Arizona loves it's guns

[amat]

I'm also for tightening the rules on who can own guns, it's ridiculous how many people obtain guns for the wrong eason. If we can have people take 20 minutes of time to drive around with someone in a car to see if they're fit to drive, we can take 10 minutes to make sure everything is right. I know it's our right to have guns but you should be forced to submit to a background check and medical records. Just because someone may not have an incident on their record doesn't mean they haven't had mental illnesses. The only state I know did it for sure is Wisconsin because I had to cite it in a research paper. It's a good idea.

[Nameless]

It's way too loose and I could never feel safe walking the streets knowing everybody has a gun, including all drunktards in every bars/cafe around.

[amat]

It's way too loose and I could never feel safe walking the streets knowing everybody has a gun, including all drunktards in every bars/cafe around.

I think it's safe to say if you have to carry a gun in a bar then you probably just shouldn't be in a bar. That's kind of an appeal for common sense. However, that's an exception to my gun views. I would never register democrat even though I lean left on a lot of things because of the panzy way San Franciscans view guns.

[Nameless]

It's way too loose and I could never feel safe walking the streets knowing everybody has a gun, including all drunktards in every bars/cafe around.

I think it's safe to say if you have to carry a gun in a bar then you probably just shouldn't be in a bar. That's kind of an appeal for common sense. However, that's an exception to my gun views. I would never register democrat even though I lean left on a lot of things because of the panzy way San Franciscans view guns.

If I would ask to sums up in a nutshell your views on gun, what it is? (and it has nothing to do with the republican/democrats thing), I am just curious because in Canada the overall view is quite different from the US in General, especially from the provinces located on the coasts.

[Gandalf]

The gun culture thing is something that I have never understood and to expand it by allowing drinkers in bars to carry a gun around is to me the height of lunacy. Drunk people are not rational and will likely the lose the plot at some point. To have a gun where only fists were before is going to lead to death instead of black eyes. It isn't the Wild West anymore, so it's a shame that the obsession with guns hasn't really evolved into anything more progressive and peaceful.

[Nameless]

The gun culture thing is something that I have never understood and to expand it by allowing drinkers in bars to carry a gun around is to me the height of lunacy. Drunk people are not rational and will likely the lose the plot at some point. To have a gun where only fists were before is going to lead to death instead of black eyes. It isn't the Wild West anymore, so it's a shame that the obsession with guns hasn't really evolved into anything more progressive and peaceful.

I quite agree, the US case is interesting because of the 2st Amendment, which at the time it has been written was more referring to white weapons such as knifes, bayonets etc as it were what peoples dominantly had. The Us was also wilder with the evil "Indians" and the real dangers of wilderness. Now, except in perhaps a few very rare places, Wilderness and Indians aren't a danger anymore and guns are neither what it used to be at all....
Personally, I would be all for a limitation of the caliber, bullets in loaders, ban of full automatic guns, prohibition to bear these in any public places and to have a full registry of who has what in order to control the whole process and avoid things like these gun fairs where peoples just can buy things without having to register nowhere neither show I.D if you look over 16.

[Kirkland Laing]

I think carrying a weapon should be compulsory. I think every American should have the ability to return fire in their everyday lives. Plus studies show that gun ownership helps moderate and end disputes effectively and quickly so a brief confrontation and it's on to the next class or whatever.