re my gun is like my american express card in article cmm thomasp surt ifi uio no thomas parsli thomasp ifi uio no writes drivers licence forgot that usa is the land of cars getting one in scandinavia and northern europe is not easy average time is about hours of training and the cost is rather is the license required for driving a car exclusively on private property such as a farm here in the united states the license is required only for the use of public roads abuse by the goverment this seems to be one of the main problems any harder gun control would just be abused by the goverment either some of you are a little paranoid no offence or you should get a new goverment you do have elections we also have a nation of million people many issues and usually only two candidates for a given office a president might be willing to abuse mild gun control laws and create a de facto ban something a majority of the people would object to and still be elected the voters might look at issues like the civil rights of minorities health care etc and vote for the lesser of two evils i don t think this is a matter of paranoia since local governments in for example new york and chicago have abused existing mild gun control laws to create a virtual ban guns n criminals most weapons used by criminals today are stolen known criminals can not buy weapons that s one of the points of gun control in which case the united states already has adaquate gun control laws according to federal statistic only of gun wielding criminals legally purchase their own guns from licensed dealers if that s the point of gun control to prevent criminals from legally purchasing guns then america doesn t need any additional laws to accomplish this mixing weapons and things that can be use as one what i meant was that cars can kill but they are not guns how is this any different from guns there are legal purposes for owning and using a gun they are appropriate tools for hunting target shooting and self defence like cars murder isn t their only or even a common use if of all murders was done with axes would you impose some regulations on them or just say that they are ment to be used at trees and that the axe is not a problem it s the axer i certainly couldn t imagine the american public accepting regulation of axes while the politics of other nations may be different in america there is strong opposition to any intrusive law that primarily would effect the average law abiding citizen who had not done anything wrong think about the situation in los angeles where people are buying guns to protect themselves is this a good situation is it the rigth way to deal with the problem a good way to deal with which problem it is an excelent way to deal with the short term problem of rioting and violent attacks of course it doesn t do anything for the long term issues that start riots but at this point what can these individuals do about long term social problems if everybody buys guns to protect themselves from criminals and their neighbor who have guns what do you think will happen i mean if everybody had a gun in usa there are according to surveys guns in of american homes in many parts of the country this is closer to those places where almost everyone owns a gun are on average safer than those where guns are less common last word responsible gun owners are not a problem but they will be affected if you want to protect your citicens this is i think a fundamental difference between american government and that of other nations here it is not acceptable to punish or restrict the average law abiding citizen in the name of some vague common good frank crary cu boulder
