Mass shooting in Las Vegas. 50+ dead

[Brian37]

While one is at it, they can search for the stats on how much gun control effects violent crime rates. 

I don't own a firearm, and don't really see the need for me to have one at this time.   However, if I did fee that I needed that kind of protection I would want it available.
However I do think that focusing on the means used, is ignoring the real issue which is a social problem.

Yep... start with recent examples, like Australia and work down to more ancient ones, like the UK.

Availability, ok, but not uncontrolled availability. You shouldn't be able to buy a gun like you buy a candy bar. And this is the real issue.
Somehow, people in the US feel the need to have guns, for whatever reason.
Somehow, that need is not present in Canada, in my eyes, the country more similar to the US.
What's the difference?

THANK YOU and somebody who gets it.

Nobody wants to make all firearms illegal by making sure the wrong people don't get them, even the right says they don't want the wrong people getting them. I am tired of them screaming when we agree the wrong people should not get them. 

They cant have it both ways and it seems they simply like the cake without the responsibility that it is not good to hand out certain objects like candy. We don't do that with booze or porn or cars.

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If you're a responsible gun owner, your gun will be kept away some place out of sight, out of easy reach and, most importantly, unloaded.

If you're confronted by a big dude in your home who has a knife, how much time do you think you have to go get the gun, load it and aim it well enough to use it?

How prepared are you to shoot another human being and very likely kill him?
Will you try to talk him out of coming for you, first? Just aim and threaten?
At close quarters, how long will it take for someone trained in combat to take that out of your hand and maybe aim it at you?


If you're not a responsible gun owner, you may keep it loaded and within easy reach... how long until you're mad at someone in your home and pull it out?
How long until someone else finds it and does something stupid with it?
How long until your future toddler finds it?
How long until your paranoid husband thinks you're having an affair?
How long until... someone does something stupid?

Which is more likely to happen in your lifetime? the big guy in your home with a knife, or someone doing something stupid?

Usually shooting the person isnt required. Simply pointing a gun (or shooting next to him) tends to be enough to get a burgler out of the house.

Agreed and perps whom rob you will often tell the police after the arrest if the person had not resisted. NO, that does not justify the crime but saying if someone wants your wallet odds are if you give them their wallet you will survive. 

But so is noise. If you hear a noise in the other side of your house, odds are if you shout, "I have the cops on my cell phone and they are on their way" you wont even need to pull a gun on them. 

For the same reason a bear will run in the woods if confronted by a loud noise rather than if you try to physically confront it.

It still remains having a firearm in the home is far more likely to hurt the people in the home than it would be used to successfully confront a complete stranger. The data does not lie.