America’s suffering has become so great, how is it suprising to have crazy people running around shooting each other? I do not think this gives crime the excuse to run our nation but believe that some of the REAL issues at hand are the ones listed above. When a wound is ignored the pain will increase until you have dealt with it. The body will not heal a wound it does not feel. Thus is the bane of leprosy, the inability to feel or recognize a wound. do we suffer as a people from social and political leprosy? i wonder. to see the americans around me going about their life, accepting fate to persecuted by our government through inflation (a problem caused by government deficit spending), accepting a life of physical pain and illness caused by malnutrition and toxins in food, and just accepting the life planned for them by the mass media, corporations and government, the prospect of all of this stirs a great sadness within me. well i am not going to accept it all! I plan to stand up for myself and put an end to all this madness!!! i want a free and prosperous America!! not a depressed, depraved and oppressed America. let’s put the blame for our great pain where it lies and take responsibility for our actions and lifestyles! AMEN!!

Benjamin Franklin said: “he who gives up liberty for security deserves neither”. I really believe that. we need to keep our arms so we can keep the government in check. Also, it has been proven now that gun control does NOT reduce crime. do some research for yourself. even just some common sense can reveal the lie that more guns makes more crime. Crime is a social problem, not a gun problem. think about it. criminals are not going to obey the law so what makes you think they will not find ways to own even if it is illegal. Marajuanna is illegal but everyone knows how easy it is to get. Crack, heorine, meth all are illegal but still there is plenty of money in the drug bussiness circulating. Drugs were actually used much LESS before they were made illegal.

Yes, they are. Logical conclusion? Gun control here would be as effective as drug control is here. What is so hard to grasp about this? These claims that gun control would reduce gun deaths are predicated on the assumption that gun control laws effectively keep all individuals from having guns. How realistic is that assumption? Look at prohibition and the ‘war on drugs’ for the answer. And, if the fundament assumption gun control arguments are based on is false,.. well, this isn’t rocket science.

@DonLatt WTF with Hitler and Staline forbidding guns? there is nothing related with the US situation
Like stated in “Bowling for colombine” by Michael Moore the problems are not the guns by themselves : Look how many Guns per citizen exist in Canada… (aprox same rate as in US)
USA had a big History of violence ? Neither => Germany, France, Spain, England, Ireland etc.

You can twist as long you want, USA is sick and if weapons themselves aren’t THE problem they are a BIG part of the problem
Look the madness in It brightness : Virgina Tech “Murder Party” => people jump to buy more guns knowing well that they won’t be able anyway to carry guns inside of similar place (campus, Stadium, etc.)

Letting your fear drive your way to live give anyone the power to push you where they want you to go :
Native American Indian
“Segregation” KKK
Irak

Charlton Eston Thanks you very much
Welcome to the modern Far (?) West

Basic Psychology : To control people you must scare them not directly but make them scared of something they thought to be safe :
the normal guy next door..
But if you want to drive them more precisely, play with their natural fear of unknown or of their own percieved way to judge other people :
Color skin, accent, nationality, religion, culture, wearing style, distingctive marks (big nose, flying ears, red hair, left handed), sexual orientation, politics (Witch hunting , ah good old day , thanks to Mc Carty)…

Look yourself in the mirror and try to see what other can look at… OMG not like themselves, we all are different, but driven by the same fears

You can be the next Mad Killer, because You DO or CAN have easely a gun in your pocket/at home/in your car etc…

Guns are like a drug in US, there is always need for MORE to get you fix on FEAR

Thanks god alle american citizen are not like you, but like windows , anyone want a gun because the guy/girls next door have one

I can already tell that you, like most Europeans, are socialist. However, strict gun control is a horrible thing.

You do realize that both Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin banned guns when they were “elected” into office, right? This prevented any opposing citizens from initiating a coup de’tat, which would have eliminated the extreme communist paranoia they bought to the table. Oh, yeah. And the holocaust too.

If more people had guns, crimes would go DOWN. Criminals would be on their toes when robbing a liquor store, as they might get shot to death. This goes for just about any crime.

More guns would prevent any tyrannical government movements as well. If everyone had guns, any future Hitlers wouldn’t have a chance. If gun control were in effect during the revolutionary war, I guarantee the United States would be known as “New Britain”.

With a gun, you don’t need to wait for a police officer, because it’s a not a police officers job to defend you. They enforce laws, and that’s it. They’re not going tobe there when you get robbed at knifepoint. Your gun however, will be.

Basically, guns are great. Instead of getting rid of them, people should be required to own one. This is not coming from some southern-born, hunting fanatic, but a concerned citizen whom works in a cubicle on a day to day basis. Perosnally, I despise Europe for their socialistic views, and if you live in the UK, I’m sorry you’re being watched by cameras when you cross the street.