I usually don't care too much for the gun debate (which is ironic because I live in Connecticut), but it's disgusting how many of you don't realize that gun control does not mean that government is going to take away your guns.
Gun control is a broad term, and it means exactly what you'd think: the control of violent firearms. That includes laws such as limiting sales to criminals, banning the use of military equipment (i.e. tanks, rocket launchers, machine guns, etc.), or requiring the buyer to pass a gun safety test.
When you say you don't agree with gun control, you're literally telling me you believe that anyone can any kind of weapon (pro tip: not even freedom toting libertarians agree with that). There is a line where can gun control can safely allow the sale of guns to gun enthusiasts without allowing the sale to criminals and those who would do us harm.
Point is, learn the definition, because if you don't agree with some sort of gun control, you basically believe in anarchy.
Semi relevant lingering question: Thousands of people who live in cities are killed by guns each year (including hundreds of children), and the public makes a huge display of Newtown. I don't want to pull the race card, but someone please justify this.
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Because people like Senator Frankenstein in California actually want a ban on all weapons in the US. They can't get that so they ban and try to limit the access to any firearm they can. They still want a universal ban on all firearms though. I don't like gun control because it's still a limit on the second amendment. If there was a large push to limit the first amendment in order to make it illegal to offend people, would you support it? I mean, it makes people feel nice and safe and it's not a ban on speaking. Dumping my lolGun Control folder: http://imgur.com/a/JBwxT [quote]Thousands of people who live in cities are killed by guns each year (including hundreds of children), and the public makes a huge display of Newtown. I don't want to pull the race card, but someone please justify this.[/quote]Because the media tells them to make a huge display of Newtown. The government doesn't actually care about what happened there, but they see it as a way to scare people into thinking that "this could happen where you live, this could be your children". It's all to scare people into thinking that guns are super scary things that have no place at all in our world. Look at the CSGV, they use the deaths of people who died because of firearms and they use them for their own agenda, they don't give two shits about any other victim because they can't use them for their own goals. [quote]Point is, learn the definition, because if you don't agree with some sort of gun control, you basically believe in anarchy.[/quote]lel no. Please, learn the definition of Anarchy before trying to use it against people. Saying that the government shouldn't have any intrusion into what firearms we should have access to is not the same as saying that there should be no government. Don't go throwing red herrings into the mix.