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Do you think the US needs better regulated gun control?

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    I have to conduct this survey for school on my subject of this stupid state-Required project and I decided to conduct it here.
    Don't worry I will not need names or anything I just need to get 30 people. I already have 16. I just need 14 More.

    Please help me out.
     
    It doesn't matter at this point. Gun control means a lot of things but I can't see crime rates being affected too horribly because I doubt that criminals are going to feel too awful about obtaining a gun via illegal methods. If there weren't already so many arms, the problem could potentially be fixed. However, it's gotten to a point where it's just kind of... "nothing you can do about it, sucks for us"
     
    It's not going to do anything for crime, It's just as easy to stab someone, beat them with an object etc. as to shoot them. "controlling" guns would essentially kill a multi-billion dollar industry in the U.S.

    That's my opinion on the matter.
     
    Need just 9 more...
     
    What would be the point of regulating gun control? All your doing is ruining a lot of people's jobs. And like stated above, it's really not that hard to kill someone - You don't need a gun to do it unless you have no clue how to use a tree branch or rock.
     
    Simply put, stricter gun control laws will do nothing to prevent criminals from getting a gun. Take a look at drugs. They're illegal, but guess who still has them? Criminals.

    If you haven't seen this video, I'd suggest you watch it.
    youtube.com/watch?v=M1u0Byq5Qis
     
    Negative. I enjoy my the weapons I own and would be supremely pissed if the government wanted to place stricter rules on guns.
     
    Yes. It it too easy for people to get a hold of guns right now and then things like the Holocaust Museum murder happen.
     
    Scarf said:
    I imagine a drive-by stabbing would be very difficult.

    And people support gun control not because it will make violent crime disappear (no one is that naive), but because it will reduce the number of victims. You can run away from someone with a knife.
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    But those criminals won't be carrying a knife. They're all ready breaking the law, one more for a superior weapon won't change things. Instead you now have someone who is overpowered against someone who is helpless which could change to equal grounds if a person is allowed to carry a gun of their own. Banning guns does not hurt the criminals, it hurts the prey and will only raise crime rates and increase the number of victims. Australia did a complete ban on guns and these are the results after only one year:

    * Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2%
    * Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6%
    * Australia-wide, armed-robberies are up 44% (yes, FORTY-FOUR PERCENT)
    * In the state of Victoria, homicides-with-firearms are up 300%
    * Figures over the previous 25 years show a steady decrease in homicides-with-firearms (changed dramatically in the past 12 months)
    * Figures over the previous 25 years show a steady decrease in armed-robbery-with-firearms (changed dramatically in the past 12 months)
    * There has been a dramatic increase in breakins-and-assaults-of- the-elderly
    * At the time of the ban, the Prime Minister said "self-defense is not a reason for owning a firearm"
    * From 1910 to present, homicides in Australia had averaged about 1.8-per-100,000 or lower, a safe society by any standard.
    * The ban has destroyed Australia's standings in some international sport shooting competitions
    * The membership of the Australian Sports Shooting Association has risen to 112,000, a 200% increase, in response to the ban and as an attempt to organize against further controls, which are expected.
    * Australian politicians are on the spot and at a loss to explain how no improvement in "safety" has been observed after such monumental effort and expense was successfully expended in "ridding society of guns". Their response has been to "wait longer".

    https://www.geoffmetcalf.com/aus.html
     
    2 more are needed for it to be done...
     
    GB140 said:
    I think it is needed, and if the police thinks that you have a gun, they should have the right to heck you. I think, at least.
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    How would you feel if you were randomly stopped and searched while everyone was watching?

    You would be embarrassed and annoyed that you were seen as a possible criminal.
     
    Alinthea said:
    How would you feel if you were randomly stopped and searched while everyone was watching?

    You would be embarrassed and annoyed that you were seen as a possible criminal.
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    I guess. I didn't really put much thought into it at first... :\
     
    I'd say something but I can't do it without it being either censored or ghey looking.

    Alinthea said:
    How would you feel if you were randomly stopped and searched while everyone was watching?

    You would be embarrassed and annoyed that you were seen as a possible criminal.
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    The police in our own country currently do conduct random searches, you know...

    There should be no embarrasment if it were a normal thing for police to do to anyone.
     
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    The way I see it, this is a domino effect. It starts with guns, then it moves on to the other liberties that the US troops are fighting to defend. I am sick of the government going on a power trip all the time, and making our lives more difficult.

    Taking away guns will only increase the crime rate. When it is illegal, people want it more. That is common sense. Wake up. Look at all of the people who say things like, "You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold dead fingers!" they are angry, and when a lot of people are angry about the same thing, and I mean very angry, they tend to get in groups and riot. After they quell the rioting, then they will have to do a sweep of the country and find everyone who has whatever gun they are illegalizing and try and take it. If someone resists, they will arrest them (possibly after a short gun fight). It will help no one, just fill up the prisons with innocent, hard working people, while the real criminals with the guns that are illegal now are running around out-gunning the police and committing these crimes that they are trying to stop.

    Scarf said:
    I imagine a drive-by stabbing would be very difficult.

    And people support gun control not because it will make violent crime disappear (no one is that naive), but because it will reduce the number of victims. You can run away from someone with a knife.
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    Honestly, I know more people who were stabbed than I know who were shot. And it is much harder to run from a knife than a gun. Because you have to AIM a gun. With a knife, you can just randomly lash out at the person and cut them just about anywhere.
     
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    Extric said:
    But those criminals won't be carrying a knife. They're all ready breaking the law, one more for a superior weapon won't change things. Instead you now have someone who is overpowered against someone who is helpless which could change to equal grounds if a person is allowed to carry a gun of their own. Banning guns does not hurt the criminals, it hurts the prey and will only raise crime rates and increase the number of victims. Australia did a complete ban on guns and these are the results after only one year:

    * Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2%
    * Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6%
    * Australia-wide, armed-robberies are up 44% (yes, FORTY-FOUR PERCENT)
    * In the state of Victoria, homicides-with-firearms are up 300%
    * Figures over the previous 25 years show a steady decrease in homicides-with-firearms (changed dramatically in the past 12 months)
    * Figures over the previous 25 years show a steady decrease in armed-robbery-with-firearms (changed dramatically in the past 12 months)
    * There has been a dramatic increase in breakins-and-assaults-of- the-elderly
    * At the time of the ban, the Prime Minister said "self-defense is not a reason for owning a firearm"
    * From 1910 to present, homicides in Australia had averaged about 1.8-per-100,000 or lower, a safe society by any standard.
    * The ban has destroyed Australia's standings in some international sport shooting competitions
    * The membership of the Australian Sports Shooting Association has risen to 112,000, a 200% increase, in response to the ban and as an attempt to organize against further controls, which are expected.
    * Australian politicians are on the spot and at a loss to explain how no improvement in "safety" has been observed after such monumental effort and expense was successfully expended in "ridding society of guns". Their response has been to "wait longer".
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    These data are pretty narrow. The one year window fails to mention that the assault rate had been steadily climbing for years before the gun ban and continued for some years after until leveling off. The year of the ban (1996) was the year of a rather shocking killing spree and for the rest of that year the rates of violent crimes were much lower that would have been expected based on previous years' trends so claiming that such-and-such rates increased dramatically that year ignore the unusually low crime rate that year AND fail to see that the overall gun murder rate has continued to fall since.

    Armed robberies did increase after the ban, then they decreased, then increased again, then decreased more and are currently at a more or less constant rate for the past several years at a very slightly higher rate than in '96. This ought to prove that there are many factors in crime rates more than anything. Burglaries are about 50% as common today as they were in '96.

    Finally, gun homicides have, on the whole, been decreasing in Australia for the last 20 years. 1997 was the only post-pan year in which the gun homicide rate was higher than in '96. The murder rate (of all kinds of murder) remains low and stable.

    (I'd like to post a link where I got my data but I can't seem to do that so I will point you to a website called gunsandcrime dot org)
     
    I think the problem runs much deeper than what is obvious, and out right banning guns will not by itself lower crime rates because it is true that there will still be criminals who can get a hold of guns. But the real problem is that because guns are so easy to access, people who might not have been criminals become criminals.

    If you want self defense, carry a tazer. But of course, a tazer is not as cool as a gun, is it?

    If anyone can find the statistic, how many homicides are actually stopped because the victim was carrying a gun? Also, what percent of first world countries, listed here, outlaw guns, and what are their gun-related crime statistics? You can't predict the future without knowing the past.

    Also, I don't think this issue is really appropriate to compare with prohibition, etc., because guns aren't addictive. Ban guns, legalize weed.
     
    I am done. Discuss it all you want.
    Oh, I have forgotten how to edit the poll. Help?
     
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