2013-05-01, 02:48 PM
CrazyForDex Wrote:People who are pro-guns keep make excuses for why we do not need more regulations or background checks for guns. I keep hearing things like: "This is all just an excuse to unarm the U.S. citizenry so the federal government can opress us" and "guns aren't harming people, it is stupid people with guns harming people."Just looking at the comments in the link, some people are saying that giving children guns at the age of 5 "teaches them about gun safety".
While there may be some truth to the second argument, guns are clearly too abundant in this country and at the very least, people are using them way to irresponsibly.
Also the NRA has a ton of pull in Congress, which makes it nigh impossible to get regulations passed.
How the hell does that work? give an armed and extremely dangerous weapon to a child with an active imagination and no self control, who can barely even think for themselves. If they HAVE to give their children guns they should at least wait until their child is old enough to understand before giving them such a powerful responsibility. A child shouldn't need to protect themselves, the parents should do that until the child is old enough to look after themselves.
the backwards dippomegranate mentality of some people just irritates me. People like this shouldn't be allowed to breed, never mind buy guns.
Also there is a difference between children knowing about guns and actually giving one to a child.