Comments on: GUN CONTROL & GOVT HEALTH CARE: WHAT DO THEY HAVE IN COMMON?

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:15:21 +0000

If we were to outlaw guns, then criminals would find other means to kill — say knives. So then, let’s say knives become outlawed. What then? Outlaw knives? Okay, so we outlaw them. But then it’s baseball bats . . . then bows and arrows . . . then on, and on. It would have no end. So instead of trying to fix a symptom, let’s back up and look at the problem.

The problem is, most people are not taught respect, responsibility, discipline, and general morality at all. In fact, such concepts are ridiculed. However, if everyone were taught these things from an early age, they could be trusted to make rational, sound judgment with everything from nuclear warheads to guns to their own life decisions (namely, health care).

This is just another liberal/progressive/socialist attempt to slap a bandaid over the boo-boo instead of applying antiseptic. And that bandaid usually comes along with a ball and chain.

By: Marc Brown

Marc Brown — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:18:29 +0000

Well fishydude, the fact that people die of other things does not make any one major cause of death, suffering and cost to the country any less valid as a topic for public health control. The US has lost more than a million Americans to guns since the late 1960s. That’s not a price worth paying for some imaginary boogie men.

By: fishydude

fishydude — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:52:22 +0000

@marc, There are many activities and products that contribute to far more deaths than guns do. Pools kill more children. Cars driven by drunks kill 40,000 people a year but no one is trying to outlaw cars.
In country where guns are illegal, the government and criminals murder more people with gun. Guns are illegal in Mexico and we read every day how successful that is in reducing murder.
In England, criminals just knock on the door and wait for the owner to open the door.
Legally owned guns saves thousands of lives every year in the US. Legally owned guns kept foreign enemies from just waltzing in.
Get your fact straight before you argue against a constitutional right.

By: Marc Brown

Marc Brown — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 06:05:38 +0000

Yeah right – guns in the US are such a public health success aren’t they – only 32,000 killed a year and 110,000 shot.