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Skull, while I understand where you are getting at I think you are taking Kris's comments a bit extreme.
If we were to outlaw guns right now, I suspect a few things would happen:
1. People would get furious and some serious violence could occur where people "protect" their right to own a gun and could lead to a lot of innocent people getting killed.
2. Guns would turn into a MAJOR black market object, and gangs would have more power over normal people since they could have guns while normal people could not (and don't tell me police will take care of gangs because police tend to be shoot from my experience). Think of how things happened when alcohol was prohibited, and my guess is it will be something like that, except with dangerous weapons (in other words, not good at all).
3. This one is only a possibility, but if the government decided to increase it's power and authority or to start invading people's homes, we would have almost no protection against them (I don't want no V for Vendetta crap going on any time soon!).
I also agree with Kris that except in rare cases, guns don't kill people unless the person really wants to kill someone.
That all said, I know this isn't a perfect situation, and I can see how people from more strictly weapon-controlled countries may see this as a bad thing (it kind of is). I wish things could be more tightly controlled without making it impossible for people to own a weapon (so that crazy people can't get their hands on a weapon) but I doubt that will happen any time soon. So honestly, I don't really see a clean solution to this problem. The big thing is, we as a nation need to stop being so hateful towards each-other so that people won't have the desire to hurt others so often. As for how to do that, well, that's a big debate that I don't really want to dig into right now.
I just wanted to defend Kris a bit. Skull, it's not fair for you to say he's as bad as a person who goes and actually shoots children when you are taking his comments to the far extreme and assuming he thinks that guns should hardly even be controlled at all. In fact, by taking your comments to the extreme Skull, I could say you are no better than a gang member who shoots up some guys family who lost their gun because of gun control laws. I know this isn't true though. The truth is it's a very gray argument and (as far as I can see) no matter what choices we make there will be some pretty bad sacrifices. So there is no need to be so verbally violent towards Kris, okay?
If we were to outlaw guns right now, I suspect a few things would happen:
1. People would get furious and some serious violence could occur where people "protect" their right to own a gun and could lead to a lot of innocent people getting killed.
2. Guns would turn into a MAJOR black market object, and gangs would have more power over normal people since they could have guns while normal people could not (and don't tell me police will take care of gangs because police tend to be shoot from my experience). Think of how things happened when alcohol was prohibited, and my guess is it will be something like that, except with dangerous weapons (in other words, not good at all).
3. This one is only a possibility, but if the government decided to increase it's power and authority or to start invading people's homes, we would have almost no protection against them (I don't want no V for Vendetta crap going on any time soon!).
I also agree with Kris that except in rare cases, guns don't kill people unless the person really wants to kill someone.
That all said, I know this isn't a perfect situation, and I can see how people from more strictly weapon-controlled countries may see this as a bad thing (it kind of is). I wish things could be more tightly controlled without making it impossible for people to own a weapon (so that crazy people can't get their hands on a weapon) but I doubt that will happen any time soon. So honestly, I don't really see a clean solution to this problem. The big thing is, we as a nation need to stop being so hateful towards each-other so that people won't have the desire to hurt others so often. As for how to do that, well, that's a big debate that I don't really want to dig into right now.
I just wanted to defend Kris a bit. Skull, it's not fair for you to say he's as bad as a person who goes and actually shoots children when you are taking his comments to the far extreme and assuming he thinks that guns should hardly even be controlled at all. In fact, by taking your comments to the extreme Skull, I could say you are no better than a gang member who shoots up some guys family who lost their gun because of gun control laws. I know this isn't true though. The truth is it's a very gray argument and (as far as I can see) no matter what choices we make there will be some pretty bad sacrifices. So there is no need to be so verbally violent towards Kris, okay?
