Gun Control?

[Monsterx]

What it means is that the government would be putting their law abiding citizens in dangerous situations without the right to protect themselves.

BTW.....you gotta love this argument too:

"Criminals will always get guns, they don't obey the laws"

And?

So that means we shouldn't make any laws since criminals are always going to disobey them, right?!?!?!

If we followed the logic of the NRA and far right we wouldn't get any laws passed.

[shrewsbury]

less guns equals less violence?

sure if it is the criminals that have less guns.

the more law abiding citizens with guns also equals less violence

[tpeichel]

With a federal government that is now keeping dossiers on all American citizens, flying drones above us to spy on us, and claiming the power to assassinate us without due process, Americans would be foolish to give into the emotions of the time and cave on gun rights.

[habsheaven]

less guns equals less violence?

sure if it is the criminals that have less guns.

the more law abiding citizens with guns also equals less violence

Where did you come up with this stat?

[pghin08]

Where did you come up with this stat?

Here's a stat I find interesting. Americans have 5 times as many gun murders as Canada. So I ask you, Habs. Why don't you want to go out there and shoot up your Canadian brethren?

[habsheaven]

With a federal government that is now keeping dossiers on all American citizens, flying drones above us to spy on us, and claiming the power to assassinate us without due process, Americans would be foolish to give into the emotions of the time and cave on gun rights.

dossiers on ALL American citizens? Really? Have you seen yours? When's the last time a drone flew over your house to take surveillance pictures? Do you have any idea how ridiculous that all sounds? Newsflash: it's not 1776!

[habsheaven]

Here's a stat I find interesting. Americans have 5 times as many gun murders as Canada. So I ask you, Habs. Why don't you want to go out there and shoot up your Canadian brethren?

Kurt, not sure where you are getting your stats from either - 5 times? As to your question, my self-worth and sense of manhood is not determined by the size of my gun.

[tpeichel]

dossiers on ALL American citizens? Really? Have you seen yours? When's the last time a drone flew over your house to take surveillance pictures? Do you have any idea how ridiculous that all sounds? Newsflash: it's not 1776!

I know crazy, right? Yet we have this:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/201...n-us-citizens/

In a secret government agreement granted without approval or debate from lawmakers, the U.S. attorney general recently gave the National Counterterrorism Center sweeping new powers to store dossiers on U.S. citizens, even if they are not suspected of a crime, according to a news report. Earlier this year, Attorney General Eric Holder granted the center the ability to copy entire government databases holding information on flight records, casino-employee lists, the names of Americans hosting foreign-exchange students and other data, and to store it for up to five years, even without suspicion that someone in the database has committed a crime, according to the Wall Street Journal, which broke the story.

Whereas previously the law prohibited the center from storing data compilations on U.S. citizens unless they were suspected of terrorist activity or were relevant to an ongoing terrorism investigation, the new powers give the center the ability to not only collect and store vast databases of information but also to trawl through and analyze it for suspicious patterns of behavior in order to uncover activity that could launch an investigation.

Kind of sticks a thumb in the eye of the whole right to privacy thing we are supposed to have here in the U.S.

[mrveggieman]

There isn't a purpose for that gun that you're requesting. But why should it be made illegal? Making the gun illegal only makes it illegal to the people that follow the laws anyway. Why should they be in a sense punished?

Making this gun illegal doesn't remove the gun from the population nor from the criminals that would use it for harm.

CHURCH!!

[mrveggieman]

This is a little off the subject but food for thought.It is great to do fire drills in schools but how many schools burn down in a year.Now with our messed up society do you think it is time to teach and run drills for these kinds of senseless attacks.Try to get adults and children to find safety spots in case of an animal like this gets loose.

A couple of years ago Cuba prepared for an attack by the United States and had drills in their schools. So unfortantely we may have to go down that road in our schools too.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14178386...ces-us-attack/