I have mixed views regarding the matter.
On the one hand, I feel that guns should be legal, so that you may protect yourself and your family from, say a burglar. Home invasion is almost a bad a crime as murder, meaning, that if the burglar is willing to risk serving the sentence for breaking into your house, that person might always be willing to take your life in the process. Also, if everyone were to own a gun, as I stated in the thread regarding the whole university shooting, crime rates would drop, since a majority of the criminals out there would not want to risk getting killed while performing a crime.
On the other hand, I feel that they should be illegal, since they do cause alot of problems in this world. If it weren't for guns, alot of people would still be alive right now, including the students killed in the shooting yesterday. Guns can cause alot of problems for those who use them irrespossibly or illegally.
Those are my views. At most, I feel that laws that have to do with firearms should be stricter, in order to prevent some unnecessary violence in our society.
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