Comments on: What about the right to live?

By: markduffy

markduffy — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

First time post. I never post on any of these boards. But when I read your opinion, I had to post to tell you that many conservatives agree with your opinion. I’m a very conservative person. I have a lot of conservative friends. Many who own guns. And we all agree that the right to bear arms is very important, but we also believe that there should be strict regulations in place. It’s common sense.
I subscribe to the conservative view that government should be small and limited. But a critical responsibility of the government is to protect it’s citizens. Regulating guns so that they cannot easily be obtained by criminals and lunatics certainly falls within that responsibility. Protecting the right of law abiding citizens to bear arms also falls within that responsibility. We need to be able to protect ourselves. Common sense tells us that both are possible.
I think the time is coming soon that politicians will wake up and see that they have the support of an overwhelming majority of Americans to place better regulations on gun ownership.

By: Razor

Razor — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Anyone like Cho who makes up his mind to kill people will find a way to do it. Gun registration, regulation, confiscation, only leaves guns in the hands of criminals. They will get thier guns no matter how many laws there are.
Guns have been around for centuries and they are mainly used to kill people. The united states government is the biggest supplier of guns in the world. There is a lot of money in selling tools to kill. This is a societal problem not a gun problem. Cho could have done comparable damage with a machete or a bomb or a vehicle. This would have not happened had people that knew he had a mental problem and could be dangerous did not do anything to help him or deter him and that is why it happened. Gun laws are fine, but any more gun laws will lead right to confiscation because that is a main factor when countries are being turned into ruled countries. Instead of spending trillions of dollars on phoney wars that kill thousands and make a few elites rich, spend that money on social improvements and education so wierdos can get help when they need it and you wouldn’t have horror in the classrooms. More laws is something this country does not need.

By: Redneckmother

Redneckmother — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

So you gun liberals (bet you love reading that NRA) see no problem with this scenerio:

A demented kid with a Green Card walked in a gunshop, handed $571 to an untrained clerk (his comment “seemed like a clean cut kid” and he had a driver license. And passed the ATF “Instant Check,” even though a Judge declared him a hazard to others 2 years ago. Don’t give me your excuses that without guns he could have become a mad bomber or axe murderer this is a true story. This sick bastard got off on having guns in his hands, good bet that he practiced his routine at a range with other “good-ol-boys” pretty good bet he played Doom too, why should I let any role players off the hook.

Maybe you NRA freaks haven’t noticed. You’ve pissed down your leg in your excitement to make a point; “if everyone on campus had been armed… If everyone on campus were armed we’d all be taking our chances with every hormonal punk and premenstrual woman over there.

If kids have to have a vouch safe and verified instruction to get a learners permit to drive, why shouldn’t a handgun require a license too.

Yeah I got guns, doesn’t mean I want every other wandering idiot armed as well.

Wise up! This would be a hell of a time for someone, Charlton Heston? to propose a real change which we are about done waiting for. Or would you like to see what Congress does with this…

By: SEAL

SEAL — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Any of you who thinks that more and tougher regulations will prevent people like Cho from acquiring a gun are so naive it must be deliberate. I can go downtown and illegally buy a gun within 2-3 days in just about any city in the country and so can you. And the more laws you make the easier it will be to buy illegal guns. Wake up to reality and stop arguing nonsense.