necessary. The increase in carrying firearms in the open only increases the death rate by a gun, 100 times what it is now. Carrying a gun around you makes others uneasy and not even noncriminal people would want to be around you. “It’s a personal responsibility to defend your life in the event of an attack.” 23 year old student Elizabeth Webb. When defending your life, you would fight with your fists and feet. Using a gun to kill the attacker only puts bloodshed on your hands which not necessary. Killing someone is something that just doesn’t go away it is branded in your brain.

AJ of MI 10:22AM March 22, 2010

now, i won't claim that i completely understand and know how to solve all of our governments problems (i mean, i'm just a 15 year old high school student who just happens to be researching this topic for her pre ap english 2 essay) but i have an opinion of my own.

you know how there's always the 4 groups of people who are always saying either:

1. "guns don't kill people, people kill people"

2. "having a gun makes me feel safer"

3. "if you take the guns away from all the civilians and law abiders, then it will only incourage people to commit more crimes"

4. "guns are the cause of evrything, get rid of them and everything will be better" (i personaly think this group is retarded)

well:

1. yes, true. but guns are one of the most convenient weapons and make killing in bulk extremely easy

2. how many people have you ever heard actually succeding in protecting themselves with there conceled carry? really now.

3. this one i agree with the most but wtf else can the gov do? if they sat around and did nothing, all the people would revolt. so instead of sitting there and complaining about what they ARE trying to do to help us, actually try to help by giving them ideas on how else they could do something that actualy might help.

4. that's just a load of BS. the people who think that haven't actually looked into the problem very much and don't seem to really care about solving it. either that or like i said earlier, they are retards. if you take away all the guns, as seen in australia, all hell will break loose and we'll end up in an even worse situation (if that's even possible). try using your brain befor spewing all this bull caca out of it. you might soil someone.

all i'm trying to say is, quite debating about it and DO SOMETHING instead!!!

dipstickland of TX 4:35PM December 30, 2009