Personally, I think guns SHOULD be restricted. Not totally banned. There are instances where guns come in handy, getting robbed, held up, etc. Personal safty, you get the idea. But as it seems this is a harder problem to resolve then it looks. It's not as simple as banning, or restricting. Guns are more then sticks that fire flying chunks of metal at high speeds. A gun can fire a bullet in a fraction of a second, and take more then one life at once, with one single shot. And to add to that, it can be done exstremely remotely. Any weapon that can take a life as fast and as remotely, defenatly shoudlent be so easily obtained by people who shoudlent have them in the first place. However you're right. Guns dont kill people, people do. But the crazy people are never going to leave.
Even if there are restrictions, or big jail sentences for people owning illegeal fire arms. There still going to own them. Most people dont even care about how much jail time they 'could' do for getting caught with one. But I bet a lot of the people who sell them illegeally would.
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Personally, I think guns SHOULD be restricted. Not totally banned. There are instances where guns come in handy, getting robbed, held up, etc. Personal safty, you get the idea. But as it seems this is a harder problem to resolve then it looks. It's not as simple as banning, or restricting. Guns are more then sticks that fire flying chunks of metal at high speeds. A gun can fire a bullet in a fraction of a second, and take more then one life at once, with one single shot. And to add to that, it can be done exstremely remotely. Any weapon that can take a life as fast and as remotely, defenatly shoudlent be so easily obtained by people who shoudlent have them in the first place. However you're right. Guns dont kill people, people do. But the crazy people are never going to leave.
Even if there are restrictions, or big jail sentences for people owning illegeal fire arms. There still going to own them. Most people dont even care about how much jail time they 'could' do for getting caught with one. But I bet a lot of the people who sell them illegeally would.