i think the only people who should have guns are the police , sports people and farmers and they should by licensed , anyone else caught with one should face jail
Yes, then you can be just like Canada, where while there are far fewer shootings by members of the public the Police make sure to give theirs plenty of exercise by shooting "suspicious" 14 year olds in the head and tasering immigrants to death because they can't understand what they are saying. Yep, gun control sure solved problems here.
That was sarcastic. It hasn't solved flip all. Why?
Look at drugs. Many of them are illegal to posess, cocaine, Heroin, etc. For marijuana you can get medicinal exemptions (or something). However, do you think that the people creating grow ops in many basements are secretive because they have a license? I doubt it. There are very few growers who actually get a license and are doing it legally.
By the same token, while you can create any number of laws declaring gun ownership illegal and make people have licenses and fill out forms and all that crap, It's not going to stop people from skipping that entirely, it just creates more of a pain in the *censored* for the law-abiding citizens who do go through the process.
Take the attempt they made at prohibition. How well did that work? Not at all.
Basically, the only way to truly have "Gun control laws" is if you have can actually enforce those laws, but you can't just go busting into random peoples houses and performing searches.
My point is, it's not the guns that need to be controlled it's the people using them. If somebody has violent tendencies, they'll find something to express their violence with, wether it's a gun or a knife is redundant. Go to the beach. Find a large stone. Congratulations, you can murder somebody with that.
People have been killing each other with all sorts of different things for thousands upon thousands of years, to think you can write a few words on paper and suddenly the entire place becomes a magical happy utopia with rainbows and unicorns and rose-smelled farts from pleasantly voiced goats is a whimsical fiction drawn up by those liveless activists who have stopped caring about the consequences and are more entranced by getting there, much like those video game violence activists. It seems that every time there is an incident like this, some idiot decides that "something needs to be done". Yes, something does needs to be done. The person responsible needs to be given more then a slap on the wrist and sent to bed without supper. But some activists, bleary eyed and eager for senseless arguments, decide that the problem lies elsewhere, without realizing that even if their crusade was 100% successful, it wouldn't really change much. People would still get guns, it would just be a bigger pain in the *censored* for people to do it by the book. Somehow I doubt gangs and murderers and people planning to kill somebody go through all the paperwork, particularly because the paperwork will make the job of covering their tracks a *censored* of a lot more difficult.
I'm surprised that somehow they haven't worked in new driver's license restrictions, I mean, after all, most armed robberies not only use guns but also a getaway vehicle, so clearly if they just add a "I will not drive those who have committed a crime away from the scene of said crime at high speed" and they've prevented every single bank robbery from ever occuring in the future. It doesn't work like that. Laws are not something that are never broken by anybody, except under the threat of being broken in return, but that sounds a *censored* of a lot more like north Korea then anywhere else, and additionally extending some half-logic that "well, it worked in the UK" is utter nonsense because while it may have worked in the UK (from experience is hardly something that can be called quality evidence) it sure as *censored* has NOT HELPED in Canada. There are still has many shootings but the vast majority of them are by police, one of the members whom you seem to think should have this inalienable ability to have a gun, for what reason I cannot conceive- and extending that logic further to the US is utter nonsense, particular since those pushing for it are often on the entire other side of an ocean and have absolutely no idea. I mean no offense to Americans by I doubt I'd want to walk through the streets of a large American city without some sort of weapon (*censored*, sometimes I feel that way in Victoria, of course since even posessing a weapon of pretty much any sort is illegal.
The thing is, those who want a gun for protection aren't saying they would shoot somebody; if you are mugged in the street with a gun, and it turns out you have one as well, the mugger will generally run off. Nobody is hurt, except for the mugger's ego, I suppose, but I see no reason we should try to protect that. Basically, it's much akin to the whole "Iron curtain" thing- Mutually Assured Injury, though, rather then destruction.
