Your opinion on Guns?
491179
.308, 7.62x39 are ok rifle cartridges for defense, 12 gauge buckshot is a lot safer/more deadly in a home environment though.  10mm/40 S&W/45 ACP are all fine pistol cartridges, 9mmx19 is a little underwhelming in my opinion.  As far as cheap goes, go for a SKS (7.62x39) and a 12 gauge remington 870 shotgun.  You can get both of these for about $425 total.  A good handgun is gonna cost you quite a bit more, don't buy the cheap stuff like kel-tec, you will be dissapointed.  Buy a brand name like S&W, Kimber, Para Ord., ect.
220710
Good evening Major,I'm a retired Sergeant in the U.S. Army, possibly at the same time as yourself,oh well.Man, our Country's have really put us lifers through some stuff HUH? Late December 1966,Kontoum Provence,Search & Destroy,monsoon, my Stevens & Savage 12 Ga. Pump shotgun lost a spring,an important spring,Ord. had to have the weapon to fix it. The only replacement weapon was a captured Kalishnikaugh,Model 47.I had that weapon five(5) days,it saw action twice,two good fire......the 47 was flawless,I didn't want to give it up when that hillbilly shotgun came back,it was and is the World's finest Gererilla warfare weapon......Sir.It's almost mid-night here, whatever time it is there Sir,I hope you're good!
467112
Guns, handguns, Bombs, Nuclear weapons, and other weapons
385917
I own guns and have for about 50 years and none of them have ever harmed another human or myself. I use them for sport and exercize. I do not think that I or my guns need controled. However if I was to use them for ill will then I think that I could expect to receive maxamum puninishment for doing so. In other words guns do not harm humans, humans harm humans. I do think the laws ought to be geared toward that.
1121328
It depends:(I did)\n\nDo you understand gun safety?\nDo you understand the seriousness of owning a gun?\nAre you a responsible individual and understand that firearms are not toys?\nIf you understand that firearms are not toys, can you stick to that?\nFor what reason do you want one?
924998
I'd get a samurai sword.\n\nlol\n\nGun laws only affect law abiding citizens.\n\nCriminals aren't law abiding therefore, for the most part, gun laws don't affect them.\n\nGun laws only succeed in disarming the wrong people and giving the advantage to criminals.
487830
Americans are allowed to own handguns. What makes you think they'd choose watching Eastenders over blowing their own brains out first? If I had the choice I'd take the Colt 45 option anyday.\n\nI heard Kurt Cobain caught 10 minutes of it once tho.
866849
Yes guns should NOT be legalised in britain. It opens it up for any maggot to get a hold of one, One of the nice things about living here is knowing that we have little chance of ever seeing one, let alone having one pointed at us. However we do have the right to bear arms and defend ourselves against intruders. This could be anything that comes to hand, even your hands themselves. Maybe a handy baseball or cricket bat, or a hammer. Personally I favour the razor sharp samurai sword. Nothing says 'get the fuck out of my house' quite like one of those.
394927
I am very fond of HK's UMP .45 calibur SMG.\n\nStop crying, rain, guns aren't responsible for murder, people are responsible for murder.
255407
Stop the craziness.  . . end violence.  A regular citizen has no need to own a handgun.  Read the statistics and you'll see what I mean-- regular domestic squabbles turn into murders when there's a handgun available. . . burglars who break in use homeowners' own guns to kill them. . . kids who are shoplifting a candy bar are shot to death by vigilantes (yes, shoplifitng is wrong, but not worthy of MURDER. . .)  Please please rethink your reason for owning a gun.  Until there are psychiatric tests given when people want to buy guns, there will be more and more violence.  You don't need a gun to be a real man.
769791
The guns in Face Off of Nicholas Cage's character Castor Troy or the guns used by Demi Moore's character Madison Lee in Charlie's angels Full Throttle\n\nwww.gunsinmovies.com/movies/\n\n\nJust a Comment for some:\n\nGuns Don't Kill, People Kill!!!
774295
If our defense be the real object of having arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands? \n\nPeople who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically 'right.' Guns ended that, and republicanism is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.
378752
Guns.  Today, kids with guns would be a problem, but in colonial days they were just helping to hunt.\n\nWitch hunts.  Now we just have modern politics like McCarthyism, but I'm sure it's just not the same.\n\nSmallpox.  Back then it wasn't just for secret weapons labs, nor was it special to gifts of blankets given to the natives.\n\nQuakers.  They prohibited sex and eventually people lost interest in conversion.\n\nA king (human).  Good ole George would tell them all what to do so they didn't have to worry about making their own economic policy decisions.\n\nImagination.  Thanks to TV and video games, this is mostly not there any more.\n\nDances.  This happened more frequently and played a larger role in society.\n\nSlaves.  Apparently this was outlawed in the 1860's, but apparently some rich people never quite accepted that it was completely wrong.\n\nBooze.  The drinking age was much lower back when there were no cars to drive.
282982
It only seems that people hate the NRA.  What they want is a reduction of use of guns for violence, and they see the NRA as "for violence" because of their strong support of the 2nd amendment.\n\nPeople are not very precise in their thinking, especially when emotional issues are "informing" their thought processes.  That is true of both sides of the gun issue.  It is a hard issue because both sides have valid points.\n\nOn the one hand, look at all these people who really don't know anything about guns but go ahead and keep them lying around - their kids get 'em and shoot themselves or their siblings, or the adults get drunk and shoot themselves or others, etc.  And they get mad at somebody and go get their gun and start shooting in the "heat of passion."  Most people really don't have it together enough to be trusted with a firearm.  Some people feel the solution is to keep them from having them in the first place.\n\nOn the other hand, there are lots of people who were brought up in a culture that used and understood guns and use them very responsibly.  But they don't always understand that most people don't share their culture and really don't have a clue - they just have guns, and not always for a good reason.\n\nTo me, the 2nd amendment is quite clear and the government is prohibited from abridging the right to keep and bear arms.  Courts can distort and corrupt the English language to get around the plain meaning of the 2nd, and if they can get away with doing that to the 2nd, they can get away with doing it to all the amendments.\n\nI am not in favor of letting every dumbbutt have a gun, and I don't think that anybody really needs to have guns designed specifically for military purposes.  But I agree with the constituion that it is a good idea not to abridge the right to keep and bear ordinary arms.  The mere mention, in a dependent clause, in the 2nd amendment of a governmental interest in preserving the right does nothing to qualify the right.  Doing violence to the language is a bad precedent indeed.\n\nSo if the county really, as a whole country, wants to ban guns, it has to formally amend the constituion to do so.\nOn this front, I would like to see the NRA get tough with the courts and forcefully "correct their language skills" and point out that that that judge in the 1930's who claimed that the 2nd amendment allowed only a "militia" to keep and bear arms skewered the language to get a favored result and I would like the NRA to additionally point out that this kind of shenanigans, applied to the other amendments, will destroy the constituion.\n\nThat's in addition to any other good deeds the NRA does :).
658207
Shock and outrage. Where would my child have access to a lethal weapon to take to school? I would be really upset with myself, if I was a gun owner, that my child would not respect the power and force of a firearm. I would also be upset at myself for allowing my child to have access to this, and that as a responsible gun owner, I was doing a diservice to other responsible gun owners by allowing them access to my guns.
681056
no way should they ban guns,i love guns,i just think their are iresposible people getting hold of them,i dont think you will ever stop gun deaths in the u.s because it is human nature to kill each other,and also the criminals would be the only one with the guns ,or the police wich is just as bad,people need to be taught the real dangers of guns becouse they are not toys.
891071
I'm for background checks, waiting periods, and against certain types of guns (ie assault rifles), but as long as you're not a criminal or insane, I've got no problems with people owning guns.