Comments on: Poll: Little Change In Views On Handguns

After Virginia Tech Shooting Spree, Most Still Want Stricter Gun Laws But Oppose Banning All Handguns

[torocaca]

"Is anyone out there that is for guns in the home are you for automatic rifles and guns?" Posted by starleo146 at 09:01 AM : Apr 24, 2007

You have no clue what you are talking about.

FYI automatic rifles [and guns] are illegal in any state unless specifically licensed to own them. Your grammar is like your thoughts--scrambled and incoherent.

[erasmus6]

If only you could see yourselves from the eyes of the rest of the world.

In fact someone else said it best, it went something like this: The whole world is watching you and shaking their heads.

All I know is I am FREE. I don't need to carry a gun to protect myself. Do we have crime, yes, but not enough to make me live in fear and feel the need to carry a gun to protect myself.

[lawandorder6]

afmca, I could not "agree" more. The first real thing said about gun control in a long long time.

[afmca]

We have the "spineless" liberals that want no guns and the "wacko" right wing that want bazookas. As long as these two groups control the argument for their own personal monetray gain, nothing will happen. The poll shows there is a middle ground where additional licensing would be okay; training a must; and a realistic ban on firearms that serve little purpose but to kill humans. If you got professional hunters together with sport shooting enthusiasts and police and trauma doctors I guarentee they could create a real list of attributes both a firearm and bullets would need to accomplish safe and efficient hunting, competitive shooting, and self protection. Unfortuantely the extremes want to keep their idiot arguments forefront so nothing happens and more tragedies occur.

[juwboy]

So, notblue, since law-abiding citizens don't rob banks, you're saying that we shouldn't have laws against bank robbery, are you?

[notblue]

NO gunlaws will work on psychos like Cho or any other CRIMINAL hell bent on crime, they only restrict the rights of LAW ABIDING citizens, you know the ones that actually follow the laws, HELLO!!!

[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
a-human-right.com

[lurch198]

Would you feel better if the CRIMINALS gun that he used to rape/kill/rob was registered? What difference would that make?
Registration in one step closer to confiscation. Why is it the elitest facists want to take away the guns? Cause in the society they invision, they are in charge. And armed people dont have to do what the tyrant tells them.

[processor2]

You CANNOT stop criminals by disarming potential victims...doesn't work.


For example:

Va. Tech was declared a "gun-free zone", and look what happened.


Also, when my state passed the concealed-carry law, rapes dropped by over 50 percent within the first year. Kind of hard to rape a woman if there's a gun in her purse.


...

[processor2]

You CANNOT stop criminals by disarming potential victims...doesn't work.


For example:

Va. Tech was declared a "gun-free zone", and look what happened.


Also, when my state passed the concealed-carry law, rapes dropped by over 50 percent within the first year. Kind of hard to rape a woman if there's a gun in her purse.


...

[lawandorder6]

"root cause analysis"? He does have any idel what it means. Why would he would say it, to show how stupit he is.

[lawandorder6]

mike71067, dumb dumb I really don't think any one with a hatchet. People like ypou with you dumb account of how something could happen that is no more likely to happen, should shut up and go away.

[heresmy2cent]

mike71067 says..."an armed populace is a deterrent to an out-of-control central government."

Absolutely correct, sir. Anyone with any sense knows that the gov't is not your friend.

The crybabies who want give up their rights to bear arms because they have no control over their crazy offspring do not speak for law abiding gun owners.

[mike71067]

"Guns are the problem, and guns will always be the problem, as long as we have people that don't think guns are the problem."
Posted by lawandorder6 at 09:08 AM : Apr 24, 2007

Thank God you're not in charge. Have you ever heard of "root cause analysis"? Apparently not. Guns are not the problem - the deterioration of our moral foundation IS the problem. Killers will kill with whatever implement they can find. So would you be happy if the VT murders were accomplished with a hatchet instead? You're a fool.

[mike71067]

"Is anyone out there that is for guns in the home are you for automatic rifles and guns? You do not hunt with those do you?"
Posted by starleo146 at 09:01 AM : Apr 24, 2007

First of all, I'm sorry you're ignorant. Gun ownership, as guaranteed by our Constitution, has nothing to do with hunting at all. It has to everything to do with the fact that an armed populace is a deterrent to an out-of-control central government. That's exactly the same condition that our founders experienced in their native countries, and it could happen here as well. That is the purpose of the Second Amendment - to ensure that the citizens are able to defend themselves against tyranny.

Since you displayed so much ignorance in your fitst sentence, it pretty much rendered the rest of your comment invalid.

[lawandorder6]

Guns are the problem, and guns will always be the problem, as long as we have people that don't think guns are the problem.

[starleo146]

Is anyone out there that is for guns in the home are you for automatic rifles and guns? You do not hunt with those do you? How many children have been killed with guns because parents do not lock them up I feel if your responsible you will know what to do with a gun it these dope dealers, ak-47 etc etc and the NRA that just can't see anything wrong with any gun. C'mon you NRA folks give me h#*l I know you are one of the biggest lobby in Wash. d.c. all your propaganda you put out is disgraceful. You could have your members and your org. just do it honestly o.k.

[heresmy2cent]

Guns aren't the problem. In the VT case (and Columbine High School), crazy young males with guns were the problem.

Let's get with the root problem. If these young nuts didn't have access to guns they would have used something else to kill people.

[mike71067]

The reason there's been little change in our views on guns is because unlike Dumbocrat politicians, Americans do not respond to tragedy with political knee-jerk reactions. We know that criminals will get guns even if guns are banned. The only people who will not have access to them will be honest Americans.

[cfin5]

Excellent gunownerdan! The good and accurate "historical" ammo that you just wrote is the best medicine against constitutional traitors. These dictators are heros to most of these politacally confused professors. I mean, these guys are batting 1000 in fifth column strategies against us. Am I supposed to keep my mouth shut about this and endanger my postarity more than it is already? NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT!!!