Comments on: Congress Passes Long-Stalled Gun Bill

Bill Inspired By Va. Tech Shootings Flags Gun Buyers With Past Mental Problems

[gunownerdan]

schoollord,
Without my use of a weapon to defend myself and my friend from two attackers, we could have both been killed. I guess you will never realize the importance of being able to defend yourself until you actually become a victim of crime yourself.
You want all citizens unarmed and defenseless, and this is a tyrannical governments dream-come true. Too bad you are so blinded by your own irrational bigotry that you can''t realize this simple fact.

[gunownerdan]

schoollord,
Yes schoollord, we all know that you think citizens should never be trusted to own weapons, just like Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao, Lenin, Mussolini, Mugabe, and basically every communist and fascist country that has ever existed. Maybe you would be much happier living in China or Cuba where all these evil gun nuts are not allowed.

[gunownerdan]

"But most gun deaths are related to legally owned guns."
Posted by schoollord

If a gun is stolen, it is no longer legally owned.
And ALL gun deaths are related to the illegal use of guns, except for those used in self defense.

[gunownerdan]

If people like schoollord always got their way, Americans would have handed over all our guns when King George banned them in 1775, and today we would still be a colony of England.

[nodemotwit]

12000 gun deaths a year are 12000 gun deaths a year and there''''s no way to excuse that.
Posted by closethippy1

The bulk of those are criminal vs criminal. So you want to ban guns, and then criminals, people willing to commit murder at the drop of a hat, are somehow going to follow THIS particular law ? Like the majority of them, up to that point, have been buying their guns through LEGAL channels ? Like the Billion $ illegal drug industry, who imports millions of pounds of illegal drugs to the US/yr, whom most of these criminals work for, is SOMEHOW incapable of importing millions of pounds of "illegal" guns/yr in to the US if they want to ? Or, given the importance of guns to their trade, they are also incapable of setting up their own multi-million $ off-shore gun manufacturing plant if they needed to (assuming anti-gun nirvana is reached and all legal US gun manufactures are closed down) ?

If your answer to all four is ''Yes'', then the only appropriate response is ''You are delusional''.

Death & taxes are all US citizens have any 100% guarantee on, and there are many ways to die, and death by gun is not the tall pole. As per ''04 CDC data: Your odds of being a US poison accident victim are higher that being a US gun homicide victim. How likely do you think it is that you yourself will be poisoned to death here in the US ? Not very likely, if you are like most of us. Then the threat of dying by gun homicide in the US is roughly half of that.

[gunnerv1]

Sorry Schoollord- I''m a little high up in the foodchain than that. By the way, Should you be called school marm as you ballz have been cut off. (Purdue University)

[gunnerv1]

I have made it a commitment to "pack heat" everywhere I go except to work, it''s one of those pussyfied "gun free zone" Universities.

[mainelyguns]

It would be nice to remove all the emotion and name-calling from the discussion. This is a right to life question: if one is being attacked, does one have the right to repel the attack? Can one use the best means available to repel the attack? No one is insisting that everyone protect himself and those around him. Some of us would like to have that ability, and are willing to accept the responsibility for our own lives and those of others. Guns are the best tool available at this point in time.

I believe in a woman''s (or man''s) right to choose what to do with her body. I choose to defend mine.

[gunownerdan]

Guns at home DO NOT INCREASE the chances of DEATH if you are not suicidal, not homicidal, and you know how to use them properly and keep them secure.

[gunownerdan]

With all those evil, murderous, and suicidal gun nuts out there killing themselves and every else, I will never choose to be totally helpless and defenseless against them.

[gunownerdan]

schoollord, sterotypes and generalizations are all you really have.
Your argument is based on nothing but emotion and irrational bigotry.

[gunownerdan]

schoollord said:
"We have the right to live...."

There is no right to live if you aren''t allowed to have the ability to defend that life from homicidal maniacs. It''s a lot easier to blame guns rather than blame the people who use them illegally and finding out why there are so many who do.

[gunownerdan]

"Gun owners use their guns as a replacement for their lack of manhood"
Posted by schoollord

Why must gun hating extremists always rely on stereotypes and generalizations?
Very typical.

[gunownerdan]

Like I said before,
You can hate guns and blame guns all you want. It will never change the fact that millions of Americans can and do responsibly own and use guns for hunting, collecting, target practice, and their own personal defense. Nothing will ever change this fact and the second amendment is just as important as any other part of the Bill Of Rights. If the government can ignore any one of the 10 amendments in the Bill Of Rights, then it can and will ignore them all.
If you ignore your rights they will go away.

[gunownerdan]

schooltard talks about me living in a fantasy world. That''s very funny!
Criminals prefer defenseless victims.
They always have and they always will.

[gunownerdan]

schoollord,
Guns are only as bad and murderous as the person who''s holding one.
Just like a car.
I could take an "assault SUV" and mow down dozens of people with it if I was homicidal and crazy enough.
Would anyone be blaming the SUV?

[gunownerdan]

There''s 12,000 homicides a year in America according to schoollord.
That''s about 32 a day in a population of 300,000,000+.
There are a minimum of at least 82,000 defensive gun uses every year.
That''s 224 a day.
How many of these 82,000 people would have been killed if they did not have a gun to protect themselves?
It''s very possible many of them would have been killed or injured.
Having a gun is a personal decision and requires responsibility.
Having the ability to protect your life and your loved ones is the most basic of human rights.
Responsible gun ownership saves lives and prevents crime, no doubt about it.

[gunownerdan]

Guns cause suicide?
So that''s why Japan, which has banned all guns, has one of the highest suicide rates in the world.
Blaming guns for suicide and murder is like blaming matches and gasoline for arson.
It''s like blaming the alcohol and the car when a drunk driver causes an accident.

[gunownerdan]

"Today we need a nation of minute men; citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as a basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.
The cause of liberty, the cause of American, cannot succeed with any lesser effort."
- President John F. Kennedy, January 29, 1961

[coolprophet]

closthippy pay attention maybe you might learn something 2nd amendment as it appears on original document "a well regulated militia,being necessay to the security of a free state,THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS,SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED."WORD FOR WORD AND UNLESS YOU ARE ON THE SUPREME COURT YOUR OPIONON MUST BE BASED IN IGNORANCE!GET A CLUE ABOUT AMERICAS FOUNDING PRINCIPALS DONT TAKE MY WORD UNLESS THAT IS THE WAY YOU DO YOUR RESEACH AS YOUR STATEMENT APPEARS THAT WAY TO COMMON FOLK LIKE ME I HAVE A TON OF WEAPONS AND I HAVE NOT EVER SHOOT ANYONE.THEY ARE TO KEEP THE GOVERNMENT IN CHECK.NOT TO COUNT THEY PROTECT MY FAMILY BECAUSE CRIMINALS GET ILLEAGAL GUNS AND TRY TO IMPOSE THERE WILL ON THE INNOCENT!when the last time you had a cop there exactly a the time he or she was needed?protect and serve when possible.most of these murders are crime on crime