I have guns myself and despite being mostly liberal, I do support the 2nd amendment. Guns themselves are not bad, and I am a firm believer in being able to protect yourself against a threat. Obviously sometimes these guns fall into the hands of people who have no business having one, whether legally or illegally, and I wish there was an easy solution to that.

Truth be told, while I do enjoy target shooting, if there were a way to absolutely guarantee that no criminal could have a gun or at least that it would be practically unheard of, I would probably be okay with changing the laws and removing them from the U.S. But as it is, that cat is out of the bag and I honestly think that isn't even an option for the U.S. I'm okay with that too but as I said before, I wish there were a solution to keeping them out of the hands of the extremely mentally ill or dangerous.

There are way to many guns in circulation in this country for any new gun laws to have any effect . Strict gun laws should have been inacted many many years ago

Guns are not as essential now a days, with our food being processed at slaughter houses. However, those not in the cities, those that hunt for food, need them. They are also pretty useful for protection against wilflife and criminals. You need three types of weapons. A rifle to hunt with, a shotgun for hunting and protection, and a handgun for protection.

I see the problem in how the wrong people (criminals, mentally unstable, terrorists—yes, we have those in the US) have access to ammunition to fill their unnecessary semi and automatic weapons. As with the rest of the consumerism movement, I believe we need to quit producing excess products.

Guns are evil-we need gun background checks, stop selling guns to mentally ill and gunstocks should be outlawed. I hate guns.

Hey, the sooner we accept the reality that humans will always commit aggression against each other the more ready we will be to defend ourselves should the be any against us or our loved ones. That's why I believe that under certain circimstances guns are necessary

The title of the post is do you like guns. My answer is yes. I enjoy shooting them, collecting them, tinkering with them. I particularly like old guns, and perhaps the more unusual guns.

The gun laws in the US vary a great deal depending on where you live. I'm not sure that the states with stricter regulations are much safer than those with less strict regulations.
Two thirds of the thirty odd thousand annual gun deaths are suicides. One way to reduce them would be to restrict access to guns. I'm sure many of those people would try other methods, but they would be less successful. There are very few attempted suicides using a firearm. Firearms are very effective.
Most of the rest are homicides, accidents account for a very small percentage. Half the victims are young men, one third are young black men. So there is some validity to the argument that addressing underlying societal issues would significantly reduce gun deaths, both homicides and suicides, and injuries.
Hence, if you want to reduce gun violence, repeal the 2nd amendment. It's a quite simple procedure, described in just a single paragraph, Article V, of the Constitution. Simple, but not easy. And then you'd have to confiscate the ones already out there, good luck with that. Or we can work on root cause mitigation for violence prevention, stronger mental health care, addressing poverty, homelessness and unemployment.

Most of the other stuff: waiting periods, magazine restrictions, ammo limits, bans on certain features can only have a very limited effect. Background checks don't do any harm, and may do some good.

Guns are a tool same as a hammer. It can be used in a positive way such as to defend yourself or in a negative way and hurt someone for some unjustified reason. The hammer isn't going to fly off the table and smash someone in the head 10 times killing them, just as the gun isn't somehow going to load , aim and fire at someone killing them. This requires some human interaction or carelessness. Cars kill thousands of people every year. Nobody is trying to make traffic laws tougher or outlaw cars altogether . Hell In the military the taught me how to kill with a rock or a stick, my bare hands even.. People kill people .. not inanimate objects. Man has always killed one another and they did it before guns were ever invented...

I oppose the wrong kind of gun owner. I oppose the sort of gun owner that would come up to me at the gun range a long time ago, and say stuff about what (who) was wrong with America and that i should "join".

The first hand cannon was made for killing people. Guns are made for killing people. To hear some kinds of gun owners speak, they go to a store with a credit card, and they come out incapable of error, immune to human weakness, and never miss. Oh, and they are also ready to drop someone, and of course will come out on top in a gun battle against "thugs" and other enemies.

I grew up on a gigantic military base, so I grew up around guns. Bombs, fighter jets. tanks, you name it. Lots of it I watched go from a drafting table to a junkyard. The money and focus spent on killing each other is ridiculous. To what end? For all of the citizen crimestopping going on, all of a sudden you have nazis on the street with torches, and peaceful folk all over the place starting to having to give up being peaceful. Looking pretty grim. The pro-gun side also reacts oddly when you bring up school shootings, what they do about their internal problems with mental health stuff, or sedition. They are unable to hold a serious debate together on it. The videos the NRA has been putting out are the best example of that. Its a mass psychosis or something, combined with an oxytocin addiction that people get from pulling that trigger. Cant discourage shooting people enough.

I'm in the UK. I've only ever used firearms during my time with the army cadets. I have to say, it was exhilarating. That makes me worry; you need a certain amount of self-control to prevent that exhilaration from taking over. Some people don't have that control.

Also, the USA has a mass shooting every single day. That, more than anything, shows that while there will always be people with the desire to kill, free access to firearms makes it that much easier for them.

I own quite a few guns and enjoy target practice as well. These laws that are often referred to as "common sense legislation" are positively absurd and do nothing to deter the criminal element, who don't even acknowledge said laws to begin with. Alas, those on the progressive left will never learn, and after every mass shooting they echo the same meaningless unintelligible nonsense in the hopes of convincing a majority of Americans that they are actually doing something when in fact it's the direct opposite. I'm not convinced by the gun controllers arguments, and with any and all indication never will be. @Trajan61

Guns are like religion, both dangerous.

That fellow Marcus-Angelus presents a perfect example of how dangerous a gun really is. A couple of his loved ones were wiped out by religious fanatics. There, in that instance what is more dangerous? a gun or religion in the twisted minds of fanatics? Had his relatives be armed would the have perished in the hands of these fanatics? Guns definitely have a place in society. Self defense is a birth right that no one should be able to take away from anybody

I believe in knives all day

I'd like to vote, but the options are somewhat "all over the place" since they are not mutually exclusive, so I'm not sure how anyone could select one option. You're also "leading the witness" with the way the question is phrased

Harleyman, a wide man once said, "Never argue with a fool in publiC, because peop0le may not knmow which one is which." I have said all I have to say on the subject of the dcurrent gun insanity in our country. .Keep beating your gums in the wind if you want. I don't give a damned what you say.

I don't believe in guns, still there are guns in a loved one residence, I don't believe in the bible, still if I look around I may find one somewhere, show no interest in nra regulations or what they stand for, same with the bible.... I do see the results... the damage done by guns or by religion, understanding guns or religion won't change the results. I don't try to de-convert gun owners or bible worshippers. They are on their own. Victims of their own devices. But it pains me of the results. The Lives Lost!!! No I don't like guns, I don't like the results of guns.

I own guns they are a necessary tool on my farm, I had no problem registering them, storing them safely or being licensed as an owner. I have hunted in the past for food and sport but, now I only hunt when I have a problem predator.
I have had handguns in the past but, I found them useless as a farm tool and yes, they were licensed as well.
I have never considered them as a means of self defence against another human, why would I ever point a gun at a human.
The US needed to register all gun owners and ban ownership of many types of guns just as most intelligent nations have it is just common sense; oh, wait we are talking about America.

I'm all for restricting hunting, some animals are in danger of extinction as it is but i"m all for using guns for self defense

we shouldn't still be having war and killing each other anymore. maybe there is the odd use for guns

We don't have a lot of gun crime here, and have never had school kids murdered in their place of learning. But I am sure the right to have them is far more important.