You do not believe in gun control as you have previously said, you would rather fix the societal problems, and that would in turn remove the desire for guns.
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The same thing happened with gun control in Australia: regulations were put into place despite strong opposition, and gradual acceptance of those regulations created a climate where it would now be politically lethal to run against it.
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Gun control is not necessarily disarming all people while maintaining arms in the military/police force, which I have mentioned before.
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This kind of sounds like something a politician would say when shouting about how we need more gun control.
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So there is gun control in place of that.
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I am in favor of gun control.
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CA signed a significant law that allows cops to confiscate guns found during a welfare check, and WA passed a pretty reasonable gun control measure by ballot initiative.
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Then i agree with you, we should not enforce gun control, instead we need look to the societal problems and fix them.
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Gun registry or gun control, similar to what you have mentioned for cars, would be a decent approach to help solve the issue.
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It could also help to address illegal gun trade, which is obviously for the most part controlled by organized crime who would be opposed to this type of gun control.
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The same thing happened with gun control in Australia: regulations were put into place despite strong opposition, and gradual acceptance of those regulations created a climate where it would now be politically lethal to run against it.
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Homicide or suicide is the cause of most of those deaths, and are not solely gun problems, and gun control can't solve them.
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I am not for or against gun control in US, but it is the responsibility of the parents to not expose their children to harm.
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They call it "gun control."
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Josh's comment on gun rights and his opinion on gun control is incorrect.
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It's still really shitty in gun control havens
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It's rare, but the marines that I have heard speak out in favor of gun control are typically the most arrogant people you'll meet.
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This lazy use of "liberals" for "gun-control advocates" continues to be ridiculous.
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Does anyone know what the official gun control laws are in Israel?
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They are going to risk our lives with gun control laws.
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You do realize that crime rates had already been on the downward trend and your gun-control advocates responsible for the laws even said they didn't work, right?
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In the us, hyperbolic rhetoric from the two diametrically opposed sides in the gun control fight is spewed, more or less continuously, from every media source.
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Yeah, that's a sticky point to for a lot of the gun control (for or against) and it's fun to listen to them go back and forth.
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This turned into a gun control debate.
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As for Switzerland maybe you should do research before you bring them up, they do have guns yes but they also have some pretty crazy gun control.
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These are things the typical gun control advocate doesn't think or care about.
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and now that I think about it, I don't think I have ever seen or heard of one Marine speak out in favor of gun control.
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Gun control doesn't work.
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I think that the fact that gun control advocates don't care about this, while they're beating the drum about that woman who got shot with her CCW the other day, illustrates their mentally.
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God help us if a strongly pro-gun control Democrat takes the primary.
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It's by no means only "Tea Party" types who oppose gun control.
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So based on your experience, would you say the professors are rabidly anti-gun, simply misinformed, or support gun control only because they support the rest of the "liberal" ideology.
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Gun control is a very politicized issue that doesn't address the real problem with guns in America.
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As soon as I point out that gun control advocates aren't willing to give up their own rights, only take those from others, they always start talking about complete and total nonsense that had nothing to do with the actual conversation our argument.... it's almost as if I've made a point that they are unwilling or unable to debate.
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This is why some people want gun control.
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There are whole countries with very strict gun control laws (the most predominant among them speak English, so feel free to go read their newspapers) and they have WAY less gun violence than we do.
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That's like saying liberals are against gun rights without recognizing that some liberals are very passionate about the 2nd Amendment or that likewise, some conservatives support gun control because they have a huge need for feeling safe and sound.
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The extensive gun control in both countries do not prevent guns from being associated with violent deaths, but increased gun control in the Israeli army may have reduced gun suicide.
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I didn't come here to have the same gun control debate everyone else has over and over again.
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Gun control isn't about gun confiscation.
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Democrats by definition of their party platform are for gun control.
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