Did your views on guns change?
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Re: Did your views on guns change?
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I agree about the mental health component. I had an exboyfriend that had a gun and one night he got drunk and told me he was afraid he would do something stupid. I took his gun to my place that night. I remember sitting there unable to sleep thinking about how I wish someone more qualified than I was involved. The hard thing is if people do not want to see someone though, and I can never foresee people agreeing to see someone just because they have a gun.CatInTheHat wrote: ↑10 Mar 2018, 22:41My views did not change. I'm a left-leaning gun owner, due to the inheritance of guns that are locked up with no ammunition. I'm fine with people owning them, but think that rigid background checks, training, and field testing should be required. Field testing every few years, to be sure that you can still shoot accurately. Mental health providers should be required to notify a national database when a client presents any inclination whatsoever to hurting someone else. Their gun permits should be revoked until the mental health provider no longer has ANY concerns.Scott wrote: ↑01 Mar 2018, 10:03 A major theme in this book is gun control and the dangers posed by guns. I know the author cares about the issue of gun safety.
Did reading this book change your views on guns or views on gun control at all? Why or why not? If your views did change, in what ways did they change?
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I have thought about that too. Even a drivers test is harder to pass. People always turn to the idea that many things can kill, but I always ask, why do we not control what we can? People are so worried that someone is coming to take their guns that they are very unwilling to even talk about how guns getting into the wrong hands is happening because the system is broken and needs to be fixed.VictoriaMcMillen wrote: ↑12 Mar 2018, 19:16 My views on gun control expanded, although my view of guns has not changed. I believe guns are for hunting more than anything. I have always believed that assault rifles should be left to the military, and the government should follow the Constitution of the United States. It seems whenever great tragedy strikes somewhere it is a bomb or an assault rifle that causes the mass loss of life. There are restrictions and monitoring on bomb-making ingredients, even on ingredients to make drugs, yet there are states that allow people to acquire these weapons with no paperwork hardly at all. I am even more concerned about the lack of education for many gun owners- if all it takes to get a gun is a ten-year-old's gun safety quiz. Gun laws need to be uniform and drafted with the citizen's ongoing input, education and safety requirements hopefully being key to the bill.
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This was very refreshing to read. I think if more gun owners thought like you did the conversation of gun reform would turn into action. I will never own a gun, nor do I like guns, but I understand some people do. I just think that we need to figure out how to keep guns out of the wrong hands (or even if we are able to cut down how many do that could save hundreds to thousands of lives).1ditzyrn wrote: ↑16 Mar 2018, 19:50 I have not finished reading this book, but I don't think that it will change my views on guns. I am a gun owner who advocates for stricter gun control and reform. I feel that we need better laws, mental health screenings, and a nationwide database for gun purchases. I agree with several of the posts above that say "not everyone who can own a gun, should".
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I agree 100% that we need to figure out how to keep guns out of the wrong hands. People tend to panic when they hear the words gun reform, thinking that this means those who don't own guns want to outlaw them. This is not the case. It simply means that we need to evaluate how our system is currently set. The problem is when people think you are trying to "take their rights away", they are no longer in any state of mind to have a logical discussion about the issues at hand. Until we can get all parties involved to step out of that emotional state and into a state where we can work together to make the world safer for everyone, I worry that gun reform will never become a reality.britt13 wrote: ↑16 Mar 2018, 22:34This was very refreshing to read. I think if more gun owners thought like you did the conversation of gun reform would turn into action. I will never own a gun, nor do I like guns, but I understand some people do. I just think that we need to figure out how to keep guns out of the wrong hands (or even if we are able to cut down how many do that could save hundreds to thousands of lives).1ditzyrn wrote: ↑16 Mar 2018, 19:50 I have not finished reading this book, but I don't think that it will change my views on guns. I am a gun owner who advocates for stricter gun control and reform. I feel that we need better laws, mental health screenings, and a nationwide database for gun purchases. I agree with several of the posts above that say "not everyone who can own a gun, should".
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As far as guns aimed a people, well, being a "#me too victim", I could pull the trigger should I ever be attacked again. Self-protection is an important part of who we are. My family depends on me, and I depend on them. How far does arming ourselves go? I think it depends on the situation. I will say that whether it is a knife, gun, bear spray, or another item, people will protect themselves. I believe that our society is angry. It matters not what weapon is used, those who plan on harming people will find a way regardless of the "rules of the land."
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