You may have a love or hatred of Guns but if you read on perhaps you may change your mind...perhaps not.
Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via reasoning or debate, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that's it.
In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some. I am only making a point on hand guns as I am well aware their are other weapons that can that can remove force from the menu.
When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force. I have the ability to resist your force.
The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender. You may not like guns but you cannot deny that in the hands of a trained individual it does even the playing field.
There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we'd be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a [armed] mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger's potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat--it has no validity when most of a mugger's potential marks are armed.

People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that's the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.

Then there's the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser. There is also a measure of control to the would be attacker because he/she knows that they may pay for their act of force with their life.

People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don't constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level.

The gun is the only weapon that's as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weight lifter. It simply wouldn't work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn't both lethal and easily employable.

When I carry a gun, I don't do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I'm looking to be left alone from those who would want to cause me personal harm through force. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded ande reasoned with. I don't carry it because I'm afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn't limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation...and that's why carrying a gun is a civilized act. what are your thoughts on guns?
This is my one provision. The right to possess arms in the US is a constitutional right. I support it. I do think that you should have training and a liscense to prove responsible gun ownership. We need one to drive a car so we should certainly have one to weild a weapon.

FORCE IS NEVER THE ANSWER!!!
IT'S NEVER A GOOD THING TO FORCE SOMEBODOY TO DO SOMETHING AGAINST HIS OWN WILL..THAT'S THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE.THEY CAN'T DO ANYTHING WITHOUT GUNS OR FORCE..

i personally think that guns aren't a way to solve anything in this world of ours. but we as humans don't think that way. i mean look at the war, we are using guns and force so americans can have oil.
kids are killing kids with guns because they play these games that are so violent that that's all they know as real. people don't comprehend that that's what it is, fantasy violence. most people think that the fantasy violence is real, they can't differentiate realism from fantasy. i blame that on the media and how they perceive things.
then you have those who are brought up in it. the kids who grew up in the streets because their parents refuse to raise them. they know nothing about addition and subtraction, division and multiplication, but they know about the streets, guns, how to shoot them and everything like that. i personally think that we need to look at the parents with this situation and say "so, what have you taught your child today?" you'd be surprised by the answer they say.
so i don't agree with the guns, the unnecessary violence going on in this world. i believe in a moral upbringing, mother and father TOGETHER, teaching their son/daughter how to be a human and not some "statistic". i'm saddened by what i see just in my everyday life, kids barely know how to add, but they know how to shoot an ak47 like a pro. they are so concerned with what gang they are going to be in. they need to be in an academic mentality all the time. the world doesn't need a "gang banger", the world needs doctors, lawyers, nurses, teachers, good honest people.
i pray for that everyday, GOD will answer our prayers!!!!

It's not the gun killing people...it's the people killing people.
Everyone could have a gun if they are able to carry it with respect (both for the machine and for others life).
But: both does not happen enough.
There are more than 1 example of people having these things "lying around" in their home and soon everybody will be crying over a dead 8 year old, shot by a 10 year old who just wanted to show what a cool guy Daddy is.
The sale of arms (not only guns) should be strictly controlled. Otherwise: Hello Columbine Highschool!

I say NO GUN.. if i realy needed to i'd kill you with my bare hands damn it.. why bring a gun into the deal..

I have lived in cities of the US and worked as a social psychologist in the areas most often identified as crime ridden. I never carried a weapon(except for my date book/planner). I was never mugged,robbed or threatened.(I had
many offers to share a wine from a wine bottle in a bag or special deals for watches and leather goods). Much of the fear of violence is from the media concentrating on stranger initiated violence, while the vast majority of violence is committed by persons known to the victims.I feel most at risk when I travel in the suburbs or wealthier areas.My appearance as a stranger with long hair makes me a target for the "paranoid" residents.