[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by lostalex

i think these days it's more about the people in small towns who really don't feel like they get much support from the government anyways. they live in small country towns and they feel like they've been protecting themselves and taking care of themselves this long, why should the government now tell them that they are protected.

and honestly i don't blame them, the fact is America really is built by all these small towns that don't ask for help from the government, and they don't have these problems of violence that big american cities have, so when you tell them that the government is taking away their guns, they don't understand it, because they've been protecting themselves and running their own towns for so long, what right does the government have to come in and all of a sudden take their guns away when they aren't the ones having problems...

it's mostly big cities with big gun violence problems and some isolated incidents in suburbs... so to take their guns away feels like the government is restricting them even though they've been protecting themselves for hundreds of years...

I can see it from both sides.

that being said, i don't like guns, i've never owned a gun, i'd never buy a gun, i don't want to buy a gun, so i have no problem with the government taking guns away. i just don't believe that there's any way to take all the guns out of America, Pandora's box is already open.

I think a big problem is that too many Americans believe that gun control = taking all the guns away when it's more about making sure that they don't fall into the wrong hands. Most gun owners are responsible and wouldn't be affected by any changes to the laws because the laws would be targeted at people who shouldn't own a gun in the first place.