crissindahouse said:
superchunk said:
crissindahouse said:
superchunk said:
Agree with others as this has nothing to do with gun control and everything to do with parenting.
1) If you are a gun owner, your children must be taught about guns and gun safety.
2) If you are a gun owner, you should NEVER simply lay your gun down on a table where others can grab it.
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sure but this would still not happen with a gun law like "you can't have a gun at home", if he wouldn't have one illegally then.
it's like people could drive as fast as they want in a city and if they have an accident "it's not a law issue, the driver should know that he can't drive so fast in a city"
but maybe it was the mother? telling the son "you have to say the police what i say you now" damn no clue but it's hard to belive that a kid like this takes the pistol and kills his father because he didn't get a playstation. I'm pretty sure the kid didn't understand that he won't see his father anymore for the rest of his life but it's crazy that he knew how to use the weapon when angry...
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More kids drown each year in their own pools than kids that shoot people. Should we also make it illegal to not have personal pools?
No, we teach kids how to swim.
Every human has the right to protect themselves and their property. That is the purpose of a gun at home. Nations where you can't own a gun do not make the citizens safer. It just makes them more vulnerable to government.
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lol but guns have only one reason, they are made to shoot on other people. i love the logic of people from countries were weapons are allowed in every household. i love how americans always talk about their stupid right to protect their house. nobod is taking your house when you get robbed. the only reason people get killed in robberies are when they try to defend themselve. too funny that in other countries people don't have to protect their house with a weapon...and you are totally wrong that people aren't safer in countries without weapons, that's just not true.
"freedom to have the right to have a weapon at home" lacks every logic. we aren't in the wild west where we have to own a gun to protect us. you get robbed? then let them take what they want and you get it back from insurance...
you know what the problem with weapons is? if you have one at home and you have big problems in your life you are more likely to do bad things with it than if you don't have a weapon and you would have to finde someone to sell you a weapon illegally. people lose their job or so and then they see their wepon at home and think "i will rob a bank". if they wouldn't have the weapon most wouldn't go to a weapon dealer to buy one illegaly.
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The reason people go on about gun laws isn't because they have the capacity to kill, its because of innocent deaths and accidents. Just like kids drowning in pools.
However, you teach kids to swim, they don't drown. You teach kids about guns and gun safety, they don't die or kill by accident.
The analogy is fine, its the crazy thought that removing the freedom to protect yourself, family, and property with a gun will actually making you safer that is flawed.
People will commit crime regardless if they have a gun or not. In fact most crimes are committed without guns in the US. Just like every nation that makes gun ownership illegal. Difference is, if someone robs my house, I can shoot them. If someone or a group of people barge in to take my child, rape my wife/daughter.. I can shoot them. Granted, even with my gun, those things can still happen. But if someone intent on a crime knows I have a gun, they are less likely to attack me. Just like if they see I have an alarm system on my house or car. Primarily its a deterrent. Insurance doesn't cover everything. I was robbed once on a trip to Disneyland. Guess what, insurance doesn't cover the $500 in clothes and shoes I had re-buy because some piece of shit took my families stuff. Insurance can't replace a child or their mental state after rape. However, owning a gun and letting it be known is a great deterrent to not being a victim.
I've never really looked into it, but I bet the UK has just as much crime as the US when population is equaled. I also bet that any gun-free nation with a significantly lower crime rate, like UAE, has many other factors that reduce that and nothing to do with gun laws.
