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If a gun is a tool, why is there no right to bear tools? Because guns are actively deadly and used to kill people. In the 1700s, that would have had a different societal context, as the colonies were tumultuous and had a rocky relationship not only with Britain but with each other. But in the 2020s, they're just used to commit murder. You rarely ever hear about the so-called "good guy with a gun" and you hear a hell of a lot about entire classrooms of slain children. Rights are a man made invention and aren't actually real. "Giving up rights is never the answer to any problem" is a sentence you made up and could easily be debated.
When the government gives up its guns, I'll give up mine. Not before.
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Taking away guns does nothing for the anger people have when they want to kill another. They will just resort to other lethal tools.
What you hear about, comes from what you're listening to. Traditional news doesn't cover many defensive uses because it doesn't generate as many views as a mass shooting. "If it bleeds, it leads" has been the motto of news organizations for decades. Look to other spaces and you'll hear stories of people defending their home, business, etc. Colion Noir on YouTube has done some really interesting interviews with people doing that in the last couple of weeks. The FBI stats had something like 3-5 million defensive gun uses a year in the US. When seconds matter, the police are minutes away
Ban guns and who is left with them? The government and criminals. Do you trust them for all eternity?
You rarely ever hear about the so-called “good guy with a gun” and you hear a hell of a lot about entire classrooms of slain children.
Media bias. If it bleeds it leads, if it's scary it gets ratings, and tragedies involving children draw even more attention.
Hell let's try this, without looking it up: How many homicides do you think happen in a year in the US? How many of those do you think happen with rifles (since those tend to be the target of "assault weapon" legislation)?
How many people do you think have been killed in public mass shootings (defined as a shooting with more than three casualties, that did not wholly take place in a single private residence, and was not secondary to some other crime - aka Columbine/Aurora/Sandy Hook style shootings, as opposed to something like gang violence or robberies gone wrong), between August 1966 and May 2021?
If a gun is a tool, why is there no right to bear tools?
Because no one has historically tried to de-tool the populace, so one hasn't been needed. Assault the right to repair a bit harder and maybe we'll get there.
Why is it so important to have the rights to have guns? Have you seen any country got destroyed because the people aren't allowed to have guns?
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Logical fallacy. Me vomiting doesnt kill classrooms full of children. Also, how does owning a gun protect you? The studies have been done. People who own guns are far more likely to kill themselves and their family than they are to kill an attacker.
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Because, as a country that already has so many guns, it's not so simple to just say, "fuck it, no more guns". Just three days ago my neighbor lost his marbles and decided to shoot up his apartment at 2am. I share a wall with this psycho.
The cops didn't even bother to come out even though I had video proof of the incident.
I own a weapon for this exact reason. I have a family to protect and if I can't even depend on the resources that are supposed to be there to protect us from this, then I will continue to own a weapon.
I lived in Japan for almost a decade, guns are almost non-existent there. It was awesome.
I wish it could be like that here in the US but there would need to be a radical shift in public perception of the police and each other for that to ever happen.
Edit: corrected spelling from weapoon to weapon lol.
You just said it how awesome it is to live in a country without guns.. something has to be done. Stricter gun control is a step in the right way. Like you've said, it will need a long time to correct that. Years, even decades. But if nothing is changed, it will stay like that forever.
I absolutely agree. Mental evaluations or other processes or restrictions would be welcomed. I by no means feel that we should just leave things exactly as they are. However too many people just scream about banning weapons with no forethought into the subject.
It's the community's job to keep guns from dangerous people (like people who would be cops), not the state's. Giving up rights is never the answer to any problem.
Wait hold on can you go more in depth about what you mean by this? It's sounding like if I think someone is dangerous I should go and take their guns.
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Why is the #1 cause of death for children in the US firearms then? Countries with stricter gun control don't have these issues.