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SamuelRSmith on 22 May 2012
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Mr Khan said:
mrstickball said:
curl-6 said:
SamuelRSmith said:

Yeah, people can still have guns... but it's not treated like a right


Nor should it be in my view.

The average human being is too stupid and irresponsible to be trusted with something so dangerous.


And yet, the cities that have restricted gun ownership, and/or states always have the higher crime in the US..

Is that a symptom of the ban or a reason behind the gun ban attempts?

Honestly i'd rather have it so that an 11-year-old can't just pick up a shotgun lying around the house to murder his pregnant stepmother, as was the case in my hometown a few years back (the trial for which was only finally resolved), and half the reason that local or state gun bans don't work is that the criminals who need them just go out of town/out of state. If they had to leave the country, now, that would be something.

Banning guns won't eradicate them at all. I'm in the UK, where guns have been heavily restricted for quite some time, and yet illegal gun factories are still all over the place... one was shut down nearby me a while ago.

Plus, you've already got millions of guns across the country... waht, you're going to force everybody in the nation to hand their guns in? Not going to happen. Even so, criminals will just use the southern border, or the Gulf coast. It's physically impossible to "ban" guns.

Also, Chicago had a handgun ban in place for 30 years, and crime rates increased. I think the ban was recently lifted, due to a Supreme Court ruling, let's see how the trends go over the next few years.