I am very anti gun. I think they should all be collected and melted down to make something useful. When i say this most people look at me like I am crazy. You may too. I just want to know why people feel the need to have them. Please explain this need if you would be so kind.

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It's a Right protected by the Constitution. Besides, I like to hunt and participate in recreational target shooting.

Yes I know it is a right. I just want to know this is one of those rights that people will go to the wall for.

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I am not a fan of guns either ... but the law was made before thugs and criminals took advantage of it with their AK-47's. I agree with what Obama said in his speech about it.

Since it is a Right listed in the founding document of our country.

A majority of Americans would see banning guns as a personal attack on their freedoms and liberity.

Weapons insure that the people will be able to protect themselves, their neighbors, their communities, their States and their Country. A populace denied the right to own weapons are nothing more than subjects to be ordered about at the whim of said Government, with no means to resist or fight back.

And as for the AK-47 comment, what a joke, so few of them are used in crimes as to be meaningless.

And yes I and millions more will go to the wall for our right to own weapons. And the Supreme Court agrees.

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I never said that you had no right to have an opinion. I just said that it was, in fact, worth nothing.

-Maineman ( on 12 June 2007)

I have really no problem with someone hunting. I state the extreme of my position. I think that something does need to be done to curb violence in the streets. But with so many people worried about gun control it is hard to make it happen.

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You take everything so literal! If you did not see what I meant then you are blind as well as being a "COF"

I am sure our founding father's did not think "Six Shooter's" would be used in the West to rob "Stage Coaches", either! You get my point now?

Gun control only disarms law abiding citizens it does nothing to stop criminals from getting weapons. In fact higher crime rates occur in places with the most restrictive gun laws. Why? Cause the criminals know they have little chance of being confronted by an armed victim.

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-Laurence J. Peters

I never said that you had no right to have an opinion. I just said that it was, in fact, worth nothing.

-Maineman ( on 12 June 2007)

In a case like this if no one was allowed gun ownership if they took them all would you be okay with that?

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If there were a way to gather all the guns in the world.....then your solution would apply.....but even after that.....they would be remade.

Guns will NEVER go away.....and because of that.....I will remain armed.

An unarmed society.....consists of subjects.

A armed society......consists of free people.

How this doesn't make sense to some people Devy's logic.

Why is it so hard to understand that the second amendment helps to protect the "Right" to free speech that you excercise on this very board.....let alone all the other freedoms we have.


Its easy.....

Don't try to kill me or I'll shoot you.

Don't try to unlawfully take my home , kids etc....or I'll shoot you.

Don't rape my wife.....or I'll shoot you....better yet.....she'll shoot you.

Don't invade our country.....or we'll all shoot you.

Don't tread on me!!!! Don't try to make me a subject.



If all men are created equal.......my gun is an equalizer.

I never want to use my self defense gun for its intended purpose....never.

But I likewise can not fathom what tool is better if the purpose is necessitated.

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In the UK they have taken away guns from basically everyone.

In the last few years, knife attacks and stabbings have become epidemic.

No, for several reasons. One you can not disarm everyone and you sure can not stop guns from being smuggled in. Also disarming the public ensures that eventually the Government will take advantage of their inability to protect themselves.

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

-Bertrand Russell

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

-Laurence J. Peters

I never said that you had no right to have an opinion. I just said that it was, in fact, worth nothing.

-Maineman ( on 12 June 2007)

Exactly! Then when they take away the knives, we go back to making weapons out of stone, and other materials. The incarcerated criminals are already doing it in prison. They stay one step ahead of law enforcement and the law, so they are prepared to be released.



Getting rid of guns will not solve anything. IMHO.

Gun crimes have also gone WAY up over there.

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-Bertrand Russell

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

-Laurence J. Peters

I never said that you had no right to have an opinion. I just said that it was, in fact, worth nothing.

-Maineman ( on 12 June 2007)