Statistics speak both for and against gun control.
For: Your gun is several hundred percent more likely harm a family member or a friend than an intruder. If you pull a gun on an intruder you are more likely to die than if you don't. Guns escalate far more problems than they solve.
Add to this the psychological trauma that comes with killing someone, even an intruder. You can sit on a forum and yap about how it is your right and bla bla bla but in reality your life will never be the same again.
Against: Canadians have slightly more fire arms per capita than Americans and their gun related violence is in line with most of western Europe and far below the US.
But when will you ever need to have your gun within 10 sec? Someone breaks in? Either they go for you or they go for your stuff. If they go for you, they will have a way of neutralizing you that is better than you have for stopping them (because they will know who you are, the basics of your defensive meassures and will have thought out how to deal with you, because they have prepared properly), or they go for your stuff (which means they won't be in your room 10 sec after entering the premesis). They will wake you up by either breaking down your door or some window. This is the point where you're supposed to wake up, and from that moment, you probably have a minute or two before they're actually in your room and properly oriented enough to aim a gun or a knife at your face (because they're not a properly trained hit squad aiming to kill you). In this time you should have more than enough time to roll out of your bed (which will disorient them even more), punch in the 8digit code on your safe, pull out your already armed gun and turn around, waiting for them to open the door from your halfway safe position behind your bed.
Still haven't seen a decent argument on why people who haven't been trained to do a certain job need to have firearms in their house. Even if trained, why the fuck does someone want to own a firearm in their house? Are your countries/cities so unsafe? And if so, don't you think it's time to invest in more prevention insted of more countermeasures?
Are we talking about his early Hong Kong career or his dreadful Hollywood films?
Shooting to disable is a really bad idea, if you have a gun for home defence then in the rare event that you have to use it, it's to threaten not to shoot with. And if you do need to shoot, there's every chance you'll kill what you're shooting at. Guns don't work like in the movies.
As I say in every one of these threads, I'd remove all gun regulation, but tie liability of crimes related to guns to their manufacturing and sellers. Attach a massive financial liability to the industry that profits on the products and let them figure out what requirements or regulations they have. I'm willing to bet you would need to buy gun insurance, as soon as that happens... I would love to see a preexisting condition determined by insurance, that inhibits gun ownership... Crazy runs in the family?
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Essentially, either let's have armed "guards" (cops) in every street corner and every doorway, or just stop handing out guns like Halloween candy to every friggin lunatic who wants to buy one.
Personally, I think the second option is more in line with liberty and sanity, but I hear NRA and their Republican puppets object, so I guess it will have to be the cops-everywhere solution.
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
According to the Wikipedia page, the US has had 77 deaths as a result of a school shooting since 2010. This includes the shooter themselves and is inflated by the 28 of Sandy Hook. Most of them end in none or shooters only death and a few injuries. This is a very miniscule problem that effects a VERY VERY miniscule amount of the population of the US. Intending to ban guns for such a small problem is ridiculous.
And for the love of Buddha, please don't ever give a teacher or student a weapon and expect them to keep a school safe. Teachers are fucked up enough as it is. All it will take is one to snap cause she got jewed out of her pension before she decides to shoot up the entire school as recompense.
School shooting is a problem without a real cause and without a real solution. All we can really do is institute and practice safety and lock down procedures in the event someone does show up with a gun. My 8 year old daughters school already does this.
And for the hopefully the last time ; Banning or restricting guns will do very little to stop school shootings in America. If someone wants to do it bad enough, they will find a way.
People working 2 jobs in the US (at least one part-time) - 7.8 Million (Roughly 4.9% of the workforce)
People working 2 full-time jobs in the US - 360,000 (0.2% of the workforce)
Average time worked weekly by the US Workforce - 34.5 hours
Those three things aren't so unreasonable that you wouldn't have to take them into account as potential contingencies. It's not like we're talking about aliens beaming it up to the mother ship or something. In fact, one of the main ways that criminals get their weapons in the first place is by stealing them from people who thought they were being responsible.
Or are you just so bothered that somebody raised an objection to your argument that you can't even fathom a situation in which it might fail?
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi