What do you think about guns?

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What do you think about guns?

I'd never want one personally, I am for mild gun control, background checks, etc. I don't think everyone needs one but I respect the right for people to own one. I think requiring more training, background checks and so on is a good idea. Maybe have different permits for different guns with much more restrictions on more "deadly" weapons like assault weapons.

They're interesting and I'd like to have one. I think they should have certain regulations though, and that it's not "oppressing" anyone to prevent people with a history of hospitalizations from suicide attempts or a history of violent crimes to have one, at least for a period of time in the former situation.

It's good for police officers and such to have them, and hunting one's own food is ecological and often more ethical than mass produced food, so it's good for hunters to have them. People with cattle can need them too to fend off wild animals, but other than that, I don't really see a reason why people should own guns. I'm not strictly against it or anything, but I think good background checks should be done to everyone and they should pass a set criteria before they could get a gun. The more dangerous the gun, the stricter criteria. I think it should also be checked frequently that the gun owners still meet the criteria they filled when getting the guns. And of course, purposefully borrowing a gun to someone who doesn't have a permit to carry one should be heavily punishable (is it already?)

I have friends who've over time talked me into buying a few (just to get me out shooting). It's a relatively expensive habit, particularly if you're shooting anything larger than 22 LR. IMHO knowing how to care for and maintain a fire arm is a useful thing to know, much like knowing how to change a tire, but past that I really don't get that excited about shooting. On one level, maybe absurdly, the environmentalist in me gets kicks in about hobbies that just burn resources sending lead into a wall, and for me at least going to a range is really boring unless its with friends.

They are loud and noisy. I am one who would likely walk up to someone pointing a gun at me and ask them what is wrong. I don't know why. To me, I want to try to make sense of things. The gun would be something that I would not think about as a danger?
Mind you, on the other hand, if I have time to think, I will then be very methodical in my approach knowing when to hide and when to run etc.

To me it's almost like staring at knives -- it's only cruel and fatal when it's aimed at certain directions.

Except guns are just much more troublesome in more ways than one.


I would've want to own one for self defences and academic reasons.

From my point of view regulations are moot point when what's enforcing it are too corrupted or unreliable.
There's just different creative ways to get hold of firearms.

And there are simply other ways to physically threaten, hurt anyone, cause chaos or defend one's self without a gun.

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I think guns 1ce served a needed purpose but I think the US would be a hell of a lot safer these days if we didn't have guns here. Every day I'm hearing about another mass shooting & an unarmed minority getting shot. Then there were the unarmed peaceful protestors getting shot by rubber bullets & the armed Americans who stormed the capital in a desperate attempt to keep a losing president in power. It's a very good thing that I don't have a gun cuz I woulda blew my brains out a long time ago to get the hell out of this completely f#cked up world. I can only hope that the gun activists end up killing off the human race before our 1ce thriving planet & all plant & animal life on it dies.

I don't think anybody should own guns and the only people that should be allowed access to guns are police officers.

But I'm from the UK, where owning a gun is uncommon and it's illegal to carry any weapons around with you when you go out, unless you're a police officer.

Gun crimes are much lower here than it is in America.

It would not be surprising if a new era of Prohibition happens in the US at some point
in the future but with guns and not alcohol.

I think that researching the matter would find that guns are more popular than My Space is these days.

I don't like guns at all. There was a referendum in the 2000s about totally outlawing the sale (and I suppose later on also the ownership) of guns of any kind to anyone who doesn't have a specific need to have one and isn't specifically trained and licensed for it. I think that's exactly how it should be, and I voted for it. The proposal didn't go through, unfortunately.

As far as I know it actually is against the law to carry any guns in public though. I've never seen anyone other than police officers and security guards carrying a gun, and if I ever did, I would immediately assume the person is a dangerous criminal and get as far from them as possible as quickly as possible without drawing attention to myself.

Not a fan. I fired one legally in the UK and I hated it. I also remember when we had the Dunblane massacre, we had a gun amnesty so my grandfather turned over the guns he had from WW2.