What's your opinion of gun control?

[TheButterZone]

So it's basically almost impossible to own a gun legally (many people own guns illegally tough). However, gun related deaths are pretty low.

GSW mortality rate is low and the majority of the time survivable, period. Guns aren't made to kill, otherwise no GSW would be survivable whether you were shot in the toe in a highest-level GSW trauma-certified emergency room, or in the early days of surgery. Many have been shot in the head and lived productive lives, too.

[BADecker]

In my country, to own a gun, you need:
1 a membership from a shooting range
2 you need to be active in the shooting range (at least a dozen times a year)
3 you need to take an exam every 5 years
4 you need to pay extra tax every 5 years
5 your doctor needs to sign a weaver that you are capable of owning a gun
6 you need a special cage to store your gun
7 you need a signature of every person over 18 years old, living in your house
8 certain calibers are just illegal, no normal civillian can own them... Period (it's pretty hard to own a firearm other than caliber 6 and 9 mm)
9 the amount of ammunition you can own is limited (i think you can have 10.000 cartridges as a private citizen)
So it's basically almost impossible to own a gun legally (many people own guns illegally tough). However, gun related deaths are pretty low.
EDIT: even after all these thing, the government can change gun controll laws whenever they want. If you stop complying to the new laws, you have to turn in your firearm with the police for free, even when you bought it legally... (this actually happened on  two occasions the last couple of years)

What is "legal?" All legal is, is some people telling some other people what to do.

If you want to be a person who adheres to legal, all that means is that you want the right to tell others what to do and to be told what to do by others.

It is lawful for everyone to own guns, even though it might not be legal.

What gives anyone the right to tell anyone else what to do with their lives or property? Nothing.

Every legal action is unlawful in some ways, even though it might be lawful in other ways. Legal has to do with taking the rights away from some people while enhancing the rights of others.

Owning guns might be illegal in some areas or ways, but it is lawful.

[Wilikon]

Lego Sets Are Becoming Much More Violent
A new study found that the number of Lego weapons has skyrocketed since 1970.

    In what may be a sad reflection of society as a whole, a new study has found Legos have become increasingly more violent in the last 30 years.

    The study, conducted by the University of Canterbury, looked at the number weapons included in Lego kits produced since 1978 (the first year weapons were available) and the perceived violence in imagery created by the company. It found an “exponential increases of violence over time” in both categories.

    While the iconic, brightly colored toy blocks have existed since 1949, the first weapons weren’t introduced until 1978, when a castle kit included “a sword, a halberd, and a lance.”

    The number of Lego weapons overall has increased greatly since then. Researchers found that nearly 30 percent of all Lego sets sold today now include at least one weapon. In 1978, that figure was under 5 percent.

    The researchers only looked at smaller, pre-manufactured weapons that are one brick large (guns, cannons, swords, etc.) and excluded larger weapons that have to be assembled.

    That means the Death Star — which by conventional standards is “certainly a weapon,” the study concedes — isn’t included in the total weapons count. The light saber introduced in the “Star Wars” kit, however, is considered a weapon.

    The study also looked at imagery produced by Lego that accompanies the sets, and found it has become more violent as well.

    Today, close to 40 percent of all the images in the Lego catalog contain some sort of violence, the study found, with the fastest growth occurring in cases of shooting.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lego-sets-violent-study_us_57431aa5e4b0613b512ac4c4?mkwm7mqat169cz0k9

[BADecker]

Lego Sets Are Becoming Much More Violent
A new study found that the number of Lego weapons has skyrocketed since 1970.

    In what may be a sad reflection of society as a whole, a new study has found Legos have become increasingly more violent in the last 30 years.

    The study, conducted by the University of Canterbury, looked at the number weapons included in Lego kits produced since 1978 (the first year weapons were available) and the perceived violence in imagery created by the company. It found an “exponential increases of violence over time” in both categories.

    While the iconic, brightly colored toy blocks have existed since 1949, the first weapons weren’t introduced until 1978, when a castle kit included “a sword, a halberd, and a lance.”

    The number of Lego weapons overall has increased greatly since then. Researchers found that nearly 30 percent of all Lego sets sold today now include at least one weapon. In 1978, that figure was under 5 percent.

    The researchers only looked at smaller, pre-manufactured weapons that are one brick large (guns, cannons, swords, etc.) and excluded larger weapons that have to be assembled.

    That means the Death Star — which by conventional standards is “certainly a weapon,” the study concedes — isn’t included in the total weapons count. The light saber introduced in the “Star Wars” kit, however, is considered a weapon.

    The study also looked at imagery produced by Lego that accompanies the sets, and found it has become more violent as well.

    Today, close to 40 percent of all the images in the Lego catalog contain some sort of violence, the study found, with the fastest growth occurring in cases of shooting.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lego-sets-violent-study_us_57431aa5e4b0613b512ac4c4?mkwm7mqat169cz0k9

People are simply starting to recognize that the top end of government is full of crooks and potential criminals. If we are going to have war all the time, let's at least have a fighting chance, and let's direct the war against the crooks and criminals.

[TECSHARE]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-05-23/prescription-pain-killers-far-riskier-gun-ownership

[kryptqnick]

In my country you can't have a gun at home, or even if you can, it is really hard to get a licence or something. And there were no cases with kids using such weapon at school, or grown-ups at cinemas.

[BADecker]

In my country you can't have a gun at home, or even if you can, it is really hard to get a licence or something. And there were no cases with kids using such weapon at school, or grown-ups at cinemas.

Too bad. Gun freedom in America is helping to keep the world free.   

[TECSHARE]

In my country you can't have a gun at home, or even if you can, it is really hard to get a licence or something. And there were no cases with kids using such weapon at school, or grown-ups at cinemas.

So what country are you from? I am willing to bet it does not have anywhere near 300 million people from differing economic, social, religious, racial, and ideological backgrounds. I am also willing to bet the over all per-capita crime rate is similar to the USA if not worse.

[C10H15N]

In my country you can't have a gun at home, or even if you can, it is really hard to get a licence or something. And there were no cases with kids using such weapon at school, or grown-ups at cinemas.

Too bad. Gun freedom in America is helping to keep the world free.   

...and more importantly, keep the United States of America free.  A proper government should should ALWAYS fear its people - not the other way around. 

[Spendulus]

In my country you can't have a gun at home, or even if you can, it is really hard to get a licence or something. And there were no cases with kids using such weapon at school, or grown-ups at cinemas.

Consider yourself lucky.

[truongdhnh]

The gun control that politicians talk about usually is nothing than grandstanding on their part and contributes nothing to a solution. The problem with any violent act is the violent person. Politicians do not know what to do with people. They attack where they give a perception of action and say "Look what I did". The next time something happens they will say they wanted to do more but were denied due to the other political side, lobbyist, etc. A million guns laid out on the street are as dangerous as a million bottles of whiskey or a million cars, a million knives, nooses or books. All can cause harm only when picked up and used recklessly or with malicious intent. Take every gun from society and bad people will still do bad things.

[BADecker]

The gun control that politicians talk about usually is nothing than grandstanding on their part and contributes nothing to a solution. The problem with any violent act is the violent person. Politicians do not know what to do with people. They attack where they give a perception of action and say "Look what I did". The next time something happens they will say they wanted to do more but were denied due to the other political side, lobbyist, etc. A million guns laid out on the street are as dangerous as a million bottles of whiskey or a million cars, a million knives, nooses or books. All can cause harm only when picked up and used recklessly or with malicious intent. Take every gun from society and bad people will still do bad things.

It's worse than that. Here's why.

If a crook harms someone or damage his property, gun or no gun, basic law says that the crook should pay, one way or another. And the payment amount should be up to a jury or the injured party.

Much of the legal/political system has made the punishment for any crime to be way less than an amount that can sufficiently compensate the injured person.

It isn't gun control that the political system is after. It is people control they are after. And why? Same as any other corporation... profits.

[TECSHARE]

Additionally, the codified legal process is punitive, not restorative. So if there are any fines to be levied, they go to the government, not the victim. Any profits earned from the labor of the prisoner go to private corporations, not the victims. What does the victim gain from the incarceration of the perpetrator other than the small piece of mind that they are not roaming the streets for an indefinite and short period of time?

[C10H15N]

My newest handgun: Nothing like a fine German weapon to defend my American freedom. 

[apollofire]

Guns should be banned forever. It should be implemented asap

[Spendulus]

Guns should be banned forever. It should be implemented asap

But that would take people with guns to do the banning.

[Daniel91]

Guns should be banned forever. It should be implemented asap

Can you explain it more, please?
If you think that average people don't need guns, I can agree with you but if you think that nobody should have any weapons, police, army, hunters etc. I don't think it's realistic idea.
Also, in some countries like USA it's way of life, even protected by the constitution, that people can have guns so I don't think this can change so easy.
It's eternal question if the state can prohibit that people own a gun for self-defense, specially if they live in not secure areas.

[BADecker]

Guns should be banned forever. It should be implemented asap

More important, evil should be banned forever.

Death should be banned forever.

Stupidity should be banned forever.

Lack of freedom should be banned forever.

Space travel should be refined and encouraged forever. One of the ways to do it is by building big guns in the ground, or up the sides of mountains, and shooting space capsules into space.

Guns, especially big ones, should be refined and encouraged forever.

[Wilikon]

Busted: Katie Couric Gun Control Film Manipulated Audio to Discredit Second Amendment Defenders



Audio proof has emerged proving that pro-gun voices were edited — making respondents appear stumped or unsure — in Katie Couric’s gun control film, Under the Gun.

Breitbart News previously reported that Katie Couric omitted a four-hour interview that had been done with gun scholar John Lott Jr. The Guardian spoke with director Stephanie Soechtig regarding the decision to leave Lott out of the movie, and Soechtig said:

    [Lott’s] research has been criticized and largely discredited, and when we went to include it in the film, it felt like unnecessary real estate to put in the film, because we know his research has been debunked many times. We kept going back to the idea that we wanted to reserve the real estate in the film for the responsible gun owners.

Now, the Washington Free Beacon reports that Lott was by no means the only pro-gun person affected by the director’s cut, ostensibly for giving answers that did not jive with Couric and Soechtig’s predetermined goals.

The Beacon published audio in which Couric can be heard asking a group of pro-gun individuals how “terrorists or felons” can be prevented from buying guns if there are no background checks? The individuals can immediately be heard telling her there are already laws on the books “at the federal and state level” that prohibit felons and certain other criminals from buying guns. “These things are already illegal.”

Other voices can be heard defending citizens who have been accused but not convicted. One of the same voices emphasizes that background checks cannot catch latent criminals, only actual ones; that the government does not have the ability to predict who will be a felon and deny Second Amendment rights based on that prediction.

However, in the portion of the film in which Couric asks the question about background checks, the pro-gun responses were delayed, giving the impression that the pro-gun individuals were stumped or unsure. The Hollywood Reporter indicates the added delay lasts eight seconds. During the delay, a video loop plays, presenting the pro-gun individuals as silent, unable to answer Couric’s question on background checks.




http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2016/05/25/katie-couric-edited-pro-gun-voices-gun-control-film/

[BreakPOINT]

Guns are made for one purpose, and that purpose is to kill.
I believe that guns are not weapons, they are tools. How they are used is up to the person holding it.
Guns are especially dangerous in the hands of people who don't know how to use them (i.e., kids and teenagers) as well as those who are mentally ill and/or have a temper problem.
Gun control will not stop violence because a violent person doesn’t need a gun to be violent.
After the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, support for gun control increased dramatically.

Generally in America, the support for gun control has outweighed the support for gun rights.
Are gun control laws constitutional?
What would be your ideal set of laws regarding firearms?

It's a complicated issue. Guns probably shouldn't be as readily available as they are. We have major problems with gun violence that other developed nations don't have. But the NRA is absurdly powerful and lots of people feel incredibly strongly that guns should be allowed.It's a complicated issue. Guns probably shouldn't be as readily available as they are. We have major problems with gun violence that other developed nations don't have. But the NRA is absurdly powerful and lots of people feel incredibly strongly that guns should be allowed.