You know this massacre thing...?

[Swastika]

I totally agree. Hunting shouldn't even be a sport, every time someone gets a gun something bad happens, this time it was really bad!

It is a sport though at the end of the day, and i disagree that every time somebody gets gun - something bad happens.
If a gun is in the right hands, the owner and everybody around the owner will be entirely safe.

[Black_Apalachi]

I think we should all be allowed to keep guns generally (following the American style system in the states where it is allowed). If somebody whos a total nutcase/a criminal wants a gun - they will get a gun. With gun bans/making them hard to get for the law-abiding people, then you only make sure that the only people left with guns are the bad guys leaving the good guys defenceless. In this country its the criminals > law abiding majority in terms of rights.

Only skimmed the thread and I was going to say they should just ban them all completely but this is a very true point. Although if they were banned and the punishment for possession of a firearm was severe enough (i.e. life imprisonment because let's face it - it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume somebody unlawfully possessing any gun would have malicious intentions), then surely very few people would risk it.

A comment I heard but don't quite understand is how a gun ban would prevent us hosting the Olympic Games... Whatever guns are involved with there along with other obvious ones like the police force could surely be the exceptions?

[Jordy]

Only skimmed the thread and I was going to say they should just ban them all completely but this is a very true point. Although if they were banned and the punishment for possession of a firearm was severe enough (i.e. life imprisonment because let's face it - it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume somebody unlawfully possessing any gun would have malicious intentions), then surely very few people would risk it.

A comment I heard but don't quite understand is how a gun ban would prevent us hosting the Olympic Games... Whatever guns are involved with there along with other obvious ones like the police force could surely be the exceptions?

Yeah they use pistols for some sport in the Olympics, they create a special exemption for the Olympic Games though, which has only previously been made for the Commonwealth games - The British team aren't even allowed to train over here they do it in Switzerland. Pistols are pretty much all illegal in the UK other than the odd security firm.

[HotelUser]

I think, in most every modern society, one of the most absolute flawed and stupid aspects is gun control. Especially in the USA where it's incredibly easy to own a hand gun. It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard of in my entire life.

[Black_Apalachi]

My mate brought up a good point in a conversation yesterday; the invention of the gun basically makes the risk of manslaughter much higher. If you flip out on someone and hit them or whatever, they'll probably be hurt but they're unlikely to die or even be seriously injured and will be fine after a day or two. But if you happen to have a gun at hand, that same amount of rage could have very different consequences. The gun allows a method of attack that is far too easy to be fatal even if it is unintentional.