... I work in a poor inner city area now... and that's why I know gun control would be a VERY bad thing.

In such areas half the time the police don't come until an hour or two after you call them. (I know... i've had to.)

Essenetially if you don't own a weapon and someone wants to attack, rape or kill you... there is a good chance you are fucked.  (Thankfully it's only involved customers not myself.)

and... by the time the police get there.  You are lucky if you don't end up as the one shot if you look a specific way. 

Most everyone I know in that neighberhood owns a gun or some other type of weapon... and they don't want the police in there house... because they feel like they can't trust them.

They buy them second hand off each other all the time too from what i could tell... despite nevada being a REALLY easy place to get a gun first hand.

I am sitting her trying to question why I got myself stuck in a political discussion, lol.

A good guy with a bomb could have been able to stop the tragedy in boston

There isn't much really that would have prevented the tragedy that occured in Boston.

Guns are more about at-home protection.

That has got to be one of the most ridiculous counter arguments I have ever witnessed. I'm going to print this off to show my coworkers because I don't think they'll believe that anyone would say something like that.

Are you actually just trying to troll the thread at this point?  I mean... we're prety lenient with political threads.... but I mean... seriously?

If you can't argue intellegently... it's just time for you to step away.

good for you

Woah, when did Kasz become a mod? I've been away too long.

on topic: I guess the main reason people are against it from what I'm reading is that it won't change anything, and it won't stop criminals. Therefore, we should not try to put more backgrounds checks, because doing so would be uh... burdensome on current owners?

Just making sure I have the argument against universal background checks correct.

I think its slightly more than that. the cost of the background checks was excessive (more than the cost of the guns). they also didn't gurantee that the  information would be destroyed and not used to make a gun regristy list, or for other reasons besides guns (i believe even the ACLU mentioned this). I think most people support universal background checks, as long as they are done in an affordable way, and as long as they dont make a gun regristry list, or use the background checks for other reasons.

Think about the old west (if you are not American use google).  There were very few laws.  Ppl got by in life by being strong and smart.  Point being if everyone is a well armed well trained person, you can then remove laws and everyone will leave each other alone because they don't wanna die.  Your argument is theory.  Mine is fact proven by American history.  Bad stuff will always happen but fear and loss of liberty is unnessassry.