What are some Pros and Cons to Gun Control? - Help.com

Depends where you live.

USA

Gun control only helps the criminals because they are the only ones that will have them, or don’t you see that. I will surrender my guns when they pull them out of my cold dead hands. That phrase will ring true now and forever. Hope this helps :-)

The Clue wrote:
Gun control only helps the criminals because they are the only ones that will have them, or don’t you see that. I will surrender my guns when they pull them out of my cold dead hands. That phrase will ring true now and forever. Hope this helps :-)

Thanks I will keep that in mind

What I’ve heard is that you can’t carry a firearm from one State to the next but that’s true among few States right? Where I am from, gun control law doesn’t work. They closed a few shooting rinks because some politicians thought that way they will keep gun related crimes, when in fact when they implemented gun control, gun related crimes high rocketed. In my city, they didn’t target the criminals.

beatricegalant wrote:
What I’ve heard is that you can’t carry a firearm from one State to the next but that’s true among few States right? Where I am from, gun control law doesn’t work. They closed a few shooting rinks because some politicians thought that way they will keep gun related crimes, when in fact when they implemented gun control, gun related crimes high rocketed. In my city, they didn’t target the criminals.

What I can say is people can have handguns for self protection and yes laws change among states. That is very strange when gun control is implemented crime related increased. Thanks

There you go, gun control only targets the people that are law abiding and it doesn’t stop crime it only increases it. The criminals know that you don’t have any way of protecting yourself against them so why not invite them in so they can rob you blind. LMAO! Hope this helps :-)

The Clue wrote:
There you go, gun control only targets the people that are law abiding and it doesn’t stop crime it only increases it. The criminals know that you don’t have any way of protecting yourself against them so why not invite them in so they can rob you blind. LMAO! Hope this helps :-)

I got it Thanks

Why is owning a gun in the USA still legal. I would have thought that with all the crime and deaths caused by them the government would have banned them.

Anonymous wrote:
Why is owning a gun in the USA still legal. I would have thought that with all the crime and deaths caused by them the government would have banned them.

I agree, but I think the idea of self-protection still keeping guns around.

“Every citizen shall have the right to keep and bear arms in
the lawful defense of himself” Article 1, Section 23

But people would need to protect themselves with guns if everybody else didn’t have them.

Anonymous wrote:
But people would need to protect themselves with guns if everybody else didn’t have them.

We dont live in a perfect world -

The pros are limited. But one pro would perhaps be the idea of fewer public shootings such as a school massacre.

The cons should be fairly obvious. In the event of a home burglary, many families would be without an effective weapon for protection and probably suffer. Matter of fact, the cons can be concluded by just saying that self-defense would be limited for those people who are responsible enough to legally own and use firearms. Criminals would still have easy access to guns no matter what new restrictions are established on firearms.

The Clue wrote:
Gun control only helps the criminals because they are the only ones that will have them, or don’t you see that. I will surrender my guns when they pull them out of my cold dead hands. That phrase will ring true now and forever. Hope this helps :-)

so are you a criminal? b/c if gun control only puts them in their hand then you must be, right? we do have gun control in the US, but its to wishy washy in my opinion. I am a firm believer in to each his own. But I would rather not have guns around in public. They make me nervous. I worked in a mall and some dude that came in all the time brought his and wore it tucked into the back of his jeans “gangster style” for lack of a better word. And customers would leave when they saw it. Thats not fair to our business. After doing it a few times he was told not to come back with it again or they would call the cops. And just a little side note there is strict gun control in Canada and they only have 10 gun deaths a year on average. People can still own weapons, but no assault rifles and what not. I dont think that’s a bad idea at all

its sad. people who own a gun are more likely to be killed or kill someone else with that gun than they are to be killed by a criminals gun. so the personal safety argument is ridiculous.

That’s just handguns though. im not sure what the turnover on rifles is. but i have less issue with people having rifles. Its the ease in which you can buy a rifle that bothers me. any nut can walk into a shop and pick one up.

but back to hand guns. people who own guns and want to be more protected are part of the problem they wanted to solve by buying a gun. they make the rest of us less safe. and its mostly becuase they like the power. its easier to kill when you own a trigger to do it with. its also easier for someone else to kill you when your holding that trigger.

name with no face wrote:
its sad. people who own a gun are more likely to be killed or kill someone else with that gun than they are to be killed by a criminals gun. so the personal safety argument is ridiculous.

That’s just handguns though. im not sure what the turnover on rifles is. but i have less issue with people having rifles. Its the ease in which you can buy a rifle that bothers me. any nut can walk into a shop and pick one up.

but back to hand guns. people who own guns and want to be more protected are part of the problem they wanted to solve by buying a gun. they make the rest of us less safe. and its mostly becuase they like the power. its easier to kill when you own a trigger to do it with. its also easier for someone else to kill you when your holding that trigger.

very well said. Thats how I feel too