I am in no way a gun nut, in fact I have never held or fired a gun. However, I would be remiss to not state that an all out ban would be horrible. A ban would only affect the law abiding citizens and not the criminals who will still have them. As citizens, we do not want unarmed law abiders. We are setting ourselves up for tyranny which is what the founding parents feared.
Tighter laws have been proven to be worthless, for example in NYC you need a license to even hold a handgun and it takes from a few weeks to a few months of meticulous checks to get the license. Yet criminals in NYC such as muggers etc are armed with pistols, I am pretty sure they didn't bother to get the proper license to own said pistols. A ban also wouldn't magically make those "mugger pistols" disappear. The sheer number of guns in the US is mind boggling, I remember reading about an Dept of Justice estimate that just in NYC there are about a million+ unregistered handguns. Wrap your head around that, at least a million.
Tighter laws have proved remarkably effective , just not in the US. I know banning guns won't make the illegal ones dissapear but something has to change somewhere . I cant tell you a fix but the current laws in the USA don't seem to be working.
I live in NY state and my license took 20 months. NYC a carry permit is not possible unless you're a millionaire and have connected friends. It is true about touch a gun though. You cant shoot one at a range under supervision of an officer or anyone. My wife can't go with me and shoot my gun anywhere in the state. If you're over 21 it is illegal to touch a handgun no matter what. I had to get a PA permit for her to legally learn how to use a gun.
No it won't. Legislation only effects those who follow the law. You're talking about mandatory inspections and locking up guns but who is inspectectong the illegal firearms? The ones that are responsible for most of the murders that contribute to the rates of gun deaths?
By making the guns harder to get for everyone and imposing stiffer sentencing for firearms offences then it would be a step in reduction .
Why are you unable to use common sense at all. A suicide bomber is the type that has the explosives in a range that will kill him/herself when detonated. Either on their person or within their reach. I'm thinking firing a hot round into that space would be less then successful at eliminating that problem. My point was pointing a gun at someone like that would be ineffective at best and counterproductive at worst. A trained person might, might just be able to stop such a thing, but, a common everyday citizen that happens to have a gun on them will not. They will create a bigger disaster then they will prevent. As a regular person I don't want a wanna be hero trying to save me, I'll take my chances with my own wits. If I'm successful great, if not, well I still have a better chance then some trigger happy person with a hero complex adding to the destruction.
Think about what you are saying. How do you identify a suicide bomber? How do you stop it before it happens? Just shoot everyone in the place in the hopes that one of them is the bomber? The bomb goes off and then you know who did it, not before. The only proactive action that we have is partially what this thread is about. Stopping people from bringing deadly weapons in to begin with will eliminate any of them from doing any damage. In other words, there is no reason to bring one into a theme park. With the crowd scenario the only thing that would possibly work is an explosion type of thing. As far as taking away weapons at the door, who would get the responsibility of thinking "oh, that guy looks safe enough, let's allow him to bring in a gun and find someone that looks dangerous. That would be pretty effective I would think. Not!
That would be because it isn't directed at them, it is the wanna be hero's that I am worried about not the on duty trained professionals and I don't care if their name is Dirty Harry.
It doesn't offend me at all. What offends me is the idea that you seem to actually think that they would come in with a sign on them saying "Hey, I'm a bomber, if you have a gun shoot me before I set it off." That's the part that doesn't make sense.
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