If everyone carried a gun...

[Lohman446]

it would go way up
whan people get mad, they attack the people who are making them mad (natural impulse) and when your mad at someone, most people would not hesitate to whip out a gun and shoot them. Not carrying guns saves more lives, than it would if everyone carried. im sure you would rather be robbed, and beat up than rich and in jail for murder.

Yeh, cause everytime I get mad I commit assault. Like just the other day, I got pissed at someone cheating and I had my paintball gun (on the field) so I just lit him up I wish you would give most Americans more credit - those with a history of violent crimes should not be permitted to own, let alone carry firearms.

Oh wait.. I just looked at something - another reason why we don't let people under 18 own guns. I was there once too... there's just something wrong with you people and impulse control. I'm sure that doesn't apply to everyone... just most of you.

[dwab3000]

whoa cryer...gun..use sumthing blunt, like a lead pipe, or a steel base ball bat...even a didjaridoo(its an australian instrument i cant spell)

and what do you work for dunbar???

[Restola]

Yeh, cause everytime I get mad I commit assault. Like just the other day, I got pissed at someone cheating and I had my paintball gun (on the field) so I just lit him up I wish you would give most Americans more credit - those with a history of violent crimes should not be permitted to own, let alone carry firearms.

Oh wait.. I just looked at something - another reason why we don't let people under 18 own guns. I was there once too... there's just something wrong with you people and impulse control. I'm sure that doesn't apply to everyone... just most of you.

You are replying to someone who reasoned this through with a 14 year old mind and a 14 year old's way of solving problems.

I'm glad they can't vote.

[Lohman446]

You are replying to someone who reasoned this through with a 14 year old mind and a 14 year old's way of solving problems.

I'm glad they can't vote.

There's just something wrong with those people .

I personally think it has to do with teenage hormones and the abstinence drive but who am I to say.

[Cryer]

...and what do you work for dunbar???

Worse: The Bryan-College Station Eagle Newspaper

[dwab3000]

damn
if you could move up here...*notices what he was saying and stops before cryers living with him*

i dont think that you will get a concealed weapons permit...your cryer

[Cryer]

LOL

[Ov3rmind]

If everyone who is responsible and sane owned a gun, then yes, the population would be much safer. However, if you gave everyone a gun, it would most definitely be more dangerous. There are enough psychopaths and crazies out there to cause trouble without reguard to their own life (whether they intend on dying or they feel they can pull it off, who knows). How exactly do you determine this? Are there age limits? Do you have to visit a psychiatrist first? Do we give guns to people who have committed major felonies?

[Cryer]

...There are enough psychopaths and crazies out there to cause trouble without reguard to their own life...

The unsettling part is, all these people already have guns. So now what?

Hypothetical Question:

That dude over there has a cool watch. You want that cool watch. Besides Morals, Ethics, and law enforcement (which obviously dont work as well as they used to), whats to stop you from taking that watch?

Answer(s):

In your world: Nothing. Go get the cool watch.

In my world: The dude has a cool watch and a glock.

[dwab3000]

shouldnt you be the one without the sense of him being armed cryer...just makes sense

[Sockman]

Down. Way down. Accidents nonewithstanding, because, after all, they are accidents, not violent crimes.
Anyhow, I love it how everyone has an opinion. It just bugs me that someone who has barely passed puberty thinks they are an authority on public behavior and relations.
First off, anyone who is legally able to bear arms are probably mature enough not to go and shoot someone because the other looked at them strangely.
The problem with citizens/immigrants who are mentally ill or otherwise socially unstable enough to cause harm would be taken of rather quickly due to natural (or not so natural) selection. With those elements dispatched of, this country would be a pretty darned safe compared to what it was, say, twenty years ago.

Besides, I'm sure 95% of today's criminals would be damn hesitant to try to take on the guy with the .45.

[dwab3000]

well...look you still have the mentally unstable, they dont relize somethings, so they would run up on a guy with a .45
next, it was also never specified that anyone knew that everyone had a gun, so itd be a couple of trial and error runs before we found out.
next you have children who dont know better, they have magnums now.

so theirs the insane killing people, the ones on the trial and error ones dead, and children killing there peers.
hmm then also that person isnt gonna whip out a .45 with a cop standing next to em, are they, i mean if you know this guy is gonna rob you, you have to evidence to show the cop, and that person walks toward you...are you gonna kill him and get life in prison...

oh and what about the death rows and lifers
they are gonna die, so hmp why do you flip out on the prison with a nice gov't issue .45

and please dont call people who are not as smart as you and say a different opinion "barely passed puberty"

im 38 (well past puberty) and im showing how crime would go up


and my homer quote in my sig about guns...guns can be tools...tools to let your anger out as long as its at the range, or shooting skeets, or hunting...but keep it legal

[Ov3rmind]

The unsettling part is, all these people already have guns. So now what?

How could you possibly know that? How do you even know half, or even 1/10th of them do? Just because they are mentally unstable doesn't mean they own a gun.

Hypothetical question:

That dude over there has a cool watch. You want that cool watch. Besides Morals, Ethics, and law enforcement (which obviously dont work as well as they used to), whats to stop you from taking that watch?

Answer(s):

In your world: Nothing. Go get the cool watch.

Actually, morals and the possibility of getting into a fight is a good deterrant. They don't need a gun for me not to steal something they have.

In my world: The dude has a cool watch and a glock.

In your world everyone owns guns as well. Who's to say you don't just shoot him in the back of the head and take it?

I'm not arguing against gun ownership, just against the possibility of everyone owning a gun. I think it's perfectly fine for a person to own a gun if they're responsible enough.

[dwab3000]

good points...
i think your the only other person who said about the issue

How could you possibly know that? How do you even know half, or even 1/10th of them do? Just because they are mentally unstable doesn't mean they own a gun

only thing it lacked was you saying about the lack of knowledge of the criminal knowing the other person had a gun...cause how are we gonna know, is god gonna decend from the heavens with little nekked fat angels around him while hes saying "and thou shalt know from now to eternity, that everyone shalt have weapons known as firearms"
i think not...well if your high maybe

[1stdeadeye]

Do we give guns to people who have committed major felonies?

We don't give guns to anyone! No one would be required to carry them. Those that pass the criminal.psychiatric back ground check should be allowed to carry them!