Gun control laws, good or bad?

January 17, 2007 7:54pm CST
Should citizens be allowed to carry fire arms? Why or why not? Me personally I feel yes, we should. To me it’s a given…Banning private owned fire arms, only allows the criminals to have the weapons and leave us law biding citizens unprotected. But I would like to hear what others think, so what’s your opinion? I read all, I rate all, but I can not respond to all. Thanks in advance.
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hellboi
@hellboi (661)
• Philippines
19 Jan 07
i believe it is right to have laws to regulate ordinary citizens to carry fire arms. cause come to think of it, you might just be handing out these weapons to criminals, i mean they are citizens too, right?
hellboi
@hellboi (661)
• Philippines
19 Jan 07
in short we need the laws, they are doing us more good than harm
lolloldrag
@lolloldrag (78)
• Romania
18 Jan 07
no
nw1911guy
@nw1911guy (1131)
• United States
19 Jan 07
Any reason why?
atticus
@atticus (1379)
• Italy
19 Jan 07
good,definitely,but not enought as we can see....
crazyrk
@crazyrk (817)
• Brazil
18 Jan 07
I with we need to be allowed to carry weapons ! Why ? Because if I don't want, I'll not buy one either but the robbers don't need to know that I don't have one, or if I want to have one I can defend myself ! I live in Brazil and weapons are allowed here ! Good bye, crazyrk.
nw1911guy
@nw1911guy (1131)
• United States
19 Jan 07
Good to hear, and you have an excellent point. By allowing the citizens to carry a handgun concealed, the criminals have absolutely no idea who is armed and who isn't. Kind of a nice deterrent.lol
boogasmom
@boogasmom (149)
• United States
18 Jan 07
I think with proper training and paperwork anyone over the age of 25 should be able to carry. I know some ask why the age thing. Well because hopefully buy then maturity will have set in and the level of responsibility has been raised. It is like turning 21, what is the first thing most people do?? Spend at least the next month or more getting drunk. So I would hope by that age, we are responsible enough not to kill anyone or get ourselves killed.
072006
@072006 (1276)
• India
18 Jan 07
bad i feel so!!!
SunlightSwoon
@SunlightSwoon (1060)
• United States
18 Jan 07
I think there is no easy answer to this comment, because as long as there is evil and evil people, we will always have to be prepared to defend ourselves. And as long as technology moves forward weaponry will also become more lethal and destructive. It seems like we are on a road that will surely lead to everyones doom and demise. Because it seems that continued escalation is the only answer to the problem. I realize my answer goes a little beyond what you asked, but when I seen the question, I immediately thought, weapons good or bad, and I started to run with that idea...SS