Recent study finds that more guns does not lead to less crime. What are your thoughts on the issue?

The only people that are interested in removing weapons from the possession of law abiding, non criminal, non murdering US citizens are the politicians that are puppets of the communists that are controlling the US Oral office today. When corruption rules so does censorship and the effort to remove the tools of maintaining a free society. Anything anti gun that is published in the USA comes from the communists and those criminals in this country that want to control without dealing with push back that can negate their efforts. When you have time you might wish to see if there are serious efforts in our grade schools to frighten children into thinking that unarmed citizens are happy freedom loving carefree souls. Oh and the lies, try on the load of manure that came out of China after Tiamniman Squares.. easy to mask the murder of citizens when the suppression is complete. Remember that mao failed to make the adults into easy converts to communism that is when he struck on the idea of indoctrinating the children.

All that is required is patience to allow the indoctrination to fully envelope 3 or four successive years of graduates... Why in the USA the infection of communism has been ongoing since the 1950s. Stalin promised destruction from the inside... looks like we are going to deal with commies that look a lot different that they did in 1970, but, on the up side, we do not have to fly 13,000 miles one way to remove the threat, just drive downtown, they are everywhere ..

a fake study, just like the "fact checkers "over the past three years have been commiie rats saying just what the leftist puppet controllers want the children to hear .. that way the women and children are suitably frightened and when interviewed they same the same thing as the "new study" paid for by the commies ..

Just because you are a supporter of the 2nd Amendment, it doesn't mean you are a denier of gun violence. Just because you want common sense gun laws, doesn't make you an anti-gun person. Every law should reflect the need, but too many people are screaming about their guns being taken. Anyone who is a responsible gun owner, knows that there are those who shouldn't have guns and that should be how to determine what guns are taken. Years of training and research went into the development/use of our weapons of war - even then we keep them secured. There should be a way to make sure that no one who is known to be volatile is able to aquire the gun legally, then all of the illegal guns would be easier to locate. I don't own a gun currently because I know that I would use it, but we're I to purchase one; it would be legal and it would be a hunting rifle or pistol. I know collectors that have M-16A1's and other former military issue weapons; none of them have ever allowed their weapons to even be touched by anyone unqualified...

Molon Labe

The idea of more guns is right in theory but the recent incident at Uvalde, Texas demonstrates that armed people, even law enforcement, that aren't willing to use them in defense of themselves or others not only increase their danger but also help skew the data on firearm accidents and crime prevention. I usually poll new permit students if they are willing to actually use the firearm in defense of themselves or others or do they intend to just display an empty gun in an attempt to just shew the assailant away. My blood and Goar approach as well as describing the possible legal complications has been pretty effective in weeding out the "I bought a gun and now I'm safe" crowd. One training aid that I picked up in a training film once, proved very effective. New applicants are taken to the range before class begins where a large can of tomatoes were placed on a table with a cardboard screen on three sides. The can is then shot splattering its contents on the cardboard. Class sized is usually reduced at that point. Accident or intentional the results are the same.

For some strange reason there is a belief that someone wants to take away your gun(s)! No one wants to take away your toy! But, reasonable control of weapons in our society is needed. The Brady bill was rather effective, but then again it was passed when St. Ronnie was shot and ended with the mass killing of kids!
Have you noticed that you have to pay a hefty car insurance bill but not a hefty gun insurance bill?

I would be interested in reading the study before condemning it. As long as we have a hodgepodge of state and local laws, the concept of one entity, be it city, county or state, ownership statistics fails to consider mobility. Oft cited Chicago gun violence fails to note the origin of the weapons. I sat on a Federal Grand Jury in California and invariably weapons used in cases we handled were either stolen or purchased out of state.

Hello hot button issue. :) Sure if we got rid of 99.999% of guns in the country we would almost certainly have less gun crime. Are we going to do that? No, probably not. Instead we will do something to get rid of some types of guns, but many, many others will be just as available as now and nothing will be solved. There may be some minor increase in background checks, but likely still full of holes. The right will point to it and say "see, gun control doesn't work", the left will say, "well we didn't get rid of enough of them." The violence will continue.

Personally I think we have to acknowledge we want to live in a society with guns and have to think about solutions that minimize the "unwanted side effects" of that desire. I also think we need to be more targeted in what we want to achieve. In my mind the problem is in mass shootings, not as much general gun crime.

Remember, Liberals never learn. That's why in our history, it was Liberals who failed us, then got good people killed.

I have never seen a gun with a self-actuating trigger.