Recent questions tagged gun control

Description : What provision in the House bills on gun safety would have prevented any of the mass shootings in the last 20 years?

Last Answer : You’re not really asking, but here. I did a quick Google search and found this for you. I’m not vouching for the accuracy of this article, but it seems to directly address your question by talking about types of legislation that gun-control advocates support.

Description : Shall we discuss Federalist Paper 29, by Alexander Hamilton?

Last Answer : It is, of course, one of the views that was discussed when the Founding Fathers were trying to set up the 2nd Amendment. But in reality, what Hamilton was suggesting was the formation of a standing army ... complete tyranny. It isn't far from that now, but we would have passed that point years ago.

Description : Did you march today?

Last Answer : Nope….I have a job. I had to work. I don’t support the cause.

Description : What in your opinion is the major difference between the gun law and/or gun ownership of US Citizens vs citizens of Switzerland?

Last Answer : answer:I think a lot of us see it as a right and a responsiblity. Looking back through our history, we have used them to take land from the native American Indians, then to defend that land from ... gun instructors, etc it's pervasive in our society and widely acceptable & popular in a lot of areas.

Description : Is the NRA's stance on background checks defensible?

Last Answer : Completely ignoring that the last three rampages (the cinema shooting, the school shooting and the breivik shooting) were performed with legally purchased weapons.

Description : Would someone armed with a firearm, typical of the time the second amendment was passed, be able to conduct massacres of the type we experience in our country today?

Last Answer : Multiple-shot weapons existed back then.

Description : What might be an intruders typical response be to being wounded by shotgun blast by the home owner?

Last Answer : First response: Ouch! Holy Shit! Second response: run away if they can, duck if they can’t, raise arms and yell “don’t shoot”.

Description : Why do people get confused about the relationship between the Second Ammendment and the slogan 'Gun Control'?

Last Answer : josie Gun control is keeping your gun muzzle on the target. The 2nd Amendment just says we can have weapons, it doesn’t say what weapons. Want to be a policeman or women going up against a guy with a 30 round or larger magazine? That amendment was written long before firepower came this far.

Description : Do you support gun control?

Last Answer : answer:I don't. It only generates an illusion of safety. Much like security guards and gated communities. We all know they're useless. The only gun control might work, is guns were completely ... different (and vast) topic with lots of things people don't want to hear about or acknowledge.