Should The USA Change it's gun laws?
The USA has one of the worst Gun Laws in the Planet. How the hell does military guns reach common people. We need to make our gun Laws similar to Japan's.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a startling revelation for 2015. It is projected that deaths from guns will surpass deaths from car fatalities in 2015. An estimated 33,000 Americans will lose their lives from guns as opposed to an estimated 32,000 Americans who will die in car accidents. The gun violence in America is an American Shame! Side: Yes
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This just shows a complete lack of factual accuracy. Citizens cannot buy "machine guns" which are large caliber automatic rifles. They can buy small caliber semi-automatic and larger caliber semi-automatic rifles, commonly called "assault rifles" and "hunting rifles," but neither of those are "machine guns" in any meaningful sense. Further, lets say we eliminated not just all assault weapons, but tall rifles. Lets even stipulate that the banning of these weapons would be effective (how well has that worked out for marijuana or alcohol?). You realize that these weapons are rarely used in crimes right? That on the order of 10 to 1, these weapons are used to prevent crime. http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp Side: No
Japan also has one of the highest suicide rates... and the Yakuza is one of the most infamous gangs in history. Killing someone is about the worst crime someone can commit. Will making firearm possession illegal be a big deal to a person who is planning on killing someone? Think of the prohibition. Alcohol was illegal, but people were still drinking it! Marijuana is illegal throughout most of the States... but people still smoke it! They'll find a way to obtain guns, legal or not. Side: No
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NO!!!! Gun laws are perfectly fine as is. Besides, these laws are protected by default under our Constitution's 2nd Amendment: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Guns are just inanimate objects. People kill people…guns don’t kill people. If killers and mass murderers didn’t have guns, they would easily find another inanimate object to kill with. Lets focus on fixing the root of America's core problems: the mental health crisis, stop letting prisoners out of prison, stronger parental control over their children playing violent video games and TV, fixing our broken judicial system, and the list goes on and on. Besides…even if all guns were confiscated by the government, tens of thousands of illegal guns will still be easily attainable via the black market and the cartels. Side: No
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As I said in dispute and as another poster already mentioned, this is a non-factual argument. In the U.S., firearms are far, far more commonly used to prevent crime than to commit it. Even if we stipulate that prohibition works (historically it hasn't) that only means you are enabling the strong vs the weak. Is that the society we want to live in? Where a woman can't own a firearm to stop a rapist? http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp Side: No
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