Supreme Court Finally Stands Up For Gun Owners Options

[alltracman78]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080626/ap_on_..._co/scotus_guns

Nice to see

[alltracman78]

How many of those crimes are committed with illegal guns?
Got any statistics on that?

ok here you go... http://www.neahin.org/programs/schoolsafet...ics.htm#america

So, most crimes are committed with illegal guns?
Not really a surprise, which makes me wonder why those of us that have LEGAL guns receive so much flak...
In addition to that, going by the statistics you provided the problem isn't the gun laws, it's lack of reinforcement.
Why then are you [collective] pushing for new laws and not pushing for enforcement of the current ones?

Here's some more statistics about kids and guns.
From http://www.keepandbeararms.com/Information...Item.asp?ID=563

"The study was conducted from 1993-1995 by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Child psychologists tracked 4,000 boys and girls aged 6 to 15 in Denver, Pittsburgh, and Rochester, N.Y. Their findings?

-- Children who get guns from their parents don't commit gun crimes (0 percent) while children who get guns illegally are quite likely to do so (21 percent).

-- Children who get guns from parents are less likely to commit any kind of street crime (14 percent) than children who have no gun in the house (24 percent) -- and are dramatically less likely to do so than children who acquire an illegal gun (74 percent.)

"Give that weak victim a gun AND THE TRAINING TO KNOWLEDGEABLY USE IT and it will even out the playing field. " or totally ban hand gun so nobody carries them even the thugs and burglars.

So, the fact that criminals prefer illegal guns means nothing.

"I do have a very big problem with other people telling me I can't own a gun because someone else is too dangerous to own one." Im not saying you can't own a gun just cause some are too irresponsible and don't know how, when and where to use it but it's like you're saying I do have a very big problem with other people telling me I can't drink and drive (though I'm so responsible and 100% guaranteed will not be involved in am accident) because someone else is too dangerous to drink and drive.

So by that logic, no one should own cars because some people are too dangerous to drive, no one can serve in the military or police because some aren't fit, no one can be a teacher because some aren't fit, etc, etc.

Alcohol impairs your control and judgment, period. Some more than others, but anyone that consumes alcohol is effected.
Anyone that owns a gun isn't guaranteed to attempt to use it in a crime. The majority of gun owners never will.

Violent crimes don't get solved or prevented using violent weapons. A wrong thing cannot be corrected by another wrong doing.

So, if I pull a .45 on a burglar breaking into my house [we don't know why, could be to steal my things, to rape my wife/daughter, to kill me, intentionally or not], that's not going to stop him?
And if he has a gun, what's to say he didn't intend to use it in the first place? If I get the drop on him, he doesn't have much chance to use it.
Sounds a lot like prevention to me.

And, since when is self defense "wrong doing"? In case you hadn't noticed, no one is advocating armed vigilante groups that hunt down "bad guys". No one is advocating we hunt down someone that committed a crime against us and shoot them. We are SPECIFICALLY talking about preventing harm to us and our families. How exactly is that "wrong doing"?

hand guns are not solutions for accidents or crime. Got it? again, 2 wrongs don't make it right.

Again, see my last reply.