Should Laws Regarding Gun Ownership Be Tightened Up?

[tinfoilhat]

All the USA need to do is make them illegal to sell.

 

Yeah, redraft the American constitution where a significant chunk of the population are quite happy with gun control as it is. Easy peasy. Obama - you know, the guy running place, put some controls that's effectively been over turned by congress and/or individual states.

 

It's not happening. It's never happening. But we don't live there so who gives ****??

[taxman]

Six shotguns, nine rifles and three revolvers.

 

And about thirty air rifles.

 

Bit of a nut job then eh?

 

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One step they could take is to set up a nationwide register of people with mental health issues which preclude them owning a gun. The right to bear arms should only extend to sane people.

 

That would be like a National Health Service type thing? Only those in the US who insist every nutjob and crazy person is legally entitled to have thirteen semi automatic machine guns for personal protection are the exact same ones who are campaigning against a national health scheme that could identify people with mental problems.

 

Go figure

[Harleyman]

That is, anywhere that guns are generally available.

 

If the gun stores all closed down then they would probably come across the border from Mexico or Canada just like booze did during prohibition

 

It's pretty sickening what's going on and there's no real silver bullet to put an end to it. Half the world should be certified already and a good proportion of that committed to institutions for the criminally insane.

 

Americans are not submissive by nature and they don't like their rights mucked around with. Guns for sport, hunting and protection are regarded as a right

 

Someone on the thread blamed all this on Hollywood and the culture of violence in entertainment. I place it mainly on the internet. Most of these loonies get their inspiration from that source

[tinfoilhat]

If the gun stores all closed down then they would probably come across the border from Mexico or Canada just like booze did during prohibition

 

It's pretty sickening what's going on and there's no real silver bullet to put an end to it. Half the world should be certified already and a good proportion of that committed to institutions for the criminally insane.

 

Americans are not submissive by nature and they don't like their rights mucked around with. Guns for sport, hunting and protection are regarded as a right

 

Someone on the thread blamed all this on Hollywood and the culture of violence in entertainment. I place it mainly on the internet. Most of these loonies get their inspiration from that source

 

Would you buy an illegal gun from Mexico or Canada if guns were banned? Would you know where to get one?

[Harleyman]

Bit of a nut job then eh?

 

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That would be like a National Health Service type thing? Only those in the US who insist every nutjob and crazy person is legally entitled to have thirteen semi automatic machine guns for personal protection are the exact same ones who are campaigning against a national health scheme that could identify people with mental problems.

 

Go figure

 

 

 

Some gun enthusiasts collect all kinds of weapons and never even harm a cat. It only takes a single weapon to kill several people. Where's the connection between umpteen guns and being allowed only one weapon

[Obelix]

Bit of a nut job then eh?

 

On the contrary you have to be rather stable to have a firearms certificate in the UK as well you know. Shacking as it may seem holding firearms is more common than you think and shooting clubs are open to everyone.

[Harleyman]

Would you buy an illegal gun from Mexico or Canada if guns were banned? Would you know where to get one?

 

I already own a couple of legally purchased firearms so banning them wouldn't affect me.

 

There would probably be a whole market for smuggled guns if a ban were to take place. With the right amount of money finding where to get one wouldn't be that hard.

[JFKvsNixon]

To stop deranged gunmen rampaging around American schools killing people, it seems like it'll be easier to ban schools than ban guns. It's a crazy world that we love in.

[Harleyman]

On the contrary you have to be rather stable to have a firearms certificate in the UK as well you know. Shacking as it may seem holding firearms is more common than you think and shooting clubs are open to everyone.

 

Not always like that. It was only the inbred aristocratic half wits who were allowed firearms mainly to shoot deer or pheasant and after the American and French revolutions against any of the peasantry who might just get the same ideas into their heads

 

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To stop deranged gunmen rampaging around American schools killing people, it seems like it'll be easier to ban schools than ban guns. It's a crazy world that we love in.

 

There was a suggestion at one time that teachers and school security be allowed to carry firearms.

 

The idea never went very far. Some teachers recoiled from the idea and school districts found it too complicated a matter to hire and arm school guards.

 

It's hard for normal, sane members of society to accept such a scenario but we live in often strange and horrible times. People need to come to terms with and accept that. Whoever would have thought not that long ago that airline pilots would be armed and cockpit doors locked and barred like a bank vault but no one bats an eyelid these days do they?

[Obelix]

Not always like that. It was only the inbred aristocratic half wits who were allowed firearms mainly to shoot deer or pheasant and after the American and French revolutions against any of the peasantry who might just get the same ideas into their heads

 

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There was a suggestion at one time that teachers and school security be allowed to carry firearms.

 

The idea never went very far. Some teachers recoiled from the idea and school districts found it too complicated a matter to hire and arm school guards.

 

It's hard for normal, sane members of society to accept such a scenario but we live in often strange and horrible times. People need to come to terms with and accept that. Whoever would have thought not that long ago that airline pilots would be armed and cockpit doors locked and barred like a bank vault but no one bats an eyelid these days do they?

 

Are you still banging on about how the common man cant own a gun in the UK? Change the record it's been proven to you many times before you have no clue what you are talking about.