Am I the only one who is ok with guns?

Well, this is the best time to talk about gun control. One of the problems is the fact that gun control isn't discussed nearly enough here in the United states.

What I think. People should be able to own a gun if they want to.

What I also think. Automatic weapons should not be allowed.

Facts. USA has a huge problem with mass shootings, you guys don't even need religious terrorism, you have your own built in nuts who take care of that.

Facts. The idea is that people want/need guns in order to protect themselves but the reality is that so far there hasn't been one situation where you say "Oh you see that? Thanks to that republican owning 10 machine guns, this massacre was adverted!" These guys think they will be some kind of Rambo hero one day, where a terrorist is going to go into a shopping mall and they will pull out their arsenal out of their pants and destroy every single last one of them themselves while singing the national anthem.

In fact, I cannot think of a bigger situation in which a man/woman would be armed and ready to defend themselves than a country music concert in nevada yet this is where the worst mass shooting happened. In other words, owning guns wont help you when a nut like this decides to go GTA on everyone.

Owning a pistol will help you keep your home safer in case of intruders, so I believe people should be allowed to buy guns to protect themselves and their families.

Automatic weapons have been illegal in the US since 1986. And the 2nd amendment was written with military grade weapons in mind.

The conversation about guns is silly and does not address the problem with the insanity/evil of the psychology of someone that does this. If someone blows up a building killing 186 people and injury 600 more do we talk about banning fertilizer? If someone runs of 60+ people with a semi do we talk about banning trucks. The tool an evil person uses doesn't matter. In fact the nice thing about a gun is we can usually identify and eliminate the shooter before they do relevantly greater damage. Imagine if the Vegas shooter had taken the time to finish the bombs in his car and drive it into a large crowd. Probably far more dead. Mass shooters use the guns because it is the easier/quicker method but it is also much less effective. The reason our military had such a hard time in Iraq and Afghanistan was because of explosives not machine guns.

Yours is one of the more intelligent replies here.
I call myself a liberal conservative. My views are primarily conservative but when it comes to gun control, I feel much like you do. I whole heatedly agree that common sense is in short supply when it comes to the stark contrasts of extreme liberals and conservatives.
I would like to hear a sensible argument as to why ordinary citizens need "automatic" weapons, much less a stockpile of them including accessories to fire off massive rounds without reloading.
My feelings are that there is essentially no real difference between "semi" automatic weapons and AUTOMATIC weapons. Semiautomatic is simply a weapon with the same potential capabilities and (much to) easy conversion.
Automatic weapons are supposedly banned (which shows that certain gun control measures are possible); but such bans do not extend to semi automatic weapons or the accessories. This is just stupid.
As to whether or not gun control helps prevent tragedies will always be a point of disagreement but easy access to such weapons should not be possible.
As you said, such weapons should only be available to military and upper level law enforcement.

assault weapons are banned in the US. since 1986. And gun regulations are absolutely as much as they can be. There is no other industry that is so heavily regulated. The Vegas shooter violated dozens of gun regulations; what more regulations would have helped.

The problem I see here with many people is they are speaking from ignorance and really just do not like guns and want to see them gone. But banning them, which is your goal whether you admit or not, is only going to take away legal weapons. The vast majority of shootings are with weapons that were obtained illegally. You would only be disarming citizens that have no intention of ever using their weapons illegally.

Murdoch, I'm coming to get YOU.

Yet, guys who are bullies in school while growing up don't always straighten up and fly right, either, BiffGG. At least as often as not, they come up to be mean adults, and don't fare that well out in the real world. One guy I knew who was a bully became a severe alcoholic, another ended up a heroin addict who served a jail term for stealing in order to obtain heroin, and another guy ended up with Alzheimer's disease and had to be put in a home, by his two grown children.

Some people argue that bullies end up getting theirs eventually, and in all three of the above-mentioned instances, that's been true.

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wow they are deleting my responses, since people can't handle them! this site has really gone to the dogs sad :(

To be fair we ARE a pretty big deal Dazed;)

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one non semi-automatic pistol allowed per household
ban and scrap all semi-automatic weapons

"You lost me at weed...
How does weed even relate to guns? You can't do much damage with weed."

- Not my fault you are an idiot that can't understand a simple argument. Nah, no one is THAT stupid, you are probably a troll. I guess this site has also gone to the dogs. Damn. Well at least there are a few decent people on here, not you of course LOL

@jackrt

2nd Amendment works for me.....to give you one good point. You all are missing the point. The gun(s) is an object which needs an external force to make it work. A truck in Nice, France took out 86 people. The truck was the weapon which needed an external force to send it on its journey. Box cutters and planes were the weapons of choice to murder over 3,000 people; both needed an external force for them to operate. A bomb is a weapon of choice, be it fertilizer or a pressure cooker which needs an external force to create wanton destruction and death.

Listed above are many weapons used to murder. What do they have in common? An external force which happens to be something you would scrape off your shoe....an evil human killing machine hell bent on causing as much death and destruction as possible before leaving this place we call earth.

A gun is an inanimate object. Stop with anti-gun rhetoric and start blaming the one who is making the gun work. As you blamed the truck driver, the scum with box cutters, the poor excuse of a human being who mixed and detonated a fertilizer bomb, the ungrateful brats who made a pressure cooker bomb. Maybe then you anti-gun folks will come up with some reasonable thoughts.

Excellent post, jackrt! Your points are well said...and well taken, to boot. Keep up the good work!

@jackrt

“Obviously there's going to be criminals who will obtain guns illegally, does that mean every gun should be legal and everyone should just get one or even multiple? no.”

Point on for your first part of comment; disagree with the second part. Except for fully automatic weapons...no need for them as they are less accurate. Only for thrill seekers or for mass murderers. As for the last part, I don’t care how many weapons a lawful gun collector has, a hunter has. We do have that thing called the 2nd Amendment. I was raised in a home with a multiple collection. I never touched them.

“There should still be strict gun control policies in place, including thorough tests before obtaining a gun and then further tests every so often.”

There are strict gun control policies in place. I did have to take a course to get my CWP. I did have to have a background check and a waiting period before purchasing my weapon. My fingerprints are in a national data base and my purchase of another weapon in another state was entered into the system.
My current state where I reside is an Open Carry State. Odd thing though I have yet to see someone other than LE have a weapon hanging off their belt! Women do not have to have a permit to carry a weapon inside their handbag. Personally I believe anyone who wishes to carry a concealed weapon should have to take a course and be fingerprinted. But, where I am in disagreement with you is your belief “further tests” are needed. When all of the above procedures are completed, that belief of yours is stepping on my toes and my Rights! Again we have this thing called the 2nd Amendment.