Do you think guns should be banned?
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weapons whose sole primary purpose is in causing active harm should never have been made period
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you don't tell me what not to do
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you don't tell me what not to do
visibleghost
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the us definitely needs gun restriction laws lmao
SugardewVillage
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Yes, if I had my own country you'd be arrested for having one. And if you killed any innocent person or endangered animal with it, you would starve in prison.
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Paxx
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It's hard to imagine a world without guns. They do have a purpose for law enforcement and especially come in handy when confronting robbers and what not (people will usually back down and stop what they are doing if faced with a gun). Even if guns weren't invented though, there are still knives, bats, tasers, etc.
But I agree with you, they shouldn't have been made. ;v;
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At least I live in Canada and there's strict gun laws unlike the U.S.
In an ideal world, guns wouldn't even exist. But of course there's no point in doing anything about that because in order to enforce such a thing you'd require guns, ironically.
Just bring in stricter rules. You can't have a gun if you have any sort of criminal record, if you have a history of violent behaviour, if it's been fewer than five years since you immigrated here, if you're under 25, etc.
Just bring in stricter rules. You can't have a gun if you have any sort of criminal record, if you have a history of violent behaviour, if it's been fewer than five years since you immigrated here, if you're under 25, etc.
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Recently in the UK, A man entered someone's home and shot a one year old child with an airgun. Before this incident (and still currently), the UK laws on airguns and similar weapons was rather relaxed (anyone over 18 could purchase an air rifle as long as it delivered less than 16.2 joules of energy). Due to this event and a few other events, new legislations are coming into place, tightening the laws on such weapons (this law was first mentioned back in July 2015). Also in the UK, 1996, the Dunblane school shooting took place, this incident led to the UK having one of the strictest anti-gun legislation in the world, as before that the gun laws were more relaxed. Since this law was implemented, there has been 0 school shooting related deaths in the UK, unlike American where there has been 112 school shooting related deaths, (64 school shootings in 2015 alone) since 2010 (according to Wikipedia).
The point I'm making is, when something terrible happens, you make clear that you don't want it to happen again. If your child hurts another child badly using something, say a BB gun, you discipline them strongly and take away their BB gun to show that you don't agree with that type of behavior, it doesn't mean they won't do it again, but it means you aren't condoning it, you have clearly shown, by your actions, that you don't want it to happen again. By not banning guns (or at least making some sort of attempt to) America are being complacent to all the gun related deaths, they are not showing that they don't want it to happen again. (of course people who shoot other people are punished, but they are allowing it to happen again by still allowing guns). To me Sandy Hook was the turning point, the minute you see 20 very young children being shot and don't think that calls for a serious change, that's when you're well and truly ****ed. That's when you are showing that you allow this, and that is disgusting.
As Bowie said, in an ideal world guns wouldn't exist. My own feelings and anger lead me to wish that guns were never created in the first place, I wish it were simple to remove them all from the Earth completely, but obviously that is not at all possible. Guns will always exist and will always be used to kill people, no matter what laws are brought in. However, gun laws can definitely make a difference, I'm not saying take everyone's guns away and ban them completely (although I strongly wish that could happen) I'm just saying at least make an attempt, stop allowing this. It's about time something was done. Guns obviously aren't the problem, people are, but gun laws can make a difference.
None of that really makes sense but my in my opinion yes. At the very least stricter laws need to be brought in.
The point I'm making is, when something terrible happens, you make clear that you don't want it to happen again. If your child hurts another child badly using something, say a BB gun, you discipline them strongly and take away their BB gun to show that you don't agree with that type of behavior, it doesn't mean they won't do it again, but it means you aren't condoning it, you have clearly shown, by your actions, that you don't want it to happen again. By not banning guns (or at least making some sort of attempt to) America are being complacent to all the gun related deaths, they are not showing that they don't want it to happen again. (of course people who shoot other people are punished, but they are allowing it to happen again by still allowing guns). To me Sandy Hook was the turning point, the minute you see 20 very young children being shot and don't think that calls for a serious change, that's when you're well and truly ****ed. That's when you are showing that you allow this, and that is disgusting.
As Bowie said, in an ideal world guns wouldn't exist. My own feelings and anger lead me to wish that guns were never created in the first place, I wish it were simple to remove them all from the Earth completely, but obviously that is not at all possible. Guns will always exist and will always be used to kill people, no matter what laws are brought in. However, gun laws can definitely make a difference, I'm not saying take everyone's guns away and ban them completely (although I strongly wish that could happen) I'm just saying at least make an attempt, stop allowing this. It's about time something was done. Guns obviously aren't the problem, people are, but gun laws can make a difference.
None of that really makes sense but my in my opinion yes. At the very least stricter laws need to be brought in.
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I'm actually against gun control. It's not the gun that kills the person. It's the person holding the gun that kills. If guns are banned, that wouldn't stop criminals from owning guns. They don't believe in the law, so they would still own guns.
If anything, lack of morals is the leading cause of crime in America.
If anything, lack of morals is the leading cause of crime in America.
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"Guns don't kill, people do." True, but guns give people the means to do it on a much larger scale and that is a fact. And yes, a ban wouldn't stop criminals from getting their hands on guns since there's over 300 million of them in the US.
You gotta start somewhere.
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