Reply #61: Do gun advocates try to make it easier for people to get ahold of guns? [View All]

[Tiggeroshii]

With looser gun laws come lower standards for safety and training. This is a direct result of policies that have spawned from gun advocates' fervent defense of the 2nd amendment, and the insistence that more people ought to have guns. "If the Virginia Tech students all had guns, that wouldn't have ever happened.'' Yes, because long before that ever happened they would probably fail to lock it up, or have it stolen, and a similar incident as this would have caused an even worse massacre. The fact is that making gun laws looser allows more people to get ahold of guns -both legally and illegally who SHOULDN'T have guns(such as the case above which was legal). And allowing more people to get ahold of these guns allows for more incidents to take place as standards are loosened.

Unless you advocate increasing standards for gun ownership so that incidents like this don't happen as often? Say, making it a prerequisite to be honed in safety and training before owning the gun? Then we might be more on the same page.