Banning The Sell Of Guns In Stores

The Florida shooting was truly devastating and I agree our country needs better gun control. The FBI should have followed procedure when Nikolas was reported and maybe it would have saved us all the heartbreak and violence, however, I do not agree that banning forearms from stores is the solution. Essentially, this is your argument summed up: Since people cannot be trusted with guns, homicide rates increase with gun ownership,the status quo fails, and there are other ways to defend yourself, we need to ban guns from stores. I disagree largely with you because the problem is not that we let people buy guns. Though there are several. One of them being the type of guns we allow people to buy. The Florida shooter was a 19-year-old kid using an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle. Why does anyone need a semiautomatic rifle? These are military grade weapons we are letting people purchase. I think that it is perfectly fine to have a handgun (not semiautomatic) but allowing people to buy weapons used in the military is just absurd. Anyone who says they need a military weapon to protect them self from a robber is lying. What we need to do is to ban these types of guns from being purchased by civilians. Another problem is that a lot of states have awful gun regulation. People often say that we can stop gun violence by giving good people guns so they do not have strict or well-regulated gun laws, however this has never been proven to work, at least not on a large scale. "...lax laws too often make it easy not only for good guys to get guns, but also for bad guys to get guns. The evidence is overwhelming that overall more guns and more relaxed gun laws lead to more violent deaths and injuries. One study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that a gun in the house was associated with an increased risk of a gun death, particularly by suicide but also apparently by homicide." If we strengthen gun laws and close loopholes, we can combat this. You also mentioned how we have background checks which do not work. The problem is not that background check are bad, the real problem is that currently, they are not strong enough. "Now, we see, only background checks are runs are through FFL. What about the other people that sell guns in stores not by FFL. These are how mass murders get their hands on guns. Florida, Las Vegas, and Texas, are great example of the system failing." I think it is also important to know that background checks, while have much room for improvement, cannot solve for gun violence on their own. That is why we need to improve all aspects of our gun laws. I really have trouble with your self-defense argument. You say it is easy to learn the following: -Boxing -Karate -Tae Kwon Do -Intimidation -Knife All of those except for the knife and intimidation are unlikely to be learned by everyone. Why? because you have to get training for that sort of thing, which costs a lot of money and time. My sister is doing mixed martial arts right now and we pay 1000 dollars a year for it. Most people cannot afford something so costly. Regarding intimidation, using a knife, and the 9 ways to defend yourself those can be used for defense but there is one big problem which I will explain now. If we ban guns from stores it will push them into the black market. Most people (not all of course) buy their guns legally. If buying guns from stores becomes illegal, they will only be available in the black market. Who uses the black market? Bad people (and maybe some good people but mostly bad). So now, good people do not have guns and bad people do. What is the significance of this? If I am in my home and a robber with an illegal gun invades, I cannot intimidate him, I cannot point a knife at him...he has a gun. I am not saying people need a semiautomatic rifle to shoot the guy,I am not even saying I should use my pistol to shoot the guy necessarily (unless they shoot first), I am saying having a pistol provides security in a home. If we push guns to the black market, largely bad people will have access to them which is danger to us all. Also, take the Prohibition for example. When Alcohol was banned, what happened? It was pushed into the black market and the mafia became rich selling it. Or take how the U.S. refuses to get rid of all of its nuclear weapons. The reason being that if the U.S. has no nukes, countries that hate us like North Korea will have an advantage over us. They can send nuclear weapons our way and we cannot send them back We could still wage war (and use our other aspects of military) but without equal ground, the bad guys have a higher chance of winning. ------------------------------- You are 1000% right that we should never fear for our lives when we are in school. School shootings should NOT be a regular thing. However, banning guns from stores is not the right solution. (Also, it is a little misleading when you keep saying the FBI knew the attack was going to happen. They knew Nikolas was saying disturbing things and yes, they should have looked into it more, but they did not know the attack was going to happen.)