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Gun Laws; Yay or Nay?
In my state, it is now legal for guns to be brought to churches, school, and bars. Yes, bars, so long as you have a permit. Do you think this is wise? What's stopping teachers from holding a gun to a student's head, other than the fact that they'll be jailed.. But I think these new laws are opening up so much more controversies than nescessary, and I think more crimes could easily be commited this way.
What was stopping someone from bringing a gun into churches, school, and bars before this new law was made? What is stopping unlicensed people now? A teacher could have held a gun to a kids head before this.
What was stopping someone from bringing a gun into churches, school, and bars before this new law was made?
The laws that made it illegal to bring a gun into churches, schools, and bars.
What is stopping unlicensed people now?
The laws that make it illegal to bring a gun into churches, schools, and bars without a license.
A teacher could have held a gun to a kids head before this.
If they only brought a gun to work on the day they planned to hold it to a kid's head, yes. But if they had brought a gun to work every day just for funsies, they would have been caught before it got to that point.
Adding a law to prevent guns in schools is only adding another possible jail term. Being jailed is the only option the law is using.
If they only brought a gun to work on the day they planned to hold it to a kid's head, yes. But if they had brought a gun to work every day just for funsies, they would have been caught before it got to that point.
Except that schools don't actually screen people for guns. If the school were screening people for guns when they showed up they would actually be preventing someone from bringing their gun for funsies.
People do crazy things after doing some crazy activities such as getting intoxicated. If a person carrying a gun snaps at some point, it will be very risky to the people around him or her. Carrying a gun should be prohibited.
Gun safety? Taught by who? The police? The same ones who have more weapon "accidents" than anyone. They are not fit to instruct anyone, considering what type of cops they are putting on the street. Weapon safety needs to be taught either federally or by certain branches of the military. Our law enforcement are not compitent enough.
An anti-gun website has tallied 636 killings by concealed carry permit holders since May 2007... But there are about 16,000 murder per uear in the US. So you are talking about 0.56% o murders when you are worrying about convealed carry permit holders. Even the police chief of DETROIT is for concealed carry rights.
For myself, the fact I can't bring a gun to where i spend most of my time is the main reason I don't get one. I think, instead of banning concealed carry in bars, they should make laws against carrying while intoxicated... Which should be good ANYWHERE, not just bars
What about to start with restricting what is not needed for self defence? Assault Rifles, Automatic weapons, silencer, special ammo, large calibres, large magazines?
To you "Yay-ers", these gun laws will only leave the population without defense. If criminals want guns, they will get them. Nothing you can do can stop them. That is why the criminal enterprise in this country is so good at it's job. Very resourceful.
Yes, you are a murderer. Just like us veterans. But it was you or him/her, and you made the call. Now it is up to your peers to decide if your choice to kill someone had merit. Right or wrong, you are still a murderer. It's time we stop being afraid of words.
I'm not a murderer. I have never even killed anyone. What a load of crap, honey child. I have no prob with vets cuz I support our troops, now go smoke a doobie and chillax.
Its highly unlikely that's ever going to happen to you anyway. Nobody I know carries a gun and they have all managed not to get stabbed, robbed, raped or beaten up.
The US has a minority population, that through decades of poisonous cultural influences, is today responsible for half of our murders. They commit murder at 8 times the rate of whites. Im not saying there is anything wrong black people. But if you take black urban sub culture out of the equation we are not that bad.. The black community is shooting themselves in the foot and everyone is afraid to confront it and be labeled an Uncle Tom or a racist. It is the culture of death that needs to stop, not the culture of guns.
I completely agree. There is nothing wrong with black people. But I don't think you can blame poverty, education, or even underground racism.
I think there are three causes.
1) History of oppression. The arab slave trade, Atlantic slave trade, jim crow, the KKK etc. It would build up anger in me if pretty much every point in history you look at black people are being oppressed. Saudi Arabia still had a legal slave trade in the 1960's. While I could argue the US was one of the worst offenders, and you can never prove that the spirit of oppression is gone
2) I think that is mainly because of article 2 of the civil rights act of 1964. Which is the one that says businesses can not deny services base on race. So one day the racists are out in the open, the next day you don't know who is who. One day you know to say "well screw those guys with their whites only sign, I'll go somewhere else." The next day you are saying, "Is our good taking so long because we are black?"
3) Backwards cultural influences. If you want to start looking into conspiracies start pondering how black people went from Jazz to Rap in one generation. Start pondering why year after year there is a new crop of young black men who are convinced they can't be engineers or doctors or lawyers. I overheard a conversation between a black male student and a black female engineering student. Because the engineering classes were mostly whites and asians the black male said "See that's for white people, I couldn't do that..." I know its not my place to be trying to solve the problems of the black community but WTF.
Yeah right, thats just the artists selling out and staying sold out, any of those artists can drop off from hollywood and sing about better shit, but they would have no fame, so its the artists fault for not having the willpower to break off
I understand what you are saying but who is deciding to stay on board? The artists themselves.
"They have to or else they won't make a living"
Underground artists stay alive just as well. Maybe not as luxurious, but they are alive, breathing, with food in their stomachs. Not much more you can ask for...
The one and only reason the "artist" went down that path in the first place was because from the time he was born images were burned in his head of black men in expensive cloths, nice cars, and lots of women, all by being the best thug he can be. Who pushed that image in the first place? Who is responsible for taking down a picture of Rev. Martin Luther King and putting up a picture of Snoop Dog and saying "now this is what it means to be a black man, this is what you have to do to find success and right the wrongs in the world."???
I hate hollywood and what they do, they're evil, but saying what you're saying is the same as me saying the military is responsible for every single person's personal choice to join, because of all the commercials, and the "I want you's" and the "Kill the terrorists dont let them win"
Why havent i been affected by that? I have grown up all around it but have made the personal choice not to be affected by the propaganda, i WANT to join, just to learn certain skill sets, but thats for another topic...
