The US should adopt stricter gun control laws

Here are a list of things we could ban that would save lives. That doesn't make it logical, rational, or reasonable. Let's take a peek. * -Cars -Planes -Fried foods -Unprotected sex -Walking out of your house -Swimming -Horseback riding -High cholesterol foods -All large dogs -Drinking pop -Eating anything loaded with salt or sugar -Crossing the street * The Secret Service, who protect government leaders are well armed and well trained. Why? To protect the government leaders from threats, of course. * http://youtu.be... * The 10th Amendment - "Do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC; that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that you take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which you are about to enter: So help you God?" --- In theory, moles could infiltrate the country, give anti American citizen commands and use military force on us. Some people think moles have already infiltrated the U.S. government in an attempt to destroy the country. Do we have the right to weapons to combat them? Of course we do. We the people are more trustworthy than a group of crooks that have become so corrupt that they bailed out the banks and caused a Donald Trump revolution...If we can't have something, the government doesn't need to have access to it either. --- The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that the right belongs to individuals, while also ruling that the right is not unlimited and does not prohibit all regulation of either firearms or similar devices. State and local governments are limited to the same extent as the federal government from infringing this right per the incorporation of the Bill of Rights. The Second Amendment was based partially on the right to keep and bear arms in English common law and was influenced by the English Bill of Rights of 1689. Sir William Blackstone described this right as an auxiliary right, supporting the natural rights of self-defense, resistance to oppression, and the civic duty to act in concert in defense of the state. https://en.m.wikipedia.org... --- Here is the amendment from being ratified by the states and authenticated by President Thomas Jefferson, then-Secretary of State: "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." --- In real life, violent crime goes down when more people legally carry guns: "Right-to-carry laws" have been on the rise in the United States since the early 1990's. At the same time, violent crime rates have decreased. The number of privately owned guns has risen by aproximately 100 million. When criminals subconsciously wonder if each house is armed, each purse carrying woman is armed, or see a man with a gun on his hip, they logically think twice, or they are insane. If they are insane, I'd much prefer the option to be able to protect myself, friends, and loved ones against them. According to the NRA, “Through 2010, the nation’s murder rate has decreased 52 percent to a 47-year low, and the total violent crime rate has decreased 48 percent to a 37-year low.” --- Gun control laws don't make the U.S. a safer place. In Paris, France, which has some of the strictest anti-gun laws in the Western world, ISIS militants, who didn't care about the gun laws mowed down 130 unarmed civilians at a concert in the Bataclan Theatre. I think about my sister who does carry a gun in her purse, was in the military, and is highly trained in using it. What if someone like her, male or female, had been present? What if a handful of similar people had been present? 130 might have been 40, or 20, or 5. That's why it matters. Killers will ignore the laws no matter what the laws say. Thus, you do not disarm the innocent. --- With stricter and stricter gun laws, we get this equation: Innocent, law abiding civilians : no guns OR less powerful weaponry. Violent, non law abiding, criminal muderers: still the same amount and types of guns in their posession. Nothing changes for them, but we become disarmed. Scenario- So the violent criminal walks into my house with a semi automatic. I obeyed the law and am unarmed. He did not. Guess who dies today? Me. That doesn't logically work for me. Real Life 101- But in real life, if I notice an armed intruder, I get my weapon, I lie in wait, and he's the one that dies today. My choice is him or me and my friends/loved ones. I choose him. Call me crazy... --- Scenario- What if ISIS is here in the U.S. right now, right this second? They coordinate an attack on the American people. I'd like to be armed as opposed to beheaded, burned alive, or the females around me kidnapped and raped, as is their custom.---According to the New York Times most gun deaths are suicides, not actual attacks from one person exacted onto another.