Originally Posted by Lord Larehip

Rez, the majority of people who are murdered in this country are murdered by guns and majority of people who are murdered KNEW the person who murdered them.
Well no kidding, how many people go around just shooting random people...not many. Even robberies are usually done by people you have seen or met before.

EconomicPolicyJournal.com: How People Are Murdered in the United States

Saying it hasn't happened to you or anyone you know is irrelevant to the point I am making which is:

The odds are much greater that you will kill or be killed with a gun in your house than that you will kill an intruder with that gun.

Irrelevant??? Why should I be punished by not being allowed to have a gun I have trained with just because some other moron doesnt know what he is doing?

I only want to ban assault weapons. And I think handguns need to be more rigidly controlled (and, yes, some need to be banned). Hunting rifles and shotguns I have no real beef with. You can't enforce a law that doesn't exist. And you can't punish someone who guns down a bunch of innocent people with an assault weapon and then shoots himself. All that happens is some other unbalanced idiot wants to do the same thing.

The only thing I would compromise on would be making the standards for getting these guns higher. For instance if you are to own any firearm you should have to show some proficiency or do a class involving actual shooting and saftey measures. Some places do that for a CCW permet but not for simply owning the gun. i would not be totally against that, it would weed out alot of the stupid people who legally own guns but dont know anything about them.

Felony against whom? Take Sandy Hook. They were his mother's guns and he killed her and himself. So who gets punished? Wouldn't it have been better if nobody could have an AR-15? Sure, there still would have been a tragedy but not of this magnitude.

First off mass shootings and people who hate society will always exist and always have, banning anything will not stop that. Every "sandy hook" has been in a gun free zone. The killer knows he wont face any trouble so he has the confidence to march in and do what he pleases. What if certain adults with the proper training were allowed firearms in schools? It certainly could not hurt. not to mention the news makes these people famous overnight. What about the cases where CCW holders have stopped people that started going on rampages in many places throughout the US? They dont ever get mentioned, nd that happens quite often.

Besides that, Rez, you know they plead down all the time. Killers rarely get what they deserve because they are almost always allowed to plead down. It makes a mockery of the justice system.

I totally agree with that. People with marijuana convictions often get off easier than assault cases. It is absurd.