Guns, Are they necessary? Options

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So besides guns being allowed in the military, do you think guns should be allowed into regular peoples hand even if they have a license or a permit for it?

Many countries that are expected to surpass the US in a couple years do not allow guns, they only allow it for strict military reasons and defense reasons. Should US adopt this too?

Opinions welcome, Cussing someone out and bashing isnt :]

[Stuckie]

Remember in school, when the teacher was talking about a time in our history called the Revolutionary War. If you dont, it was basically about a bunch of citizens taking up arms, and fighting what they perceived to be a tyranical government, known as Great Britain. Now, these bunch of citizens do not have a professional military, so what the do is use their own firearms and fight the British when ever they needed to. History has deemed these brave citizens as Minutemen. The name came about from the fact that they were ready to fight at any given time. If it weren't for these minutemen, we would be having tea time at noon while eating a scone; having a jolly ol' time.

Now lets say our current government does things that we as citizens do not approve of, or perceive as tyranical, we have firearms in which to defend our rights as a free nation. Taking away our weapons is taking away the second amendment, which was one of the first rights that our forefather fought to give us.

Sorry about the grammar and spelling. Gotta make it to chow.

[Uronacid]

Remember in school, when the teacher was talking about a time in our history called the Revolutionary War. If you dont, it was basically about a bunch of citizens taking up arms, and fighting what they perceived to be a tyranical government, known as Great Britain. Now, these bunch of citizens do not have a professional military, so what the do is use their own firearms and fight the British when ever they needed to. History has deemed these brave citizens as Minutemen. The name came about from the fact that they were ready to fight at any given time. If it weren't for these minutemen, we would be having tea time at noon while eating a scone; having a jolly ol' time.

Now lets say our current government does things that we as citizens do not approve of, or perceive as tyranical, we have firearms in which to defend our rights as a free nation. Taking away our weapons is taking away the second amendment, which was one of the first rights that our forefather fought to give us.

Sorry about the grammar and spelling. Gotta make it to chow.

I completely agree with this. We cannot loose our firearms.

I dont think guns are necessary for the public to have. I live in Texas where virtually everyone has guns. Im personally sick of reading the headlines where a housewife was pmsin and shot the mail man, ups guy, plumer, cable guy... thinking he was some wierd perv that was breaking in or something. Situations get out of control quickly and fire arms just add to the consequences. Though, i guess she could of just as easily stabbed him, in which case nothing i have said even matters.

A gun is a tool, and just like any tool can be used for good or bad. Just because some retard kills someone with his gun doesn't mean I should loose the right to own one. Joe could have killed with a wrench, knife, etc... he wanted to kill and guns didn't make him do it. You're right, if someone is out to kill they're going to kill regardless of guns being available or not.