So we should punish EVERYONE because some thugs and other crazy assholes have killed people with most likely unregistered fire arms? A lot of people use weapons for hunting or for self defense against wild animals out in the country. Your logic is flawed.

Still waiting on an answer [quote]OK I'm not even going argue how we feel about guns because it won't go anywhere, but let me ask you this, guns get banned, then what? For starters who is going to take the guns? Are you anti-gun gun folks gonna go door to door attempting to take people's guns, I have advice for you, bring your own body bag. Or are you going to make the Military and police do it for you? How many M&P do you think would be on the government's side? I can guarantee the majority would back the people. Even if the small number of M&P that supported the government actually attempted to take guns away, you know how many people would die? There are nearly 100 million law abiding gun owners here, and most of them will fight for their right. Repealing the 2nd Amendment or banning guns would cause a lot of death, and spark some sort of revolution. You know what, try it, please. This country needs a revolution[/quote]

Law abiding citizen: Well, looks like I have to hand over my gun. Criminal: YES! Now no one can stop me from robbing a bank.

No it doesn't, but if you're on the No-Fly list, you shouldn't be able to buy a gun.

Guns are not the problem, one could kill with anything. People used to go out and lynch people with rope and whip people to death, hell Jason Bourne beats the shit out of people with magazines and cups. Now I know that's a movie but it is possible. In the words of George carline, you could beat a man to death with the New York Times if you tried hard enough

About 10,000 to 15,000 have been killed each year by guns over the past decade. This number has been steadily decreasing over the years. These numbers also include suicides by firearm. About 11,000 die every year from heroine overdoses. Its 100% illegal yet has as many deaths as guns. Even if guns were 100% illegal you cannot guarantee that they are kept out of the country when you have weak and open borders. Most of the heroine comes from Mexico, so to ensure the ban is effective you would have to shut down the border. But wait you cant because thats considered "racist." About 35,000-55,000 die in car accidents every year over the past decade. This number fluctuates but seems to be on a downward trend. That means that gun deaths are 1/3 to 1/5 of the deaths that cars cause. About 60,000-100,000 die from medical complications from doctors and drugs both illegal and legal (this includes heroine.) This is considered the #1 killer in the United States and shows that you are several times more likely to die from a pill or a doctor than from a firearm. Despite the fact that guns kill far less than cars or the medical industry you people still focus on guns like it is this huge "epidemic". Why not ban cars and crack down on pharmaceutical companies and illegal drugs? If those numbers were decreased even 50% you would save 5-7 times more people than if all firearms magically disappeared from the country and were made illegal. But we know even if something is 100% illegal then it still wont go away completely as heroine still kills thousands, that means even more are using it. Now lets look at how small firearm deaths really are compared to other nations. Brazil has roughly 17 million firearms and America has anywhere from 280-310 million (number fluctuates often but still largest amount in the world.) Yet despite having about 5% of our firearms Brazil has roughly 50,000 firearm deaths per year which is 5 times more than the US... Lets take a more extreme country where guns are 100% banned and they have less than 1 million in circulation, Venezuela. They are the #1 country for firearm related deaths at 65,000 a year yet their socialist policies, gun bans, and the small supply of firearms doesn't do anything to decrease their numbers... You can do the math on how small of a percentage the deaths are in America compared to the amount of firearms. Yet ask yourself how many doctors are there compared to how many are killed by mistakes or complications by those doctors each year (about 1/3 of the 60,000-100,000 number) and tell me that doctors are not more deadly than firearms. Firearms are protected to ensure that the people have the ability to protect themselves, their rights, and to prevent government tyranny. If you truly cared about "saving lives" you would focus on the largest causes of death first. But no that is not the goal, the goal is to weaken and disarm the American populace. Also remember that your cars and drugs are not a right and can be taken from you at any point and if you truly cared for life you would welcome the seizing of tools that cause death.

Okay, but then we'll have to ban abortion. It's the right thing to do. [spoiler]It should be regardless.[/spoiler]

Austrailia fought, and lost, a war to emu's. Nuff said

I'm all for it if 2/3 of the country agrees.

[quote]Why should you have the right to kill someone? What gives you right decide when someone lives and when someone dies?[/quote] If I am in danger. We are a short life spanned, stupid species struggling for life on a tiny beautiful blue blob in the universe. We are animals, don't forget that. TBH, anyone dying isn't a huge deal. Even the entire species of humanity dying out isn't a big deal. Imagine if we all went extinct. Would be something [quote]People can protect themselves without guns.[/quote] How so?

OP, if someone wants to kill you, they don't need a gun.

"Let's remove fire arms so we can trade gun deaths with knife deaths! Progress!" Hooray for fascism! [b] [/b] The US had a 12.408m total arrests last year out of a population of 340m, both violent and nonviolent. https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/persons-arrested/persons-arrested That's a general crime rate, both violent and not, of 3,35% 3,346 per 100k (per capita) The UK had a violent crime rate of 10.625, after a 23% rise 10,560 per 100k (per capita) for just violent crime http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/2015-07-16 In short: the US has less crimes in proportion to its population than the UK has for just violent crime

OK I'm not even going argue how we feel about guns because it won't go anywhere, but let me ask you this, guns get banned, then what? For starters who is going to take the guns? Are you anti-gun gun folks gonna go door to door attempting to take people's guns, I have advice for you, bring your own body bag. Or are you going to make the Military and police do it for you? How many M&P do you think would be on the government's side? I can guarantee the majority would back the people. Even if the small number of M&P that supported the government actually attempted to take guns away, you know how many people would die? There are nearly 100 million law abiding gun owners here, and most of them will fight for their right. Repealing the 2nd Amendment or banning guns would cause a lot of death, and spark some sort of revolution. You know what, try it, please. This country needs a revolution.

Really. -blam!-ing really? Banning something does not mean people are not going to try to get it. Heroin is illegal, but people are still using. Repealing the second ammendment will not help anything. It'll just make it so people being attacked will not be able to defend themselves effectively. Do you honestly think that Tazers and pepper spray are going to really stop someone who is determined to cause harm to somebody? You fascist, no-nipple biatch. In all seriousness, -blam!- off. "Wait, who the hell are you? Get away from me, you mother- Aw, shit. Ya know, I really wish that those Democrats didn't take my gun. Now I can't defend myself." OPEN YOUR EYES.