Comments on: Do You Believe Gun Control is an Effective way to Prevent Crime?

By: Flu-Bird

Flu-Bird — Mon, 18 May 2009 06:22:27 +0000

Only a total idiot would belive that a total ban on guns would reduce crime and the liberals are idiots totaly

By: pyazz maehmuuuuuud

pyazz maehmuuuuuud — Fri, 08 May 2009 07:16:34 +0000

This was actually very boring, because it didn’t stand nothing about onion, and i love onion, onion is my passion. God demn!
(BTW, next time write about onion)

By: 300 Lbs Parakeet

300 Lbs Parakeet — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:48:00 +0000

If you think that if all guns are banned everyone would be all kissing and hugging on some dumb hippy built BRIDGE OF FREINDSHIP then your spedning too much time living in stupidland smoking wacky weed from your hooka

By: Gr. 9 Student

Gr. 9 Student — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:44:15 +0000

Nope. Its not guns that kill people, people kill people, guns cant do any harm without people helping them, which is why blaming handguns for violence is ridiculous. If someone really wants to hurt people or like to create violence there are alternate ways, and its a fact that knives and clubs are used in violence more than four times than guns. The government thinks that if all citizens do have handguns that the percentage of deaths will increase. The reason that citizens need handguns is for protection, and ninety percent of all uses of guns in self-defence do not actually involve firing the weapon. When an assailant sees or even hears the gun they will usually be gone before you can point the gun, but if not, it is not likely that they would be willing to risk their life to get your wallet or television or whatever they are after, especially if they don’t have their gun or weapon out, ready to use. The government seems to think that we are all trigger happy, but even for self-protection people will hold off pulling the trigger until the very last moment, but ninety percent of the time that moment never comes. Technically, the more guns that there are, the less crime there will be. Crime Statistics of Canada prove that there is an increase in the numbers of victims because with the gun law in affect people are unarmed and unable to defend themselves. If there wasn’t a gun control law then just knowing that someone may have a gun hidden would help keep the crime rate down. Currently the government deems self-protection to be an insufficient reason for owning a handgun. If we are not allowed to carry a handgun then how else do they propose we effectively protect ourselves? It’s not like we are going to be always carrying a long gun with us where ever we go, and if someone were to be in need of protection against an assailant, and the victim had a knife or a weapon along that line, against an assailant with a gun, it is more likely that the victim would end up injured than any harm being done to the assailant. The gun control law does not keep criminals from having guns and it doesn’t help to reduce crime. The gun laws only affect people that abide by the law. Assailants with guns could not care less that there is a gun control law that they are breaking, it’s not like that would be the only law they would end up breaking, and probably not the worst law either. 1. The registration of all handguns has been required by federal law since 1934, and since 1968 permits to carry them have been restricted to a few specific circumstances, examples include use in target practice or competition, protection in extreme cases where police protection isn’t adequate and in certain jobs such as transporting large amounts of cash or other valuables. This law has not prevented a single gun crime, but what is has done instead is created an expensive and useless gun registry system that has cost Canadian taxpayers billions of dollars. We think that everyone agrees that violence is awful and it is out of control, but by having gun control laws it is just making it harder for everyone to protect themselves.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:28:13 +0000

“long” if you had a gun with you that problem would have been avoided

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:22:41 +0000

Marzy you are messed up

By: Glidedon

Glidedon — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:09:09 +0000

@Long

You had better rethink that thought.

By: Long

Long — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:41:21 +0000

I just had a gun pulled on me tonight by some random person for no reason. That wouldn’t had happened if there was gun control

By: Sam Nicholl

Sam Nicholl — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:51:21 +0000

Why I carry a gun

I don’t carry a gun to kill people.
I carry a gun to keep from being killed.

I don’t carry a gun to scare people.
I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place.

I don’t carry a gun because I’m paranoid.
I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world.

I don’t carry a gun because I’m evil.
I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the world.

I don’t carry a gun because I hate the government.
I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.

I don’t carry a gun because I’m angry.
I carry a gun so that I don’t have to spend the rest of my life hating myself for failing to be prepared.

I don’t carry a gun because I want to shoot someone.
I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed, and not on a sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon.

I don’t carry a gun because I’m a cowboy.
I carry a gun because, when I die and go to heaven, I want to be a cowboy.

I don’t carry a gun to make me feel like a man.
I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the ones they love.

I don’t carry a gun because I feel inadequate.
I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am inadequate.

I don’t carry a gun because I love it.
I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful to me.

Police Protection is an oxymoron. Free citizens must protect themselves.
Police do not protect you from crime, they usually just investigate the crime after it happens and then call someone in to clean up the mess.

Personally, I carry a gun because I’m too young to die and too old to take an ass whoopin’.

By: Robert Walborn

Robert Walborn — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:01:22 +0000

More new Gun control laws can achieve nothing but make criminals out of law abiding citizens that want to hunt, target shoot or protect themselves in their own homes. The government does not have the means to enforce the laws they have now. Cases in point . Look at the rise in crime rates of Canada and Australia after the enactment of strong firearm laws and firearm banning. In the U.S. the crime rate dropped radically in states that passed a right to carry law.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:52:45 +0000

The ammount of crime would not decrease as not all crimes commited have a fire arem involved.

Also, making a law to prenvent people from having / using a gun is just the same as illegalizing drugs, people whom abide by the law will not have or use them. the ammount of crimes they commit would not change either as they don’t commit crimes.

People that don’t abide by the law (ie. people that commit crimes.) would continue to have guns because the lack of legality would not be an issue to them and likely would cause an increase as they would be reassured that their desired victim would very likely be un-armed and unable to protect themselves.

By: Kyle Teachman

Kyle Teachman — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:22:25 +0000

I think gun control is something that needs to be done, but I don’t think that completely eliminating guns, or near eliminating them is the answer. There just needs to be strict enforcement and crackdown.

By: sg

sg — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:08:00 +0000

I read in the Wall Street Journal that a federal judge ordered some Gitmo prisoners to be released into the US since no other country would take them.

My grandfather told my mother that she would live in the age of educated fools. Now I do.

Since our judiciary is now less interested in protecting my kids than those who would shoot my kids, I am going be sure my kids can shoot back.

Last week, I bought a rifle, shotgun, 9mm to protect my family and a BBgun for my son.

I was never interested in owning guns until this last election.

By: D0M1N8R

D0M1N8R — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:45:00 +0000

I think more strict gun control is necessary in some states. A good background check and medical check for mental issues should be required. I have a gun and don’t think taking guns away with a ban is the answer. Instead having more control on who you give them to making sure that law abiding citizens with stable mental health can access them is a much better way of doing things.

By: Joseph DeFazio

Joseph DeFazio — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 01:27:46 +0000

I don’t believe gun control will really help prevent crimes. A gun is just one of the many weapons available, and crimes cans still be committed without any weapons at all.