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Actually, I think most people support gun control on some level. The "do nothing" or "give everyone a gun" types are in the minority. We finally have a mobilized youth pro-gun control movement, which we did not have before, and the conversation is being sustained instead of dying down again so it would appear we are approaching a tipping point. People are getting sick of it. You can stand in the way (I don't know why you would) but you will probably find yourself left behind.
A gun wouldn't really help in any of those situations. You pull a gun on someone with a gun and they'll just blow you away before you can aim.
I am not sure how I will be left behind. Either they will be stopped at pushing foreward federal gun regulation or they will succeed. Either way I am going to be there in the end.
Well I disagree, but spectating on- what would happen if- is not really helpful. Different facts create different scenarios. To blanket all of these situations with "it wouldn't help" is simply wrong. Let it suffice that we can imagine facts of a situation where it is helpful and where it is not helpful.
You do realize that they wouldn't need guns to provide the illusion of safety if semi-autos and handguns were banned in the first place, which removes the very thing they're afraid of, right? But doing nothing to keep guns off the street just perpetuates the problem. There will just more people buying guns, shooting people with them or committing other crimes and more people buying guns out of fear and so on.
Aye, despite protestations to the contrary, armed self defense does happen, & it's generally successful. Although I do know one fellow who lost a gunfight, & barely survived to tell of it. Some might use his one example as proof that guns aren't useful. But were that cromulent, then he & other cops should be unarmed too.
The data already shows that guns aren't helpful in those situations so you might as well stop using that tired argument.
I disagree. Those incidents I described were from incidents that happened to people close to me. I have known guns to help too many times.
And your anecdotes don't overrule my anecdotes of almost being killed by a gun. Nor does it overrule the statistics.
The data shows that based on 300 million guns many have not needed them. And of the people that did need them and there was a police report, more people were harmed by them.
I have no idea what you're trying to say at this point.
Nope it doesn't. I am not saying it does. I am only saying that I do not believe you or I have the right to take the gun away from the individual who does need it.
Pepper spray might be a good choice.
I don't have the right to take anything from you. But I can vote for politicians who can pass gun control laws and for Presidents who can appoint judges that can make rulings that support gun control, too. I do not believe that anyone needs a gun aside from something like hunting and you certainly shouldn't be using a semi-auto, handgun or shotgun to do that. I do not support the paranoid siege mentality of Americans.