A serious question

[push me and i will resist]

Can someone please explain to me why you need a gun?
Simple question, should be a simple answer.


Unless you are a hunter I see no need to have one.

Bonus question.

If you live in a concrete jungle of a city and never hunt why do you need a handgun tucked in your jeans?

Super bonuses

Why can you get a gun anywhere? Why can you get an assault rifle?
Why can a regular person full out some forms and buy these killing machines?
Does everybody in the world that make decisions lack common fucking sense?

That's all, thanks for your time.

[Bentleyspop]

Well this ought to be fun



bet the first response will be from either Aerial or Unsung

[aerial]

I would say protection....
Why do we need abortion that's a killing machine?

[Bentleyspop]

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I would say protection....
Why do we need abortion that's a killing machine?

[push me and i will resist]

I would say protection....
Why do we need abortion that's a killing machine?

That is off topic and totally irrelevant here.

[ajarv21]

Why you need a gun?

People can protect there family and themselves.
If they don't hunt whats to say they dont enjoy going to shooting ranges and taking target practice.

Concrete jungles!

Maybe they are unsafe and carrying a concealed weapon makes them feel secure.

Why shouldn't you be able to buy a gun at a business they are sold, it is no different than buying a car (proof of liscense and insurance before you leave the car lot). I am not sure what all the criteria you have to have to buy a gun, but if you purchase it legally what difference does it make.

Not everyone in the world makes decisions lacking common sense. I have many friends that own guns and are responsible. I due not own guns, have no desire to own, hunt, or shoot anything, but I think that people should own them. Many people feed there families with their ability to hunt.

I think people need to stop blaming guns for the terrible things that have happened recently. They are all tragedies, but everybody automatically goes crazy over guns and gun control. I think the parents of these kids should be held responsible. If your child has a mental illness, then having guns in the house is probably a bad idea. Parents seem to use schools as a 8 hour day care. I hear stories from friends and relatives that are teachers and have no backing from the parents when something occurs with their child.

I think back to when I was in middle/high school 16-20 years ago and I was bullied and bullied other kids. They need to create their own coping mechanisms and overcome a little bit of an obstacle. I used it as encouragement to be better in life then them and feel that I have been able to do that. I know not every kid is able to think/act like that.

[MotoDC]

Nothing to see here.

Move along.

[push me and i will resist]

Ok I'll ask it a different way. Why doesn't Canada have the same problems with guns as the United States?
Do we feel safe enough in our country not to feel the need to protect ourselves and family?
Maybe we have less crazy people in Canada that shoot people with assault rifles.

Maybe the US should have the same gun laws as Canada for a year and see if it changes anything.

[DS1119]

Ok I'll ask it a different way. Why doesn't Canada have the same problems with guns as the United States?
Do we feel safe enough in our country not to feel the need to protect ourselves and family?
Maybe we have less crazy people in Canada that shoot people with assault rifles.

Maybe the US should have the same gun laws as Canada for a year and see if it changes anything.

Not sure. Perhaps Canada feels the protection that the US provides them. It's easy to have a calm feeling politically, which trickles to down to social behaviors, when you know the neighbors to your south will pretty much protect you just to protect our own interests. Perhaps it's because Canada is much more rural than the US. Perhaps it's the fact that Canada's total population is about 10% of the US. Perhaps it's the fact more people live in the state of California than in the entire country of Canada.


Apples and oranges.

[push me and i will resist]

Ok I'll ask it a different way. Why doesn't Canada have the same problems with guns as the United States?
Do we feel safe enough in our country not to feel the need to protect ourselves and family?
Maybe we have less crazy people in Canada that shoot people with assault rifles.

Maybe the US should have the same gun laws as Canada for a year and see if it changes anything.

Not sure. Perhaps Canada feels the protection that the US provides them. It's easy to have a calm feeling politically, which trickles to down to social behaviors, when you know the neighbors to your south will pretty much protect you just to protect our own interests. Perhaps it's because Canada is much more rural than the US. Perhaps it's the fact that Canada's total population is about 10% of the US. Perhaps it's the fact more people live in the state of California than in the entire country of Canada.



Apples and oranges.

All very valid points. Well said.
These are just questions that I have, I just wish everybody could get along.
I wish that mean people didn't have access to guns when angry or provoked.


And so I'm clear, I'm not trying to stir shit up or cause fights or arguments with anybody.

[dimitrispearljam]

its all Hollywood fault...

[DS1119]

its all Hollywood fault...

And if people don't buy into to that what people watch influences their decisions about what to do....well I would say just look at the commercials on tv and radio. Open a magazine or newspaper and throw away the articles. How many ads do you see. If people believe media and what we watch and read doesn't influence us you're blind.

[john roach]

I think Canadians worry about the shit the USA can drag us into as much as or more than we feel protected by them. As far as why there is less gun violence in Canada , don't worry I'm sure we will pick up the pace.our government is working hard at dividing the people it is ment to represent while at the same time driving up fear of what is happening around us.

[know1]

I started a similar thread right after the Newtown shooting.

There are three reasons:

1. Hunting
2. Target shooting
3. Murder

People claim "protection" but I'd like to see some statistics of when a gun actually protected someone.

[pandora]

We have a very violent young generation coming up.
Atlanta has a lot of senseless killing.

Did they really have to kill the boy for his Nike shoes?
Did they have to shoot the man at the car dealership to steal the truck?
Dead boy found... shot, took his cell phone walking home Christmas Eve from work
going to his mother's place for a family celebration. His last words moments before he was killed
"I love you Mom see you soon." For a phone they killed him?

These just happened this past week. Home invasions, robberies, car jackings,
GA Tech students can't walk the streets. They want to be able to carry a gun for protection.

Good people choose to own a gun for protection. Bad people choose to own a gun to
prey upon the good.
As long as there are bad people with guns good people need the choice to own one.