Thread: We have too many guns on our streets

I remember a few years ago, an article was written in the herald about gun control and the viability of allowing people to have Semi Auto's available to the public, they interviewed a range officer from a small bore target shooting club from somewhere down Hamilton ways and he said : there are no need for anyone to have any more than a bolt action rifle, semi autos should be outright banned' (I'm paraphrasing there a wee bit). I remember reading the article and thinking to myself - you bastard, running a range and stabbing other gun enthusiasts/owners in the back. His self centered opinion only highlighted the limit of his interests, it didn't reflect any "benefits" for society, it was just him hating on what he didn't care for. And people are like that, they have no empathy for the enjoyment or freedom of others to enjoy something that doesn't affect them. Much like Ducan ' anti-gun' Garner on radiolive a.k.a. Duncan Donut, he suggested that target shooting was not a legitimate sport, because you're not using the gun to kill anything, (he apparently does some hunting up north). Thus target shooting should not be given any consideration when looking at the gun ownership issue.

We do need cohesion in order to keep the status quo and heat on the Government. I personally do not own an M.S.S.A. or a Pistol, but will show protest just as vigorously as I would if A-Cat we're being targeted to see them regulated as the are now and not sent to the scrap heap, in defense of my fellow gun owners, who, like me are not the issue the vast majority of these circumstances. The public at large need to see our cohesion and the calm, well thought through logic, that defends our wholly legitimate reasons for firearm ownership.

As an analogy - Speed kills more people than guns in this country. If a boy racer is clocking 180km/hr down the road and kills three children walking to school, we don't automatically jump to the conclusion that all Nissan Skylines should be banned, we all know that the Nissan skyline is a fast moving car, favoured by some speed demons, and on top of that why do you possibly need a motor vehicle that can make speeds in excess of 110km/hr, truth is you don't. People use these fast cars to evade police after committing crimes, use them while intoxicated and even some have been used as mobile meth labs. So why should law abiding owners of Nissan Skylines be held responsible for the actions of a criminal? If you agree that this analogy should become the law, you can certainly sit there and say - Yes Semi Auto's should go.

Criminals are not going to in anyway shape or form going to be halted in the slightest. They are by definition are defiant of the laws of this land. Gun registration is the ambulance at the bottom of the hill, it's only useful after the crime has been committed, and if you agree with it, even knowing that - Ok, I have no beef with that. I suspect it will be costly, resource hungry, and worse yet, you may be waiting in line for some time as the headhunters get all their serial numbers recorded, oh sorry, that last one might not be very likely.

I am for gun control, the gun control we already have. I am in favour of coming down tougher on organised crime, gangs, hard drugs (meth) and for customs searching a few more than 10 containers a day (a few more containers could be done, without delaying us all on our next warehouse purchase).