Mr Khan said:
kain_kusanagi said:
Mr Khan said:
kain_kusanagi said:
Of everything I said, THAT is all you took from it? My point wasn't even against drug and alcohol laws. My point was that criminals break laws no matter how many laws you set.
Personally I'd rather live in a country where every good decent American owns a gun rather than a crack pipe. Drugs probably cause more gun violence than any other motive and legalizing drugs wouldn't stop that. Maybe if drugs were given out for free to all addicts, but that's a disgusting society I'd never want to be part of.
But, all that is beside the point. This topic is about a tragedy and gun laws. My heart breaks for the victims and victim's families of the Aurora Colorado shooting. My stance on gun control remains firm. You can't stop criminals from committing crimes with guns and you shouldn't stop good decent citizens from defending themselves. If anything more people should earn conceal carry permits.
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Right, so that the number of "justifiable homicides" can shoot up. Our nation's culture of vigilantism is the problem, and shouldn't be indulged. Even in the Wild West they knew well enough to have people check their weapons before coming into town.
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Would you rather trade justifiable homicides for plain old homicides? The thing about weapon checks is everybody gets checked. Right now there are probably more criminals walking around with guns than law abiding citizens. It's backwards. If put in the position I would rather commit justifiable homicide than be the victim of homicide. Would you not?
Oh and outside of movies like Back to the Future 3 I'm not sure where you are getting your history from. There may have been weapon checks here and there once in a while, but American towns did not have giant walls and guarded gates to maintain security and check for weapons. Private businesses may have asked customers to leave weapons outside, but cities as a whole did not.
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The famous shootout in Tombstone, Arizona for one revolved around the refusal of a small group of outlaws to abide by the local statute, with Wyatt Earp and other legally-entrusted individuals going to stop it.
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Like I said, here and there and once in a while. Tomb Stone was one very small town out of thousands in the West. Yeah it's famous, but it's a special case not the norm. It's famous for being a special case.
