Debate about Gun Control

[Galen]

(09-28-2016, 12:54 AM)taramarie Wrote: Nations that have no freedom are corrupt due to govt having ultimate power over you but rules regarding keeping people safe is different. Like in NZ laws are there to protect people. Laws in NK for instance are to control and dictate what people do in their personal lives. So there is that difference. I do put safety over freedom due to the environment i was raised in. I won't lie, I have never handled a gun and do not intend to either. So I have that similarity with Eric. But I also am aware that some people do use it for defense and my concern is for people to use them wisely as well as at least try not to put it in the hands of a former violent felon (IF that is done over there). So safety first for me. What has caused firearm accidents to decline?

The cause of the decrease is not really known but I can tell you that if you take a gun safety course the instructor will be NRA certified.  Contrary to demonization by Eric the Obtuse, the NRA spends most of its time teaching shooting and with that comes safety training.  The NRA has been around since the 1871 and only got into lobbying since the sixties when gun control and bans started coming in.

If you take a course for a concealed weapon permit then it will be taught by an NRA certified instructor.  It should also be noted that women are quite welcome in both the courses and shooting sports.  Having been to some of them I can tell you the women are treated quite well.

Laws in the US are often written to make the exercise of constitutional rights difficult or impossible.  This has been done so often in the last fifty years that the response by default is no.  Another thing that was learned in the seventies and eighties was that no matter how much you gave up the gun ban people would want more and soon there would be nothing left.