What is your opinions about the Gun Laws in America?

To be honest, i have no fear that someone breaks i to my house who wants to hurt us… This wont happen in germany. We dont have to be afraid to get murdered^^

Its the last thing that would come in my mind, that someone could kill me.

No Weapons - no fear!

How are those Syrian refugees treatin Ya?

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By the way? The German Israelis felt the same way in the '30s

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@TieDyeTim

If your wife owns guns, so do you.

Not true. They are hers. They are registered in her name and I have no access to them. They are secured in a locked safe. If I wanted a firearm, I would buy one, but I don’t. I am not of the opinion that guns are harmful. It takes a person to pull a trigger. Personal responsibility is very much on the decline in the US. I could write several pages on what is wrong with our country from lack of parenting, to the removal of certain aspects of morality in the education system to the glorification of violence on the television and in movies to overworked underpaid parents who use the TV as a babysitter because the lack of income makes it impossible for one parent to stay at home full time to raise kids right. The decline of civility and western civilization as a whole is real and tragic.

But again… This was a radical Islamist.

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Guns were designed to murder people. End of story. USA’s laws are ridiculous, I don’t care if other countries have more guns and less deaths or whatever - if it keeps happening then the NRA needs to be told whats what.

I had some more violent expressions for what needs to be done with the NRA but that wouldn’t really suit the point…

I’m not going to get into this discussion, literally muting this whole thing right now, but that’s my opinion and I’ll stand by it.

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She may be the registered owner, but everything is considered jointly owned in a marriage.

I agree with your opinion that it’s down to personal responsibility. The US is a culture of fads, everyone copying what is “in”. With mass shootings being so heavily covered by the media, people think that it is a way to get their message heard.

Also, it isn’t only radical Islamists that commit mass shootings. What is worse are emo, mostly Caucasian kids and young adults who shoot up schools. Radical Islamists at least, usually not always, target the military.

One of the biggest problems currently is that there is a legislative ban on research into the effects of gun violence. No, really. It’s a lobbying effort by - you guessed it - the National Rifle Association, which, if you’re not from here and aren’t aware, is the biggest national pro-gun group there is, and they have their hands into anything related to guns. They spend millions each year influencing government decisions concerning gun laws. And, for the past couple of decades, they have actively prevented any new research on anything involving guns, including safety, mental health requirements, etc.

Also, in my opinion, there is a large problem concerning the Second Amendment, which grants the “right to bear arms.” The problem being that this has not been changed in any way since the Amendments were written, which is about ten years after the Constitution, if I remember by civics class right. In those intervening two hundred plus years, everything about our society and culture has changed dramatically, but the Amendment has stayed the same. It talks about a “well-ordered militia,” for goodness’ sake. Back then, a citizen’s militia would have been reasonable, in order to make sure that the government did not overstep and impinge on citizens’ rights. Now, do you think that a few rifles, even a few automatics, are going to help you against the full military?

I’m not sure how I would change the Amendment, but given what is going on today, I do think there should be some revision to be considered. But alas, since we have slipped into an oligarchy and have allowed ourselves to continue to believe in the well-placed illusion that we are still a democracy, not much will change, I fear…

I’ll keep it short.

No gun law has ever saved a life. People able to use guns to defend themselves have.

It’s becoming clear the attack in Orlando was a terrorist attack. May the victims rest in peace. May the perpetrator burn in Hell.

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Ah, modern democracy…

http://vote-odin.beforeitsnews.com/libertarian/2013/12/vote-odin-2541344.html

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Yeah because privately owning a gun would have helped them to fend of a fascist regime with hundreds of thousands of soldiers and their entire war machinery…

Speaking as a gun owner (but not a gun enthusiast) who lives in Anerica, I’d just like to point out that most gun murders take place in locales with restrictive gun laws, for example Chicago, DC, and gun free zones. In fact, that last category accounts for pretty much all the mass shootings that made the news in recent years. Meanwhile, places with high gun ownership rates (rural areas, particularly in the south and west) tend to have not only lower gun crime rates, but lower overall crime rates. Lots of things contribute to crime rates, and if you’re interested in prevent crime generally rather than JUST gun crime, you need to look at a much broader array of data than just mass shootings.

As to the Hitler vs. armed Jews question, it is worth noting that Hitler had guns in Germany registered before he went full on tyrannical. It only stands to reason that a would-be dictator would want to A) know where all the guns were, and B) confiscate them before attempting a take-over. Otherwise he has to think twice, and while an armed population MIGHT not stop the dictator’s army, an unarmed populace CERTAINLY won’t.

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I’m kind of confused because as usual most of the things being said here are by people not from the United States or they are just making blind accusations. (TaliaParks) The person in question that committed the crime was a security guard that passed several background checks and was approved to carry a gun on the job. So if he was approved for that, he obviously was most likely approved for the purchasing of any gun. You can’t keep everyone 100% safe 100% of the time. The world we live in now is full of terror. Think about what you are asking; Someone who has never committed a crime and has no history of mental issues, will get approved for a gun no questions asked. That is hard to prevent. There are several measures that could be done, but nothing will stop it. Wishful thinking there folks. As long as the world has existed, peace hasn’t existed. Just continue being a positive influence, be good to one another, and pray for the safety of all.

edit: Also it isn’t fair to group all problems into one problem. They are separate. You have terrorism, mental health issues, bullying. Tons of factors. You cannot get to the heart of any of those issues. None. You can help, but you can’t make it all go away.

To take a quote from the Warcraft movie that just came out:
“From Light comes Darkness and from Darkness come Light.”

Whatever you believe in…Both good and evil exists in this world. You can’t have one without the other, but here’s to trying. Cheers.

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You mentioned bullying as an excuse? Proof right there society is going downhill.

“Bullying” was 100x worse in the old days and there were a hell of a lot less atrocious crimes commited. One root problem is we have a whole generation raised on “you can do anything you put your mind to” and “everyone’s opinions are equal/valid”

You raise children on lies, you get disenfranchisement at this magnitude.

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Society by and large is not going down hill,everything just gets overblown by media and how easily information can get to everyone compaired to even 15-20 years ago.There are just much more people than there used to be,when my father was born there were only 2 and a half billion people on earth! :slight_smile:

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The Gun laws in the Weimar Republic were arguable more strict than the ones of the Nazi regime. While the Nazi Regime did in fact disarm certain groups like the German Jews, the German Jews weren’t well armed to begin with and could not have successfully resisted with what they had before the disarming took place.
Gun Laws for the wide and general public were actually loosened under the Nazi Regime.
The whole "with everyone armed Hitler might have been stopped" theory is a fallacy often used to argue pro guns.

@Gouki: Sorry, where’s the fallacy in my statement?

I can’t believe you have that attitude. As someone pointed out, “in your days” there weren’t social media outlets like there is now. “Back in the day” you might’ve been bullied by a few people or classmates, but now you can be bullied by the whole school or whole world. That feeling sir, you couldn’t possibly know how that feels. We are talking about teenagers. How could anyone deal with that? Part of “correct” gun laws would also help prevent numerous suicides.

I grew up on the coast, where guns were rare/unheard of. I live in a rural area now, where guns are common. Mostly hunters, and hunting culture is big where I live. People drive around with stickers of bucks on their pickup trucks, that sort of thing.

I hear gunshots all the time. It’s mostly just gun nuts firing their guns at trees or deer but it still terrifies me. I’m careful when I walk outside, even on my own property.

During hunting season, all these goons build really elaborate hunting blinds and then they spend the day getting drunk together, waiting to see a deer. Then they shoot drunk and drive drunk and basically, I don’t leave my house much in October.

I know that a lot of people think this is the “healthy” part of gun culture, the aspect that needs to be defended, but I find it horrifying.

I’d take every gun from every American citizen if I could, and I’d start with the hunters.

In the assumption that the Nazis disarmed the general public or introduced more strict gun laws, when they in fact loosened gun laws compared to the Weimar Republic.
Only ethnic minorities were disarmed. So an “armed population” posed no hindrance to the overtake that took place and it is idiotic to think nowadays it would make a difference.