Why Citizens Should Not Have Guns
This is the one reason I find that ordinary citizens should not have access to firearms:
A person who shot 13 people Thursday at Northern Illinois University’s DeKalb campus outside Chicago has died, local reports said.
Most of the 13 wounded were shot in the head, said Theresa Comitas, spokeswoman for Kishwaukee Community Hospital, located about 10 minutes from the school.
There is no decent method of preventing anyone from getting a gun in the US that shouldn’t have one. I mean the insane people, the hidden whackos who suddenly just snap, the crazy people who decide that if they want to kill themselves, others have to go with them.
And so - why let anyone have guns?
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A crazy or the hidden whackos who suddenly snap will use a gun, knife, sword, axe, bomb, fire or what ever is available on hand to kill with. If one of the students hand a gun in that lecture hall maybe the shooter’s body count would be a lot lower than it was. Private ownership of guns is a basic right of every American. When we lose that right we lose our liberty.
But they didn’t. That’s why 21 were shot and what, 5, died?
The law as it stands in the US is fine, except that not everyone feels that way. Many feel that by not owning a firearm, they are not contributing to the violent culture, but that does not preclude them from becoming part of it by being a victim of it.
It may be a right (and a valuable one), but unexercised by the majority it becomes a liability in the hands of the minority.
(and yes, I lived in the US for 10 years, and yes, I owned several guns)