Statement: Gun Control.
Issue: Gun Control
Strongly Supports: 2738
Supports: 3433
Neutral: 1443
Opposes: 1678
Strongly Opposes: 1961
Average position: 'Neutral' (based on '11253' opinions)
This question has to do with an effort to regulate or control sales of guns.
*It saves lives. Guns make killing physically easier and make it convenient.
*Even the First Amendment has restrictions. Freedom of Speech doesn't mean you can say anything anywhere. Freedom of Religion doesn't mean you can sacrifice a virgin whenever you want. Using common sense can work with the Second Amendment too.
*Freedom has a price. For free speech the price is political dissent like flag burning, for freedom of religion you have to tolerate beliefs that differ from the masses. the right to assemble means that the nazis and clan can assemble too. The founding fathers felt that to protect these freedoms the population had to be armed. the price to protect freedom is sometimes tragic, like when a crime is committed with a gun. Reasonable laws can help limit these occurrences. Hundreds of thousands of innocent people have died because of cars, and there's no movement to ban them. Is the right to drive cars that much more important than protecting our freedom.
*All guns should contain safety features that prevent them from being fired accidentally or by minors.
*The Government has the right to regulate gun purchases to keep them out of the wrong hands.
*Gun users should have to register their weapons with the Government, making them more accountable for their actions.
*No self-respecting sportsman shoots deer with an Uzi. We should ban semiautomatic weapons.
*The Bill of Rights, the second amendment to the Constitution reads: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
*The Founding Fathers wanted the population to be well armed so that the governed would be able to defend itself from an assault on its liberty, whether its from an invading government or our own.
*According to statistics there is 1 police officer for every 23,000 people in this country. Now how can that 1 policeman be there to protect me. The constitution does not guarantee us protection from murder or crime. It does provide us with a means to protect ourselves with the right to bear arms. We must stop trying to take hand guns away from law abiding citizens and concentrate on taking them away from the criminals.
*We already have over 20,000 gun laws on the books that are being ignored by criminals. In the Columbine High School tragedy, at least eighteen (18) existing anti-gun laws were broken. Does anyone really think the shooters cared they were breaking those anti-gun laws? By definition, does any criminal care that (s)he is breaking the law? Any law? What possible good can more anti-gun laws do other than to further penalize and harass honest American citizens who wish simply to enjoy their Constitutional rights?
*Its obvious that someone who's willing to do a major crime like murder, isn't likely to worry about a gun control law. The object of gun control is to make it hard for someone that's likely to commit a crime from getting a gun and even harder to get a gun capable of killing dozens of people.
*If people obeyed the current laws, there would be no need for further restrictions on gun purchases.
*Guns don't kill people, people do. We need to worry about values, not guns.
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