Do You Think Republicans Will Ever Do Anything About Guns and Violence in America? (Page 2)
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Republicans have probably done a lot more than Democrats to lower crime. It might surprise you that the NRA has probably done more to decrease gun related crimes than the Democrats.
What you are really asking is why they don't ban guns. The answer is easy. It doesn't work and is not needed. But just because they don't ban guns doesn't mean they aren't doing anything.
It may be a bad comparison but me just in my 20s, have been drunk. I can see why there's an age limit but I've never seen too much control. Give someone beer and most times they look ridiculous and do dumb things or just end up knocking out. Letting someone be drunk below the age has its consequences just as much as those owning a gun. There are the good and there are the bad.
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Well, just for comparison, a gun is MUCH safer than driving a car. It's safer and much easier to use. I'd much rather be around a responsible 12 year old with a gun who has had safety training than a responsible 18 year old driving a car who has had safety training. That's because a car is a heck of a lot harder to drive and be safe than shooting a gun. There is also physics involved. A car is a heck of a lot more dangerous than a gun - it's straight math and physics.
Of course alcohol doesn't mix with either one. But if I had to pick, I'd rather be around someone with a gun who has been drinking that someone driving a car who has been drinking - for the same reason I mentioned above.
As far as age limits, I have a LOT more problem with people driving at 16 than I do with a 10 year old kid using a gun. There are a lot of parents who take their kids out hunting at that age. I have no problem with it and neither does the law.
Personally I took a gun safety class at my elementary school when I was 10-11. We were handling and shooting BB guns in the school cafeteria. That wouldn't happen today. People would freak out over it.
Americans are well know for always doing the correct thing.. after first exhausting every other possibility and being forced to do something about it. Its a good question of how many more kids have to die before Republicans truly feel the need to do something about it.
Republicans don't want to do anything to change anything from old views that would be against their whole point of conservativism. So that would not be a thing they would do because their old views tell them that everyone should have a right to carry and if insane person gets a gun we'll just take our chances of hoping someone shoots them first.
You may think bad of me for saying so but I could care less. People need to stop watching the news. Every week it's something new. This guy shot that guy, this person killed that person. Enough is enough already. If the news didn't report on all this trash it wouldn't stop but it would severely decrease. Idiots watching TV see theese things on the news and they think oh if I do that I'll end up on tv. If you don't watch the news they make no money and they'll stop there bullsh#it.
Democrat-run cities with strict gun control have defunded police and done away with cash bail while allowing Antifa and other criminals to run rampant. Democrat-run cities have huge rates of firearm homicides. It’s time for Democrats to do something about violent crime in the jurisdictions they control rather than coddling criminals and trying to make law-abiding citizens defenseless.
You mean,. keep them out of the hands of psychotic democrats? Maybe if Trump gets back in! That's just another reason you should vote for him! All the criminals will be LOCKED THE FUCK UP, WHERE THEY BELONG!! NOT roaming the fucking streets, which you fucking loony democrats want so bad!!
It's not the guns that are the problem. We need to train American people that they don't need to shoot people to be respected. Even gangsters from Samoa complained that they had to buy guns, because American gangsters don't want to fist fight like real men, they just want to shoot you.
So this is a problem with American people, not the guns.
Republicans will always support the Constitution and Democrats will never allow mental medical records of individuals to be known or respect the Constitution. So, not unless Democrats succeed in their mission to destroy the Constitution or we have a 2nd civil war , then everything will remain the same.
Tell me a new law that would change anything than what is going on.
They might, once they start losing the majority of local, state and federal elections... but then the Democrats would really need to get their act together and convince 26+ percent of the population that they have the right answers.
We do want to do stuff to stop mass shooting. The are just a different method from the left.
Realistically we been going about the lefts way of doing something for decades and their way has done nothing.
How about we try our way for once. Leftist are insane for trying the same thing every single time.
Gun violence is the worst in democrat run areas and if you remove our worst cities from the statistics we're comparable to the rest of the world. Fix the Detroits of the world
Where do they get their guns an ammo?
@goaded feel free to ask them one by one
I don't think guns are the issue. If these people don't have access to guns, they will find another way to do it. We need to address the mental health issues. Blaming firearms for the actions of evil people is like blaming forks for causing obesity.
No. Maybe if we ever normalize the families of mass shooting victims taking out republicans who receive money from the NRA, but that's unlikely.
I wish people would stop killing people with cars. Wait let's pass a law that says they have to be at least 16 before they can get behind the wheel.
STOP blaming the object and start educating people.
It is not just republicans who stand up for the 2nd Amendment.
Can we start by educating you?
@I_Can_Help No you can not.
You need education.
A car's purpose is for transportation. A gun's purpose is to kill.
@I_Can_Help They are both tools and can be used for good or not good depending on who is using the tool
You are a tool. Comparing a gun to a car is ridiculous. Why? Guns were specifically created to kill. Cars were created for transport. And when car accidents occur, steps are taken to make them safer. When guns kill, people like you come up with excuses and false comparisons. Sad stuff.
No, they get far too much money from the NRA, do you know why they won't change the second amendment, it's because they say it's God who gave them the gun.
No, I'm sure they won't do anything. They love guns and they love getting money from NRA. Unfortunately more schools shootings might happen.
Yep they're doing a lot. It will hurt your Democrat "stars" s lot, but it should remove some of those orchestrating the school shootings.
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When America becomes a socialist country and is civilized and criminals and the police are disarmed and there is free health care and education and housing I will consider giving up the right to own a gun
Democrats want to abolish prisons and let the hood rats roam the streets. The Walgreens had to leave San Francisco, because the hood rats were allowed to steal everything in the store. Gee, I wonder why people have guns.
You are off topic. Typical of no idea Republicans.
How about not buying guns until age 21 or not buying assault, military guns? They are not laws on national level. Let us start there and this past gun terror would not have happened.
I'm just a stupid Republican with no ideas. How about we make a law where you can't by fentanyl until you're 21. Look how many lives could be saved if we just did that. How about we said you couldn't buy heroin until you're 21. How about the same with crack cocaine and methamphetamines?
How about we punish crimes and put people in jail? How about once you're in jail they go to prison and they stay in prison?
I work in a prison work release and you have no idea how many murders are working in restaurants. Many of them go on to a murder again, the Democrats don't care.
It’s patently untrue that doing “something” is better than doing nothing. Especially when the “something” is taking rights away from free people.
Doing something could be useful tho. But definitely not any of the suggestions I’ve been hearing from Democrats lately