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It is written in the U.S. constitution that all have rights to bear arms, so why can’t this be changed? Sure, the founding fathers had some great ideas, but they lived in a different time. Isn’t it time for change? Isn’t it possible to adapt as times change? Whether you are leading a nation or a religion, you cannot live by rules and guidelines set 200 years ago just as much as you can’t by rules or guidelines set 2000 years ago. Times change!
If people have a hobby with guns, that is fine, but why can’t the gun clubs hold the guns with the paper targets, rather than letting people take their guns home? Why are people allowed handguns? Why are people allowed assault rifiles? Surely the only reason for that type of gun (outside a gun club where you’re shooting paper targets) is to shoot people? The only people I can understand having guns are perhaps farmers, rangers or other workers who have to control (at times) dangerous animals.
Today, over twenty people were killed at a college in Virginia. Is it time for a change? Is it time to make finding a gun more difficult? A person who goes crazy with a knife could cause plenty of damage, but they could be overpowered… It is very hard to overpower a bullet.
Well said! But do you think the US gun laws could be made as tight as the UK, as you know it has happened here too – Dunblane, Hungerford for example (where the latter gunman’s firearms were actually licenced to him)? However, less guns restriction of the most lethal calibre means lower probability in my book.
If nobody was allowed to take their “hobby gun” out of the gun club, it would vastly reduce numbers of guns on the street (in the UK, also).
The only people you’d have to look out for then, would be those with illegal weapons and those who run gun clubs. ;)