2016-06-14, 07:24 AM
Locking your home is a different scenario. The issue of locking or not locking your home isn't subject to the controversy and issue of ownership that guns are in. Locking your home is a safe, effortless way of making it harder for a burglar to get in.
Taking away EVERYONE's right to own guns even for those who are well-behaved and only use them for things like hobbies or just for the sake of collecting just to make it a little harder for terrorists to go on killing sprees, when it won't really STOP them from doing it when they REALLY want is an entirely different debate and issue compared to simply locking your house.
Should we take away everyone's porn to make it harder for rapists to have material that may or may not aggravate them to commit rape further?
Should we take away everyone's right to own knives because someone gets stabbed?
Locking your house an entirely different matter.
All in all, I support someone's right to own firearms and do not think removing that right will have any significant impact on killer psychopaths. This guy may have killed -less- people if he didn't have a readily available firearm, but the fact remains that he would have killed and injured a copious amount of people either way; it wasn't the guns that caused that.
Taking away EVERYONE's right to own guns even for those who are well-behaved and only use them for things like hobbies or just for the sake of collecting just to make it a little harder for terrorists to go on killing sprees, when it won't really STOP them from doing it when they REALLY want is an entirely different debate and issue compared to simply locking your house.
Should we take away everyone's porn to make it harder for rapists to have material that may or may not aggravate them to commit rape further?
Should we take away everyone's right to own knives because someone gets stabbed?
Locking your house an entirely different matter.
All in all, I support someone's right to own firearms and do not think removing that right will have any significant impact on killer psychopaths. This guy may have killed -less- people if he didn't have a readily available firearm, but the fact remains that he would have killed and injured a copious amount of people either way; it wasn't the guns that caused that.