Guns for Everyone !

[REDemption]

After hearing about the shooting this morning, I began a pretty good debate at work with the following question:

If every person in the United States over the age of 18 was issued a gun, would the gun related crime rate go up or down ?

 

It's obviously an extreme example, but I think that if this were to happen that the gun related crime rate would go down.

[James]

After hearing about the shooting this morning, I began a pretty good debate at work with the following question:

If every person in the United States over the age of 18 was issued a gun, would the gun related crime rate go up or down ?

 

It's obviously an extreme example, but I think that if this were to happen that the gun related crime rate would go down.

Not so sure since I view most people as stupid. 

[Brandon]

My first inclination without much thought is it would go up. It's already a mixed bag now, but then you are adding everyone not capable of having a firearm like felons or mentally unstable indicviduals.

[James]

My first inclination without much thought is it would go up. It's already a mixed bag now, but then you are adding everyone not capable of having a firearm like felons or mentally unstable indicviduals.

You could have just said black people. 

[Brandon]

I'm trying to be more pc, coloreds

[Jay]

I was incorrect on "guess who started the thread," I guessed Funke

[Spirit]

There are bad people in the world.  So you can insert the name of any weapon into your question (gun, knife, banjo, etc) and inevitably those bad people will use those weapons for bad things.  

[arch stanton]

Crime rate might go down but gun deaths and injuries would be through the roof because nobody would think to issue any sense of personal responsibility or understanding of the purpose of gun ownership.

[mtangelsfan]

I am for the right to bear arms, but I do not own a gun.  I would not be comfortable with one.  I would likely make a mistake with one.

 

I would be dumb to suggest I should have one just as it would for me to suggest that someone who is sane and good with guns shouldn't own one.

[St1ck]

Might as well, since everyone has shoes, and guns are no more dangerous than that. 

[Ray McKigney]

Might as well, since everyone has shoes, and guns are no more dangerous than that. 

 

Yeah, it's not the guns, it's the bullets. 

[St1ck]

Also why put an age limit on it? I know I feel just as comfortable with my son playing with a loaded gun, as I would if he was playing with a loaded banjo. 

[Jay]

After hearing about the shooting this morning, I began a pretty good debate at work with the following question:

If every person in the United States over the age of 18 was issued a gun, would the gun related crime rate go up or down ?

 

It's obviously an extreme example, but I think that if this were to happen that the gun related crime rate would go down.

 

If you dumped 200 million guns into the population you might have fewer crimes but you'd have a lot more accidents.

[xboom28x]

Everyone has a gun in war, yet that doesn't stop anyone in a war from using them.

 

I think crime would go up.

[Spirit]

We really need to put proper laws in place.  

 

 

I think if we made it illegal to kill or hurt people we should be good. 

[Ray McKigney]

We really need to put proper laws in place.  

 

 

I think if we made it illegal to kill or hurt people we should be good. 

 

I don't think that would help much.

[Brandon]

Everyone has a gun in war, yet that doesn't stop anyone in a war from using them.

I think crime would go up.

haha.

well done.

[Spirit]

I don't think that would help much.

 

No, it would totally help.  It always does.   

 

Want less drug use?  Outlaw drugs.

 

Want less gun violence?  Put in more gun laws.

 

It's a very common sense approach. 

[mp170.6]

Probably would increase gun crime.

 

Social media has made people a LOT more impulsive in recent years.  Do it now, think later. 

[REDemption]

There are bad people in the world, but I also feel that there are a lot more good people. I definitely think that if more people were armed that the biggest shootings in recent years would have been avoided, or at the very least the body counts wouldn't be as high. The people that go out and commit these heinous acts do so with a good amount of confidence knowing that hardly anybody carries and they have at least as long as it takes first the first responders to arrive to accomplish what they want. Outside of that, I feel that crimes like armed robberies and the like would drop. I doubt that the people committing these crimes would be as quick to rush into a gas station if they were worried that the attendant and any number of patrons were packing. It's an effective deterrent. 

[Ray McKigney]

Most of the offenders worship the devil. 

[REDemption]

No, it would totally help.  It always does.   

 

Want less drug use?  Outlaw drugs.

 

Want less gun violence?  Put in more gun laws.

 

It's a very common sense approach. 

Ideally that would be the way to go but the huge majority of gun crimes aren't committed by people who obtain their guns legally, they're committed by people who get them from the drug dealer on the corner or by any other illegal means. Stricter gun laws won't affect them, they will only affect the law abiding citizens trying to get a gun.

[Tank]

i have no idea if crime would go up or down. won't even guess. but i will say that vigilantism will skyrocket. 

 

also, think about all the morons that get pissed off so easily when driving. you want to put a gun in their hands? or people like one of my family members who gets mad if the waitress doesn't bring him more salsa within ten seconds of asking for it. no thanks.

[katie]

Vegetarianism won't skyrocket

[katie]

Oh you said vigilantism