There’s actually some evidence that restricting prescription pain drugs, like oxycodone, has driven increases in the use of illegal drugs like heroin. In Washington State, heroin use increased in the wake of stricter controls prescription pain meds.
Gun control helps. It doesn’t eliminate shootings, it reduces them. Making the sale of liquor legal did not eliminate the need to regulate alcohol sale and use. Alcohol is still a BIG problem, though the laws help. The laws like not selling to minors or those who are intoxicated, or the hours of sale or those who are driving. See, it’s still regulated by laws and it makes sense.
So what has that got to do with anything? Heroin is still bad news and people still overuse drugs legal or not.
What’s weakening your position is that you don’t acknowledge any reason why we should limit sale of guns, the main one being, guns are inherently dangerous weapons that even a kid could use to kill another person…and HAS!!
The way you glorify the gun should send red flags up… It’s excellent for home defense and easy to shoot… yes even a child could shoot it…and a madman who will take out plenty of victims…4 dead in the Colorado Springs shooting spree… A loved one of any of those victims who died would be shocked to hear you talk of it so casually.
What hoops? They ask you for your drivers license and will not dispense more than a week or two without a prescription. If you need it on an ongoing basis, get a prescription… That way it will not get into the wrong hands… Simple…
No because circumstances change all the time… A person gets a FOID card and they move or get married to someone with a problem or has a psychological meltdown or becomes an alcoholic…But now he’s got 20 rifles in his possession!!!.. who keeps track of all that…? Who’s law abiding and who’s not? I just said persons can get several weapons from several shops and then sell them illegally on the street. If there were more regulations and limits on sale, they wouldn’t get so many. Yes we should make it harder for law abiding citizens to get a gun, as it is, it’s too easy. I say monitor them similar to how they monitor prescription drugs… What they are doing is not enough…
Ordinary police officers merely have to hit a target with a fair degree of accuracy once per year. They are NOT continually trained on weaponry. There are many, many civilians who are more proficient with firearms than an ordinary law enforcement officer is required to be.
The AR-15 is the most popular rifle sold in the United States today.
I’d rather be protected by a policeman who has the authority to defend me than some doopa on the street who thinks he knows all there is about guns, and how and when to use them.
That isn’t an argument against gun control that’s an argument FOR gun control.
Oh my, the all-caps again. I can see how you could see it that way, especially since you apparently don’t bother to read what I write. The only thing that I can think of that I don’t acknowledge, are your activist claims. Guns are indeed dangerous, as are many other tools in our civilization. What I don’t believe in is subsidizing my moral responsibility via poorly thought out laws, which result in more knee jerk poorly thought out laws, ad infinitum.
Now thats the first sensible thing you said all day…
What we are doing now isn’t working… Too many people are dying from gunshot wounds every day… We have a gun-happy culture and it’s sickening IMO…
Quit stereotyping.
Police take their jobs seriously as well and many have lost their lives in the line of duty and have become targets because of stereotyping… Again, quit stereotyping. For your information, I’m not a liberal progressive just because I feel there needs to be stronger gun control laws… I’m doing my best to follow in the path of Jesus who never taught us to retailiate, eye for an eye. He taught us to be peacemakers, not to have peacemakers. Remember?? peacemakers a term for guns that the people of the Wild Wild West used??I thought police were running around shooting unarmed black men. But when it comes to arguing gun control, they’re what? Prim and proper professionals?
See, this is one of the many problems whenever progressive arguments are taken up.
PS— most gun owners take their ownership seriously as well, and I wouldn’t be surprised if some of them were better at using their guns than the police.
There is zero correlation between gun laws and homicide rates, so what you’re saying, is restrictive gun laws are an end unto themselves. Whether they make people safer or not is irrelevant.No because circumstances change all the time… A person gets a FOID card and they move or get married to someone with a problem or has a psychological meltdown or becomes an alcoholic…But now he’s got 20 rifles in his possession!!!.. who keeps track of all that…? Who’s law abiding and who’s not? I just said persons can get several weapons from several shops and then sell them illegally on the street. If there were more regulations and limits on sale, they wouldn’t get so many. Yes we should make it harder for law abiding citizens to get a gun, as it is, it’s too easy. I say monitor them similar to how they monitor prescription drugs… What they are doing is not enough…
The Catholic Church calls self defense a right, and calls defending others a grave duty.
The Catholic Church is not a pacifist denomination.
Are you saying the Brady Bill didn’t help?
The Catholic Church doesn’t make a statement on gun control laws it leaves that up to the nations. Even the Pope in his recent Congressional visit spoke out against our gun laws.
Define “isn’t working.”
