MrBrown said:Let's say so: I feel quite good without owning a gun.
If it would be harder to gat a gun in America (especially getting a gun illegal), it would be not so neccessar to own a gun.
It is a bad thing that people get killed in not well stored private weapons. Its ashame that people get killed in rage-runs... (not only in USA, but in Germany, Finnland and so on...) Let me give you this to think about:
If you would know you live in a save country, why you should need a gun? Or is it just the "I just want a gun, because its my right to have a gun!" ?
Okay, In Germany ts very, extremely unusual to own a gun legal, because its not easy to get one. Well as I said before, I feel save enough without a gun.
MrBrown, you have some quite good points, I get where you are coming from, but again, it is difficult for you to understand major political issues in America like gun control, because you do not live here. It is just a very different political setting and background that that of Germany or Europe. To most people owning a gun is not so much for protection, but it is more of a hobby, target practice, collecting, and hunting.
We also have a good deal of people who live out in some pretty remote places, or out in the country. In these places you will find that just about everyone owns a gun, knows well how to use them, and couldn't imagine life without them, yet gun crime in these areas are extremely rare. Next, turn to inner city areas and slums, where just about everyone will talk about how evil guns are. It is in these areas that very few people own guns and yet this is where drive by shootings and lots of gun crime takes place.
It is not that I sleep with my gun under my pillow to feel safe. My guns are kept securely locked away in a safe. The likelihood of someone breaking into my home while me and my family are at home is highly unlikely. If such a senario were to take place, I would probably grab my gun, but I'd really hope I would not have to use it.
America was designed to be tyrant proof. As a nation of men and women who escaped persecution from government, many checks and balances were well thought out to protect us from becoming a tyranical government ourselves. One of these checks is the second amendment rights for citizens to have arms. The idea is that if the government "goes bad" the citizens can organize militias to defend themselves. Times have of course changed, now that we have moved beyond a gun and mortor era, it is unlikely citizens could stand up so well against the military. The fact of the matter is, gun crime is not often commited by legally obtained arms. Background checks and such would make it very difficult for many of these types to aquire weapons legally. The vast majority of people who own guns are very responsible with them, and use them for harmless means.