I read somewhere that there were psychological studies that suggest the male’s desire to play with guns is an expression of his own deep seeded feelings of sexual inadequacy.

#31 Lunar…. Well that explains the entire complicated issue right there. My compliments on your well reasoned insight into the minds of gun owners. My wife and daughter will probably put their weapons up for sale immediately and abandon their life long love of shooting sports.

Garrison - Drugs are illegal and they are rampant in society. Do you know of one place where you can legally purchase cocaine, pot, meth, etc? It’s illegal! How are these people getting all of these drugs? It’s called a black market…and you don’t see law-abiding citizens selling drugs now, do you?

Same thing with guns. If you make it illegal to own automatic weapons, the only people who will have them are criminals who can get them from sources outside of the country. So who will benefit from GUN CONTROL? Criminals. Period.

Renee…You need to read Tango’s insane comparisons in comment #26…Then you’ll understand how hillarious my comment is when you read #29…..Where’s your sense of humor?

Bb….Your daughter’s life long love of sports shooting is a heavy price for society to pay.

Groucho…..why make anything illegal? There will always be a way to break the law.

It does no good to try and convice people like Garrison that guns aren’t evil. My suggestion is that if you feel strongly about the 2nd Amendment and you would like to keep your right to bear arms, join the NRA and get as many people as possible to do the same. The NRA is the only organization who will prevent the lunatic lefties from passing legislation to ban guns.
Law abiding citizens need to stand up and fight the socialist/communist liberals.

Also, if you want to keep your guns…don’t vote for Obama or Clinton. They are both FOR extreme gun control laws rendering the 2nd Amendment defunct.

It does no good to try and convice people like Edgar and Garrison that guns aren’t evil. My suggestion is that if you feel strongly about the 2nd Amendment and you would like to keep your right to bear arms, join the NRA and get as many people as possible to do the same. The NRA is the only organization who will prevent the lunatic lefties from passing legislation to ban guns.
Law abiding citizens need to stand up and fight the socialist/communist liberals.

Also, if you want to keep your guns…don’t vote for Obama or Clinton. They are both FOR extreme gun control laws rendering the 2nd Amendment defunct.

Garrison, answer a question for me…
If law abiding citizens don’t cause crime and don’t misuse guns, what good does it do to ban them from having guns? It’s not going to stop criminals from obtaining firearms from illegal sources, and it will aid the criminals in exploiting the people who follow laws.

Look at New Orleans. The state government collected all of the guns from people who follow the laws (registered guns) and people couldn’t defend their homes. Thugs with illegal, unregistered guns looted and killed people without any resistance at all.

How can you be so obtuse? Are you lacking common sense?

Groucho…..nobody wants to ban guns, not even the socialist/communist liberals. We want to slowly phase out all handguns…..I know that takes vision and foresight, but 100 years from now our great grandchildren will thank us. Do we really need to mass produce handguns at the rate of 12 million a year…to protect us from the 12 million handguns mass produced last year?

Law abiding citizens probably wouldn’t misuse hand-grenades either.

Mrs Garrison, how do you propose we phase out all handguns without banning the manufacturing, sale or possession of new handguns?

If we ban guns only criminals will have guns.
If we ban cocaine only criminals will have cocaine.
If we ban ????? only criminals will have ?????.

Logically consistent.

No body is trying to ban firearms. Some people just irrationally look upon any attempt to regulate firearms in the interest of public safety as an infringement. They are wrong. This knee jerk reaction by the nra and it’s sympathizers forces even those of us who are really quite moderate on the issue into the opposing camp. Charlton Moses and his dead, clammy hand are responsible for the lack of progress in this vital area of public safety.