re: Sensible arguments for gun control

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luckily illegally modded guns are already illegal.

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So you're saying the only people with illegally modded guns are criminals.

That's gonna suck when a criminal invades my home with a plasma cannon and all I have is an M-60.

I guess if they have illegally modded a gun then they would be criminals.

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That's gonna suck when a criminal invades my home with a plasma cannon and all I have is an M-60.

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You should probably get a dog and some sort of shotgun for your home protection.

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I have no idea how many citizens would side w/ folks and their constitutional rights, and neither do you. That's a silly argument. My instinct is that most people will side w/ their paycheck, though, but I admire your faith in the idealism of our gov't employees when it happens to suit your argument.

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If the Gov't is sending in troops against citizens, then paychecks are probably the last thing on anyones mind. If you want to throw out a scenario, be open to all sides of it.

id guess the military to be somewhere near 50/50 on paycheck vs family, fed employees in other sectors 99/1 paycheck vs family and friends.

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If you don't need something that can kill that many peoplewhat's the argument for it?

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Alcohol accounts for over 88,000 deaths a year. What's the argument for keeping it legal?

Stonehog, its illegal for citizens to own enriched uranium. So there goes your nuke argument

We should probably require Breathalyzers on cars so innocents can't die in DUI's.

That isn't the way we do things.

And while I may not NEED it for self/home defense, I certainly can use it for those purposes if I so choose.

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People use that "30,000 people die from Gun Violence every year" fact like that's a big number.

30,000/313 million = 0.0096%

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You wanna know the statistic they never tell you?

70% of the gun related deaths in this country are with guns not registered to the individual committing the crime.

People who want to use guns for violence are going to have them regardless of the law.

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yes it is because I like to know i can defend myself. Thats good that y'all were naive and would rather depend on others. Nope, grew up in a neighborhood in Baton Rouge that was upper middle class. No, I live in a nice area where most of the violence isn't taking place but break ins are common in the good areas. In fact some mother fricker broke into my jeep about two weeks ago.

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So do you pack a parachute when you fly on an airplane? Will you not ride in cars that don't have airbags? Do you have someone taste your food at restaurants for you? I'm interested to know in what other facets of your life do you go to such extremes to protect yourself from imminent harm. Surely you wear a helmet while biking? And life vests at all times when on the water? You no doubt cab it home if you've had even a drop of alcohol...?

Who's really the naive one here? I can't speak for you, but for me to have that sort of bunker mentality would be highly detrimental to my quality of life. I may be robbed one day... it could happen. It's an extremely low probability, though, so I don't live my life like it will happen at any moment.

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I say no it is not, and that the rest of society is not safer. In fact I would say they are now less safe. why are they less safe? because now less law abiding citizens have weapons, therefore criminals know you are easy pickings. Some criminals are dumb but others are very aware and take advantage of an easy target and those not armed are the easiest targets.

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This is just complete and utter nonsense.

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Alcohol accounts for over 88,000 deaths a year. What's the argument for keeping it legal?
They tried to make it illegal and it didn't work because it's to easy to make yourself. I don't see a lot of backyard AR15 stills popping up if you make them illegal

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There are so many guns in circulation it wouldn't matter.