[quote]You are talking about Serial Killers. They are a rarity. The chances of you being attacked in your home by someone like that is very low. Its like getting killed by a plane in the middle of a desert. Its very rare for them to flat out attack a home owner in the middle of the night. Thats more like a movie than real life. It does happen. But those types of people are usually loners, and they pick some type of weak, defenseless targets. Like prostitutes, or women who walk in the middle of the night. You don't sound like a defenseless person. And even if you didn't have a gun. I doubt that they would know. They would probably assume you had one, and find easier pray. Yes possibly some areas should allow gun ownership. But bigger cities and high traffic areas should have strickter laws for buying a gun. Right now all you need to buy a gun is to fill out some background check form, and only 1% of people get denied. And if you don't want to do a background check, you can buy a gun from a gun show. This is all documented to be true. I checked with articles written in 2015 by CNN.[/quote] So the women who are walking alone at night should not be able to protect themselves? You're a -blam!-ing idiot dude.

A woman needs to ask herself what she is doing walking in the middle of the night in a dark secluded area in the first place, possibly she should avoid those areas

CNN? I'm SPENT lol

So you think it's ok then that someone can just get a gun without any background check?

Absolutely not. I can agree with you in that matter. In fact, I think the background check should be at least 5x more extensive if it were possible. When I bought my first gun, I was young and simply just wanted to do it because I could (weren't we all stupid kids at one point haha). I went to the store thinking I was gonna be there for like an hour waiting to get it because of the background checks the dealer has to run. It took longer to choose what I wanted than it had to actually run the check. At the time, I didn't think anything of it, but now I look back on it and think how stupid it was. I know how stupid I was, but it was more wrong that they only look to make sure you haven't committed a felony. That is by no means good criteria in which to purchase a gun. In my opinion, and you may disagree, I think that anyone who buys a gun needs to have been in the military, worked as a civil authority, or has taken a state or federal accredited instructed course on how to handle firearms. They also should be put through a few month class about use of force if they weren't trained in self defense. It astounds me that a student can spend years studying topics as trivial as gym class, but when it comes to selling firearms, they'd prefer to just hand them out in 15 min without a question as to why you are buying it or if you even know how to use it. This may be the part you agree with. However, I value knowledge, so I know how important it is to familiarize myself with what's best to defend myself in a worst case scenario should it happen.

So then you basically agree with the article then in essence, Ya I mean. What if for example. The person that is trying to get a gun has not committed any crime, but wants to buy a gun so they could commit one in the future. Should there not be some other type of checkup. Like checking their mental health, possibly their history. Etc. Seeing if they had any non violent crimes, or even small things like being violent. Etc.

That phsychological evaluation goes hand in hand with training. I remember when I joined the military they ran physicals and psyche evaluations 6 months before I had joined and a day before I had joined. They took day-long background checks with finger print scanners. Basically the whole nine yards. Why can't a similar process be geared towards gun ownership? And in regards to the article, or post, I don't think what the op posted is an agreeable topic. He simply said that "if you are a gun owner, you have my respect". Why should the fact that you own a gun earn you respect? No, I don't agree with what he said. He respects me because I spent way more than I wanted to on things I don't even want. I didn't really want guns, but I have them because it makes me feel safe, so I'm not helpless should something happen. And I know you are going to run the chances of that happining through your head. The fact that it CAN happen is reason enough for me to have one. What your view comes down to in the end is that nobody should have guns. But they exist either way. People will find a way to get their hands on one through illegal means also. We can't just not sell sell them and expect the world to become less violent. There will still be killings, whether we have them or not. Plenty of other countries exhibit that fact.