Obama Pushes Anti-Gun Treaty

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Meninjamatt (4) - Do you know that the US government in the persona of BATFE defines an assault rifle as a machine gun, a weapon that can spray a continuous stream of bullets as long as the trigger is depressed? Do you know that machine guns have been restricted from even law abiding citizens since 1934? Do the criminals have these maching guns? Yes and at the risk of sounding trite, if you are going to let the criminals have them, I want one too. Continued

Meninjamatt (5) - I have had a concealed carry permit and have carried for 25 years. I have had several close calls but have never HAD to pull my pistol. I pray that I never do. But I choose to not be a victim nor will I allow my family to be victims. Do you know the rule prohibiting our armed forces from having their guns with them on post? One armed individual would have stopped the death toll at Fort Hood at 1 or 2, not 13. I hope you now believe I have something intelligent to say.

Sorry about that "unintelligent" assumption, I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to guns (guess it depends on where you're from), but it's like whenever I watch the national news there's some sort of gun related crime, and that's what makes me hate guns (when I think of "guns" i think of murder - I don't see it as saving people's lives.) but when you mentioned that incident, made me think about the positive side of guns (the saving lives part) and I thank you for that new perspective.

I am an NRA Certified Rifle Instructor. A few years I was running a BB gun range for our Cub Scout Day Camp. On parents day one young mom expressed concern on her son shooting a dangerous weapon. I laid a gun on the divider and asked the 8 year old Scouts how long woul it take for the gun to hurt someone. Finally one Cub said, "Mr. Tim, if no one touches it, it will never hurt anyone." continued

Americans use guns in self-defense 2.5 million times a year according to statistics. Nearly all gun violence happens in big cities and is gang or drug related. The safest state in the US is Vermont, which has the most liberal gun laws. DC has the strictest gun laws, and also the highest homicide rate. People like you with knee-jerk reactions and ignorant judgments are the problem, thank God only about 10% of the country agrees with you.

Hey man, I know I'm ignorant about guns - I'm only a high school student that lives in a < 100,000 populated community. Did you take the time to read all the comments btw?

"DC has the strictest gun laws, and also the highest homicide rate." haha funny, I don't see the correlation here, I don't think people kill there because there is strict gun laws but more because there are a lot of gangs there (maybe the the laws are strict there because of all the gang violence?)

My point is the strict laws have not made a difference, but in fact the homicide rate their continues to rise while the rest of the country's decline. 2008 was a 50 year low on homicide and violent crime, yet the gun laws are much more lenient now than back then. Disarming normal citizens give the bad guys the upper hand. Do some research on the UK and what happened after banning hand guns in 1997. Most gun control is racist in nature, and targets minorities in this country.

I was informed about the UK banning incident from one of the comments. Also I changed my point of view because of all those comments you see replied to me (so your comments aren't really necessary). Btw I was not talking about the laws on that comment I was talking about guns in general (I don't care about that legal stuff yet - didn't even watch the video haha)