10 year ban on assault weapons ends

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Originally Posted by playa_playa

Listen, guns are NECESSARY in some cases; especially handguns. Do you want to tell a single mom who commutes through a gang-ridden downtown street to do so without protecting herself with a firearm?

But you see, if guns were illegal, it would be harder for those gang members to have guns. Meaning they would have to try and conceal a baseball bat.

If guns are illegal, that means nobody woul dhave them. You just need stricter gun laws.

The only reason you would need a gun to protect yourself is because someone is shooting at you with a gun.
And where did they get that gun? At the gun store.
And how did they get it? Because its legal.
If you make guns illegal, shootings will go down, its a proven fact.

Gang crime will go down, because like i said, you cant conceal a baseball bat.

And are the cops gonna belive that 20 guys dressed in colours are going to a game of baseball at 1 am? No, i dont think so.

Its easy to get rid of guns. Make gun laws stricter. I mean come on, you guys get jail time for having weed, but not guns. Guns kill people, weed just makes you stupid.

Make having a gun like a 10 year sentance. Not for shooting a gun, just for having it. Unless it is proven it is for hunting reasons.

EDIT: But who am I to say guns should be illegal, my brother-ish friend was just shot and burned to death, thats all.

And no, im not trying to use that to my advantage in this conversation.

Guns = Violence. Yes, a baseball bat can too, but baseball bats dont fire little balls of iron or lead at your face. You have to walk up to someone to smash-em with a bat, unless you can throw little chunks of the bat at like 600 mp/h. with deadly aim, then were in trouble.