artha-amberose:

I keep seeing posts talking about gun violence the outcry of people wanting guns to be banned or tightly controlled … And I will agree. It’s terrible that it keeps happening. The lives lost are tragic and my heart goes out to every family who has lost a loved one. Banning guns, however, is not the answer. I know many of you won’t agree, but at least hear me out before you start yelling at me and accusing me of advocating murder or something like that.

1 – Ban guns and restrict sales, criminals are still going to get them, and people won’t be able to have their own weapons to fight back. Registering your firearms, and getting your background checked is very fair! My husband and I own several, all of them registered and fully legal. Making something illegal does not, at all, keep it out of people’s hands. It doesn’t even make it that much harder. I mean, look how well the “war on drugs” is going! If somebody wants something, they will find a way to get it.

2 – The guns are not the problem. People are. Many people are miserable and desparate. They are taught to ignore bullies and never fight back, never defend themselves and told they are a “wuss” if they show emotion or any reaction. This causes feelings to bottle up inside, until it bursts out in violence and aggression. This could all be avoided if kids were encouraged to show their feelings and teachers actually did something about the bullying problem in schools. Instead of helping people who may have these urges, they are made worse through abuse and horrible treatment. The broken justice system makes it worse. These people need guidance and rehabilitation in a place where they can’t hurt themselves or others. Even the worst of people, with some work, can become a better person. But with the state of things in America, nobody has that chance. The government is becoming more and more oppressive, and people continue to have their individuality crushed. This is driving people who could have been helped to do horrible things they would never have done if they weren’t forced to crush and stifle everything they are. They are pushed to the brink, and resort to doing horrible things that destroy their own lives and the lives of numerous people around them.

3 – Most people who own guns are smart and safe about it. My husband and I are among that majority. We own several guns, including an AR15, two 22 caliber M40’s, a Savage Arms hunting rifle, and three powerful hand guns. We would never dream of hurting anybody with them. We love going out to the mountains to the areas designated for shooting and firing off rounds into targets. It’s a lot of fun, and surprisingly stress relieving. We always make sure we can’t accidentally hurt anybody who might be out shooting as well. We keep them where they won’t fall into the wrong hands, maintain them so they remain safe to fire, and always communicate clearly with those we take with us to the range. Most gun owners are exactly like us, safety of ourselves and those around us first and foremost on our minds. Don’t let the sins of a few ruin things for the many.

In summary, taking away guns is not going to do anything for gun violence it isn’t going to change anything. Gun violence is a symptom. No doctor in their right mind will simply stifle the symptoms… They look for a deeper cause, and try to treat the disease itself. That’s what really needs to be done.

You want to help stop gun violence? You want things to change? Be a voice. Take action where you can, no matter how small. It only takes a spark to start a fire. Be kind to those around you. Encourage people to talk about their feelings instead of bottling them up. Educate people on gun safety. Communicate with your children and treat them like human beings, because that is what they are. Living breathing humans with their own minds and desires and needs. Let them pour their heart out to you. Don’t let them get to the point where they are so desparately in pain that they feel killing is the only option. Do not judge people for being different. Embrace them for who they are, and encourage those around you to do the same. There are a lot of shitty people in the world, but don’t let the shitty people destroy who you are inside.

Humans are emotional and social creatures, and more and more our very nature is crushed until we lash out in pain. It needs to change if such violence will ever come to an end. And change starts with the individual.

opticbread:

opticbread:

gun control is so needed and common sense, we just need to

• [10 ideas that are already the law]
• [7 ideas that would violate basic human rights]
• [3 ideas that prove OP only knows about guns via movies]
• [4 ideas that shows that they only know about gun crime through large-scale media coverage of mass shootings]
• [6 instances of using vague scare-words like “assault weapon” and “high capacity magazine”]
• [obligatory reference to countries that have strict gun laws that ignore every other factor, such as population, population density, culture, procurement of illegal firearms, existing gun crime levels, and shifts from guns to other, equally lethal weapons after the gun ban]

It’s so simple! I don’t know why people don’t agree with this

Every reply to this post that disagrees with it is some remix of

• “So, you think CHILDREN should keep DYING, you SICK FREAK???”
• The fun yin/yang of “why don’t you teach people about how guns work so their ideas are better informed?” and “the last thing I want to do is learn about guns, I already know I’m right”
• “how dare you say I’m uninformed about this issue?” Followed by them demonstrating exactly how uninformed they are on the issue [take a fucking shot for everyone talking about banning AR15s]
• Casual desire to violate human rights that they would declare others to be inhuman monsters for displaying if it was about something they like
• Inability to grasp that people wishing to commit violent crimes would not follow the law when attempting to obtain a firearm because they’re already planning to break the law and kill someone