New Gun Laws. For or Against?

[MichelleHW101]

Totally against.  Firstly, if you stop and think about it all new gun laws do is make it harder for ordinary law-abiding citizens to get guns.  People who have a mind to kill someone aren’t going to care about gun laws.  Heck murder itself is illegal so why should they care about gun laws if they don’t care about murder laws?  They are gonna kill someone, they will find a way to get a gun regardless of how tough gun laws are.  Secondly more people are killed by cars than by guns and I’m not even talking about drunk drivers.  I’m talking about ordinary pedestrians risking their lives just to cross a street (and that’s even ignoring the jay-walkers.) Parked at a metro station, I witnessed an elderly woman nearly get killed if her husband didn’t grab her back onto the sidewalk because a bus refused to stop.  Heck, I nearly got killed twice just trying to cross a parkin’ lot to get to the side walk in front of a store.  You wanna talk about murder I don’t see why people even bother shooting each other.  You can just drive over them and get away scott free.  Hit and runs.  Unless you drive away you can’t be touched.  Even then it’s not murder “its fleeing the scene of a crime”.  Hit them, drive over them, whatever, then call 911, make a statement and your good.  Most they could get you on is some kind of traffic violation (which is a fine) but then the cops would have to prove pedestrian you hit was in the crosswalk.  (If they weren’t or there isn’t a crosswalk they don’t even bother with you.) So unless somebody starts cracking down on either making it harder to get a car, or taking it away after a driver has hit (let alone killed) a pedestrian, why make it harder to get a gun?  Same principle.  Different outcome.

[drandall]

Totally against.  Firstly, if you stop and think about it all new gun laws do is make it harder for ordinary law-abiding citizens to get guns.  People who have a mind to kill someone aren’t going to care about gun laws.  Heck murder itself is illegal so why should they care about gun laws if they don’t care about murder laws?  They are gonna kill someone, they will find a way to get a gun regardless of how tough gun laws are.  Secondly more people are killed by cars than by guns and I’m not even talking about drunk drivers.  I’m talking about ordinary pedestrians risking their lives just to cross a street (and that’s even ignoring the jay-walkers.) Parked at a metro station, I witnessed an elderly woman nearly get killed if her husband didn’t grab her back onto the sidewalk because a bus refused to stop.  Heck, I nearly got killed twice just trying to cross a parkin’ lot to get to the side walk in front of a store.  You wanna talk about murder I don’t see why people even bother shooting each other.  You can just drive over them and get away scott free.  Hit and runs.  Unless you drive away you can’t be touched.  Even then it’s not murder “its fleeing the scene of a crime”.  Hit them, drive over them, whatever, then call 911, make a statement and your good.  Most they could get you on is some kind of traffic violation (which is a fine) but then the cops would have to prove pedestrian you hit was in the crosswalk.  (If they weren’t or there isn’t a crosswalk they don’t even bother with you.) So unless somebody starts cracking down on either making it harder to get a car, or taking it away after a driver has hit (let alone killed) a pedestrian, why make it harder to get a gun?  Same principle.  Different outcome.

This is so true. I have an LTC as does my husband. We both like to go out with our daughter and friends to go shooting. We also enter the local block shoots here. Criminals will never care about background checks or doing anything a law abiding citizen (armed) would do. For the most part criminals either steal their guns or buy them under the radar. I can't speak for all firearms dealers, but I know the ones in my area are afraid of doing any thing that might jeopardize their business'. 

[kilophkadamas]

I'm sorry but why would you want it easier for every single person to get a weapon that could end your life in seconds. Can you imagine walking around the city and literally everyone is packing heat? One wrong look at a person and bam, you're dead, best to keep guns away from the general population.

[vp44]

Totally against.  Firstly, if you stop and think about it all new gun laws do is make it harder for ordinary law-abiding citizens to get guns.  People who have a mind to kill someone aren’t going to care about gun laws.  Heck murder itself is illegal so why should they care about gun laws if they don’t care about murder laws?  They are gonna kill someone, they will find a way to get a gun regardless of how tough gun laws are.  Secondly more people are killed by cars than by guns and I’m not even talking about drunk drivers.  I’m talking about ordinary pedestrians risking their lives just to cross a street (and that’s even ignoring the jay-walkers.) Parked at a metro station, I witnessed an elderly woman nearly get killed if her husband didn’t grab her back onto the sidewalk because a bus refused to stop.  Heck, I nearly got killed twice just trying to cross a parkin’ lot to get to the side walk in front of a store.  You wanna talk about murder I don’t see why people even bother shooting each other.  You can just drive over them and get away scott free.  Hit and runs.  Unless you drive away you can’t be touched.  Even then it’s not murder “its fleeing the scene of a crime”.  Hit them, drive over them, whatever, then call 911, make a statement and your good.  Most they could get you on is some kind of traffic violation (which is a fine) but then the cops would have to prove pedestrian you hit was in the crosswalk.  (If they weren’t or there isn’t a crosswalk they don’t even bother with you.) So unless somebody starts cracking down on either making it harder to get a car, or taking it away after a driver has hit (let alone killed) a pedestrian, why make it harder to get a gun?  Same principle.  Different outcome.

Life is not perfect and when you overlook things like guns and who should have them then you have a society that is armed and dangerous. Cars kill just like other things but that doesn't mean that we should just give these type of things to people who have no self control. This is why there is certain laws and should be enforced.
Just like Illegals Immigrant laws, all laws should be enforced or otherwise we have people all over breaking laws and nobody does nothing about them.