I Don't Think Guns Make Us Safer

I think we should give them up if the criminals would but that won't never happen so they are a necessary evil for some. Just a hobby for others.

In the right hands they make us safer.

The biggest risk of carrying a gun is can you use it to kill someone? i bet most can not ,not when your face to face with another living breathing person. most if not military or police trained will hesitate if not outright freeze. shooting a person is not like shooting a target.that hesitation will get you killed,many times with your own weapon ,which has been taken from you .if you did not have the gun ,you might have survived. are you ready to kill?

I agree there is nothing safer about everyone having a gun. A gun is a weapon not a shield. Besides if a person goes nuts it's better that they don't have the firepower to kill a bunch of random people and with a bit of luck he can be detained before he even kills one. If everyone goes armed it does nothing by the time they can realize what's going on he can fire off several shots etc. The silly things people say are "criminals will get guns anyway", which is true but HOW MANY of them? It's not the same when career criminals and organized crime cells have guns to when every little pickpocket is packing and each and every crime comes with a gun attached. If criminals know you have guns they'll just have more guns and shoot first cause you know... they're criminals. While in most countries criminals don't carry guns cause they know their victims don't either and small criminal activities don't end with someone getting shot dead. The bans on guns might seem inefective because some criminals do have them even in european countries that ban guns, but HOW MANY do have them, very few simply because being a banned and scarce object (to sell an illegal gun you'd first have to steal one and since close to no citizens have one you have little merchandise for a lot of demand) and you know what scarce offer means right? High prices. So an illegal gun might be a couple hundred in the US while it will be closer to thousands in a country with a gun ban, and it doesn't even make sense to use a gun in a crime since it makes you easier to find in a gun ban country. So you'll say "oh but the criminals would still come at you with a knife!" true.. but how many people have you ever heard got stabbed in a "drive by" or innocent bystanders stabbed in a public hit on someone?

Whether a gun carrying population makes people safer against assault is always going to be debated. One aspect of a large number of gun carrying civilians that is not debatable is the number of accidental shootings....

There is a study published at Harvard's law school. It states that 90% of firearm homicides are committed by someone with at least 1 felony on their record. The average is 4 felonies. The point is that gun crimes are almost always committed by people with a history of violence. Given there were more than 9,000 firearm homicides last year, and God knows how many shootings, I'd say far too many people got access to a gun who are not legally eligible.

And guns are a deterrent. When polled, criminals say they look for situations in which they won't encounter someone who is armed.

I personally think it would be a scary thought knowing everyone has a gun and on a bad day might actually use it in a way we are lucky in Australia our gun laws are a lot tighter but on a positive side at least having guns you might be able to thin out the heard by shooting all the stupid people !!!! Lol 😂

Because America! And because Freedom!

Consider this...since 1993, gun violence in the US has been declining steadily year over year. It's down more than 50% since then, and you can verify that via the FBI Uniform Crime Report. There were roughly 180 millions legally owned firearms at that time. Today, it's estimated that Americans legally own approximately 400 million firearms. So...gun crime is down significantly, yet gun ownership is up significantly. These facts are undeniable.

Now...I'm not going to say that reduction in violence is the direct result of increased gun ownership...but it's clear that more guns DO NOT make us less safe.

It's a complicated issue. I will admit that I am in favor of gun control. If there is a gun around, I want to control it. HA!

So what ? You're going to cower in the face of your attacker expecting someone else to risk their life to defend yours?

we had a 2 day active shooter safety drill for faculty staff and students where I teach. it was noted that there was a legally armed student at the Oregon community college mass shooting who simply escaped and did not engage the shooter. we was instructed that a legally armed person is not an impromptu police officer.

Compare USA crime and shooting statistics with other countries.. The horse has probably bolted, though. There's probably no possibility of any change.

@Ynotisay: accusing me of lying?http://www.theacru.org/harvard_study_gun_control_is_counterproductive/

There's the synopsis of the article. In it is the link to download the .pdf