Mitch 3K says:

People who want to take away guns in this country are fools. Most criminals get their guns in the street anyway, tightening gun laws will just make it harder for normal people to arm themselves, aint gonna effect the criminal population in the slightest. Dont let this psychopathic idiot leave the working man defenseless against every burglar, armed robber or trigger happy gang banger who bought his gun with no serial number out the trunk of a car. I got a license, they take it away I’m just gonna carry mine illegally, straight up.

itlnstln says:

@Mitch

The problem with that line of thinking is that self-defense with a weapon pretty much never happens.

Where was the person in the theater carrying a weapon to stop the shooter?
Where was the person carrying a handgun (in gun-friendly Arizona) to stop the Gabrielle Giffords shooting?
Where was the person carrying a handgun to stop the VA Tech shooter?
Where was the person carrying a handgun to stop the guy who started shooting in the Texas Capital building?

The truth of the matter is that the instigator is always ahead of the defender (the instigator planned it, the defender didn’t). The shooter in CO came in with teargas and already had lit the place up before anybody could react. Had somebody tried to shoot back, the visibility in the theater was so poor that a potential hero could have easily shot an innocent person. The main idea here is that you’re probably going to be dead before you even think about pulling your gun.

Common Sense says:

Are you fucking serious?! Look at every other western nation that doesn’t have this out-dated ‘right to bear arms’ law. There gun related crime is so fucking low (think Crooked I’s fitted) when compared to the US.
Like it or not, there’s a direct correlation between the ridiculously high levels of gun related crimes in the US and the right to bear arms. Simple. As. That.