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Hmmm, seems noone at all has an opinion about gun control.

Speak up people! Noone is going to be persecuted for sharing an opinion!

Actually Vic, I'm curious to know the stats on Lawyers, seeing as I passed this one on from an email I recieved.

vicmontana says ...

Too many people on the left side of this issue operate stricktly on ignorance of the facts. Every state that has enacted a carry law has seen crime go down notably. Criminals are making a choice to be criminals, by outlawing guns we certainly aren't going to make them choose to not have guns, we will only create more criminals. Didn't the 18th amendment teach this country anything. It gave us the largest crime syndicate ever known to man. Let alone all the other benefits that came along with it. Oh I forgot it also gave us the Kennedy's LOL.

Laws only keep honest people honest, much like locks. I firmly believe that most of the people that push hardest for gun control know that they are such twits, trying to pass stupid laws that negatively impact society, and they fear that someone with some common sense and a gun will put them out of our misery.

leet_firefox says ...

my doctor has a gun.....

Uh oh. . .

nmcclaran says ...

Im a member of a gun club. Will be participating in an IDPA match this Saturday.  It's fun, but I really enjoy the lunches. :)

Awesome!  

pjsconcrete says ...

I'm one of those Lefties that's all for gun ownership. I have several myself, and think as long as it is used for home defense or hunting , it's fine. The one thing that worries me though, is my guns may not be large enough if something bad happens!!!

If my doctor had a gun, she'd shoot me because I don't listen to her very well!!!!

Those are pretty much the only reasons to own them. The home defense issue is why the right to bear arms was written into the constitution in the first place. Our founding fathers (from their own personal experience) felt it necessary to provide the people the right and ability to defend themselves not only from foriegn invaders and criminals, but from their own government if it got corrupted and tyranical.

"People should not be afraid of their government, government should be afraid of the people."

I prefer fists, feet, knives and swords.  More personal, and the consequences are a bit more "in your face" so to speak.  oh, and I think doctors have something to the affect of all of these....interesting....

I'm 100% behind Nuke, demeasurated actions are always the best, but I know that's not politically correct, but scientifically correct.

It sounds like you just need a cowboy hat and you can join the brokeback mountain team, LOL!!

My idea of 'gun control' is A Tight 5 Shot Group!

I am 5'0", 98 pounds, and live where 200 to 500 lb. bears come right up to my back door.  Tell me how I handle that bear if he decides that I look like lunch!  The powers that be would have me throwing rocks.  I have a right to protect myself, and I am keeping my hunting rifle at all costs.

As far as I know ,gun must be controled.It's really a dangerous guy.

It's not a toy.

First, let me thank Mike for inviting me to this forum. I don't own a gun, and I don't begrudge anyone the priviledge of owning a weapon. I call it a priviledge and not a right because while the "Right to bear arms..." is firmly and unquestionably held in the the second amendment, the definition of the word "arms" is open to interpretation by regulatory agencies. No citizen has the "right" to own a tank, for instance. So what we're really talking about here is which arms do we have the priviledge to carry. A priviledge that can be taken away -- should you be convicted of a felony or become mentally unstable, for instance.

My comment on Phreadd's post is that your statistics are misleading in several important ways. First, a physician who is doing his best to save a life, and person who is, say hunting are not held--in my eyes--as morally equivalent in causing accidental death. Secondly, the reason that gun control advocates are for gun control is not principally because of the 1500 accidental deaths that guns cause each year. Finally, by not counting violent deaths, you've skewed your comparison. It's because of the tens of thousands (29,684 in 2005 according to the CDC) of violent deaths caused by people with guns. Anyone is reasonable and safe with a firearm, until they aren't. It's also true that guns kept in homes for "self-defense" are 22 times more likely to be used on a member of the family than an intruder. (1998 study by the Journal of Trauma)

Of course, the same could be said of any potentially lethal weapon (a car, a lead pipe, a knife). However, those items have dual purposes. The only purpose of a gun is to kill things (or practice bettering one's aim to kill something). Why do we need weapons designed to kill people? Hunting rifles are designed to kill game, assault rifles are for military action, and sidearms are almost useless for either. With their smaller caliber ordinance and limited range, their true purpose is for close-range (0-50') soft targets.

In conclusion, I believe that our right to bear arms was intended to protect local militia from being disarmed by an overbearing government. Think the English during the French-Indian war where local militia were pressed in to service on fear of death while their homesteads were ravaged by warring natives. This has evolved over time into a tradition of gun ownership that, while I don't participate, I do not begrudge. However, it is not intellectually honest to conflate the intentions of the Founders with our current culture. Moreover, I do not believe that local militia have any hope of defending themselves from modern military, so assault weapons should be outlawed. Further, I believe that handguns, whose sole purpose as far as I can tell, is to commit murder, have no place in modern society and should be illegal. Hunting rifles, ceremonial pistols, and antiques are the only legitimate reasons to have a weapon. These should be registered and tightly regulated. Gun markets should be further controlled as well so that illegal sales are better intercepted.

Thank you!!!