Ooookay.
Responsible gun owners are not the problem... its the 'gung-ho wannabes'.[1] Why does a person want to own a gun? Protection? or 'To kill the ******* that pisses me off'. the latter is a bad reason.[2] Do you reload your own bullets and add 1 more grain for Fun?[3] change the bullet heads for armour/piercing bullets?[4]
1. Because you're worried about the 'fanatics' you'll support denying guns to everyone? Get over your fear.
2. You really think people are going through the trouble and expense of getting guns to kill people who 'piss them off' when it's so easy to get an illegal firearm?
3. Reloading and customising ammunition is something *sport* shooters do, not gung-ho fanatics.
4. You can buy armour piercing bullets off the shelf, which shows what you know. However, anyone serious about self-defense carries JHP rounds, which are much more useful. Armour-piercing rounds cause minimal tissue damage, and in a defense situation you want to cause enough damage with as few shots as possible to drop the guy.
There are many valid reasons for owning a gun, but there are many that show the opposite - more gun owners are killed or injured by their own firearms.
Untrue, and disproven a thousand times over. The anti-gun lobby managed to get this into pop culture and collective wisdom back in the eighties, and it's stuck ever since.
Its 3 am, there are 4 armed people in your house taking your TV etc etc .. how will a gun help? There are 4 adrenaline charged and scared trigger happy theives against 1 cautious and nervous person who is afriad of doing the wrong thing.
A gun helps because the 'adrenaline charged and
scared trigger happy theives' aren't in this for gun battles... they're not going to take the chance of dying. Criminals run from gun users.
By Law you have to keep your gun in a safe - what point is that when you need it for protection!
It's a stupid law, designed around the 'wisdom' of the anti-gun groups... because of course if the gun is available you'll only get shot with it.
If you have kids in the house, make sure they don't have access to your firearm. It's a matter for good sense, not blanket legislation.
Yes, it does happen. if you have been drinking all night, get home in the wee hours of the morning - and then your sleep is disturbed an hour later. you cannot possible tell me that the person has got full control over his facilties.
You're not allowed to be in posession of a firearm while intoxicated anyway. Serious gun owners don't drink all night. It's a good way to get your gun confiscated and a serious jail sentence if you run into a roadblock. Also, if caught in this situation, you'll be judged unfit to own a firearm and be unable to own a gun for 5 years.
Its not the resonable guy that should be prevented from owning a gun... the fanatics are also getting guns.. thats what the law is trying to change, but using the wrong technique.
What 'fanatics'? Most people who want guns just want to protect themselves. However, because there is no definition of a 'fanatic', it's being used as an excuse for blanket refusals of licenses.
There was a case recently (within the last 2 years) where a father shot his daughter accidentally. He could not identify the silouette so he shot it. These kind of things are 100% avoidable.
And that was a stupid move, preventable by training, not by keeping others from having guns. Also, you're very vague, while there are any number of stories *this year* of burglars clearing out after a warning shot.
Okay, firstly, Americans are the most careless people in the world with guns. Secondly, most of those points cite nothing other than Kellerman... a flawed study which has been shot down again and again by intellectuals and gun groups alike. Actually, it's remarkable how the two groups overlap. Regardless, go and look around on a couple of good gun sites for studies on why guns are good. Start with
http://www.a-human-right.com/ and
http://www.gunfacts.info/
Why dont the Whiteys stand together and fight the problem in unison - instead of everyone for their own gun and shoot it if it moves mentality.
Why not attack the Criminals in a pro-active way... The one thing the criminal is afraid of is being seen play on those fears. Put up a 'WARNING - HIDDEN CCTV Camera' sign ..
How do we fight the problem without weapons? Oh, and by the way, it's not only the 'whiteys' problem. Don't try and deflect the argument with a cliche... 'shoot if it moves' works for zombie movies, but gun owners understand the concept of consequences, especially considering how much support criminals get from our legislature.
Criminals don't give a damn about being seen. Criminals are afraid of being *hurt*.