Totally unrelated, but one of my old bitchy neighbors called the cops on my apartment because my roommate was outside shooting a BB gun. She told the cops it was a rifle and that I could seriously harm someone. I explained to the cop it was just a BB gun and even showed him. He was like yeah I didn't really think it was a rifle.

Come to find out, this is the lady that has been complaining on me ever since I moved there. I think I'm going to knock on her door in the near future and ask her what the fuck her problem is. When I'm leaving for work at 8:00 in the morning, she always has her door open with a chair propped up and just glares at me. Ok, it's visibly obvious I'm going to work you fucking dyke. Leave me alone.

Old people piss me off.

That is a good reason and arguement to sway people to not want guns banned. I think it's futile to ban them myself though. People will just use other tools to do the job. Instead I think they should just make people get the same mental training soldiers do. I don't know if it would help or not. I think it would. But like I said before it would be easier then getting rid of guns.

I often provide this example when stating why I believe we should uphold the constitution in its word for word form and continue the right to bare arms. Its a two part deal so bare with me...

If you make guns illegal, the bad guys will still have them...and there is nothing you or I can do about it because we dont want to go to jail for getting one too in order to defend ourselves.

With guns being legal, I like the idea of being in a location where some madman comes in with a gun waving around killing people. Only because I know their is a real good chance that someone else in their has one too and is probrably a better shot with it than the madman.

It's bear not bare. Don't you know they meant we have the right to own a pair of bear arms?

Okay I know lame joke...

I'm sorry I was not aware I was in the presence of an "engwish" teacher. From now on I will do spelling and grammer checks just for you. ;)

We have the right to defend ourselves. No way I'm keeping myself unarmed, when the Zionist agents or criminals could invade my home at any moment.

Do you have nightmares about Jews busting into your house and killing you in your sleep? You sound downright paranoid.

Well, now we have kids teacher's in Texas yielding guns in a few schools, I don't have an actual link to a story, but I remember hearing it on the news. It's only a matter of time before teachers are allowed to have them on all campuses, as well as on college campuses. And hell, if everyone can use the same flawed logic to get it to that point, every kid/student/teacher/faculty member should just be able to bring a gun wherever they want. (Fuck the United States, fucking dumb arrogant, ignorant peice of shit rednecks)

ok then you know what lets go in to complete and total anarchy while were at it.....by the way I like your avatar

/agree

i do also remember hearing about the gun-totting teachers. A teacher in order to be effective with it, will need to keep it somewhere extremely easy to get to. If they lock it up, what good would it do them in the time of need? Also, I dont know if they researched this or not but, do they have any idea the amount of possessions stolen at school? Its ridiculous.

It's a scary world we live in. Our country is so ignorant.

After getting into another debate at work about this I feel the need to re-bump this thread for like the 10th time.

The argument basically comes down to defense of yourself.

Now, I personally know two people that both have guns to their name, and neither situation were either of them able to pull their weapon and 'defend' themselves.

One time was a house robbery where 3 masked burgulars stormed this individuals house and pointed their guns at this person while this person could not do anything in time to react, and even more so she said that she would not have done anything because she did not want to get shot. So in that situation the gun was utterly useless and did not persuade the situation one tiny bit.

The other time was an attempted car-jacking in a K-mart parking lot a year or so ago and this individual had a pistol placed to their temple and was asked to step out of the car, after being pulled from the vehicle and the robber looked through the car and found nothing, ended up just running off.

Now imagine either situation where the two people I know reaching for their gun, they most likely would have been shot both times and killed. It's a very weak argument I would say to say anyone has the right to own a pistol, and even more-so ridiculous to say the right to automatic weapons/assault rifles is within the second amendment. Maybe we should all step back and review the context of when it was written.