Gun Rights

OK, that's cool. Sorry for the incorrect accusation, I had to make sure. How many people buy a gun to shoot food because they are starving in the US? Yep, basically nobody. I believe that police should be armed, don't get me wrong. I am against regular civilians carrying heavy duty assault weapons. All right, let me tell ya something. Criminals often don't think things all the way through. I highly doubt that Lanza would have done what he did if his mom did not have firearms in the house. Gun control is basically making it HARDER for these people to get their hands on these guns in the first place. The ignorance of the parents may be to blame, but that does not change the fact that an innocent kid died because of this gun. See, you cannot assume that everybody with a gun will be responsible. It is a risk. There are plenty more stories about kids and gun violence then there are about kids and knife violence. Oh, I realize that you weren't talking about only machete's, they don't really serve a culinary purpose, do they? Personally, I am a very empathetic person who has had my share of difficulties in life. I can greatly relate to the pain of losing a loved one. These victims were killed unnecessarily. Place yourself in the shoes of a parent of a kid who died. Wouldn't you want less guns out there or at the very least increased restrictions on these weapons of death? About Chicago, it will not work for only one city to have these laws. It is not really difficult to drive to a nearby city and buy a gun there. Please don't copy and paste arguments from news sites. This isn't copy and paste world, its make your own opinion and express it world. Guns make suicide much easier for people. Many other forms of suicide such as drug overdose can be fixed if the individual has a change of heart and goes to the hospital or something but once you pull the trigger of a gun against your head, you won't have a chance to regret what you did. A study was conducted using survivors of suicide attempts using firearms. More than half of the people had done it impulsively, and had not been contemplating suicide for more than 24 hours. None of them had thought about it enough to write a suicide note. This shows that a gun is an easy way to commit, and one of the ways that is very often fatal. Well, if its more of a 'gang problem' the guns aren't really the problem, the gangs are. Also, traffic accidents cause a lot of deaths, right? Well, gun violence causes basically the same amount of deaths now. Another thing to note is that gun rights advocates don't mind taking their shoes off at airports for security, submit themselves to those airport scanners, have their phone provider turn over all records to the police should there be cause for suspicion in the name of fighting terrorism. Those are rights that people don't really FIGHT that much. The ironic thing is that they are against gun control even though it kills people, because its "taking away their rights". I would like to quote a few recent people on gun control. "If we don't get gun control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic" ~Harvey Weinstein "Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary and delay means more death and horror. " ~Eliot Spitzer "You don"t need no gun control, you know what you need? We need some bullet control. Men, we need to control the bullets, that"s right. I think all bullets should cost five thousand dollars" five thousand dollars per bullet" You know why? Cause if a bullet cost five thousand dollars...." ~Chris Rock In conclusion, more gun control would save more lives of the population by reducing the deaths of innocent people by disarming their attackers or themselves. Thank you for having this debate with me and let the best person win. :) Sources http://mjcdn.motherjones.com... http://www.nytimes.com...;