Gun Control, FOR or AGAINST? Thoughts?

<p>Gun control is a bad idea in every sense of the word. The 2nd Amendment is intended to protect us from&nbsp;government abuses. We fought a war to liberate ourselves from an oppressive regime with the weapons we had at hand. A man with a gun is a citizen. A man without a gun is a subject. A cursory review of history proves that every time. Control the media, and eliminate any method by which the citizen might defend themselves, and you then control the world.</p><p><br></p><p>Gun control is an idea advanced by people who do not recognize or acknowledge personal responsibility. It places the focus on a physical object as opposed to the individual person using the object. There are quite literally thousands of laws passed by local, county, state and federal governments regulating firearms. If we enforced those, the need for more laws becomes moot. Historically (a review of DOJ records over the last couple of generations will show) more lawfully owned guns prevent or halt unlawful acts than do active police intervention. Eliminate those legal guns, and then criminals will be the only people with guns leaving the "law abiding" at their mercy.</p><p><br></p><p>Additionally, statistically people die in&nbsp;car crashes at least as often as gunshot wounds yet there is no lobby to outlaw cars (think DUI/DWI, states without helmet requirements for motorcycles, people who don't wear seatbelts, texting &amp; driving, etc.), or limited the number of cars a citizen can own. Likewise, some recent studies indicate that medical mistakes kill an unacceptably significant number of people but despite the debacle that is Obama Care, nobody wants doctors/healthcare outlawed. There are any number of other examples available to anybody willing to look beyond the emotion attached to the idea of gun control.</p><p><br></p><p>Controlling guns is not the problem. Controlling criminals or those with mental health issues is.</p>

I am FOR STRICT GUN CONTROL, let me provide an example:

A mother of 9 year-old twins shot a man in the head and neck while he was attempting to rob her home. That (to me) is gun control!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k7EfiSsQW2Y

<p>Grrr, ok fine you win, I'll bite.&nbsp; So here's my take on gun control.&nbsp; If people were running around randomly punching people in the face (sound familiar) would we say we need fist control?&nbsp; Some of these people have died too.</p><p>We have to learn to accept that in our society there are bad people and they are going to do bad things.&nbsp; The hardest thing to accept is unless you have them in prison you cant control anything that they do.</p><p>We just have to learn and prepare to defend ourselves when these things happen.&nbsp; Weep for those who we lost, learn from what happened, and try to prevent it again.&nbsp; A new peice of paper (law) will not change anyone from doing bad.&nbsp; They are already breaking the law to begin with.&nbsp; </p><p>Its like saying Im going to lower the speed limit because people keep speeding.&nbsp; People will still speed.&nbsp; You just have to deal with it.</p>