(Jul 10, 2016, 07:43 AM)Tmdirtbike Wrote: [ -> ]I think everyone should own a gun. Let's be honest, no laws are going to stop people from getting deadly weapons[..]
Sure, anyone can get their hands on an illegal if they really want to, but the biggest factor is if they can afford to.
I'll refeer you to my previous post about blackmarket-prices on weapons rising in countries such as Australia who basically re-did how they handle guns. If I were to get my hands on an illegal firearm in Norway then I'd have to spend a lot of money to get it, and I'd also have to take a big risk in getting it without getting caught.
I fully disagree with that everyone should own a gun, just because of how many idiots there are out there. People with temper issues, people who get drunk, bla bla bla. Give everyone a gun and you'll see a big spike in weapon-related crime and violence. There's no way around that. Everyone who wants to own a gun should have
proper background investigation to find those who are violent, unstable and bla bla bla.
If you need to give everyone a gun because the world is so dangerous, then that's the wrong solution. You're not making the world safer by giving everyone a gun.
You mention burglaries in your argument and that everyone needs a gun for self-defense.
In Norway, burglaries are almost always done when no-one is at home, and if you are at home when it happens then they will almost always try later at a later date. If someone is going around robbing places and he thinks that there is someone home with a gun, but he wants to rob the place then he'll need to get a gun himself. Giving people guns doesn't make the world less dangerous. It can increase situations escalating.
If you're robbed and you're carrying a concealed gun, should you just give the man your wallet and remove yourself way from the situation, or should you risk your life trying to kill him yourself? It's very dangerous for a gun-owner to overestimate his own abilities while underestimating their "opponents".
I personally think that people owning guns can cause for a lot more problems than owning a gun will solve and that it's not worth it. There's been enough shooting-episodes in USA already, and it's clear that "the right to own a gun" hasn't exactly helped USA for the past 100 years. If you give everyone the right to own a gun, then you're also giving that right to an idiot who's willing to escalate any situation that could have been solved without shooting someone.
As I see it, USA has already done something that they can't really recover from, and that's making firearms so accessible. The whole "bad guys own guns so why shouldn't we"-argument falls short when you compare USA to other countries, both countries where guns are rare and not. It's a big lesson that USA has to learn because of the Second Amendment, and I just hope that people will try to learn from past incidents instead of putting the blame where it shouldn't be. The whole "bad guys have access to guns so why shouldn't we" isn't really a valid argument in my eyes, and there needs to be a change and I just wonder how many more mass-shootings that need to take place before eyes are opened.