Should concealabe weapons like pistols and military weapons be banned from all private citizens?

No they shouldn’t.

No, they should not. The government has no right to infringe on the right to bear arms.

To answer your question;

No, have you ever noticed that the highest rate of gun crimes are in areas of the strictest gun control laws. Restricting guns actually increases your chances of being a victim of gun violence. Since the bad guys know they are the only ones who have guns.

Ahhh… Hell no! If that day ever comes to pass, expect to lose your freedom of speech soon after.

To counter your points:

1. It says “well armed militia”. If you understand that the 2nd amendment is a safety net to allow citizens to retake government if needed, you cannot reasonably conclude that musket-wielding citizens are “well-armed” against current day weaponry. Certainly limits should be applied but the question is where is the cut-off. A rocket launcher or full-auto is an obvious extreme; a simple semi-automatic sidearm or rifle is not.

2. Based on your opinion, you would suggest citizens keep a rifle tucked under the bed with ammunition nearby in case they are attacked? What about protecting children? Or does the rifle have to be locked in a gun case/safe and you have to try and sneak to it when an intruder is in your home? I’m not sure I understand your logic but as someone who believes we have the right to have a handgun, if, god forbid, I ever had to defend myself in my home I would much rather use a handgun so that I stop someone with less odds of killing them versus putting a 4-inch hole in them with a hunting rifle. Additionally, a 9mm or AK47 are not “concealed” weapons or “military” weapons. And it goes back to point #1, “well armed”, not solely for personal protection although those weapons do provide that as well. No offense but you’re trying to make a bad point but stretching reality.

3. While I stopped hunting many years ago, I still eat meat that was hunted for and that’s part of the reason many people do hunt. Call them “weirdo’s” if it helps you sleep at night but I fail to see why this point was included in your list outside of saying you can’t shoot a squirrel or rabbit with the shotgun/rifle you have for hunting deer. Many people carry small caliber sidearm.

4. You are not advocating gun control laws; you appear to be advocating even more laws because your mindset is one that says “crime is still happening so these laws must not be enough” without considering that maybe those laws go completely ignored by criminals and will never help. I will agree with you on one minor point. Not every citizen should have a gun. No way! If they don’t feel comfortable around them and refuse to be trained and educated in use and how to respect the weapon, they should never, ever own one. And you are correct in that there is no way to know who will ever snap and do something horrible. Check history and you’ll find people killed with knifes, forks, fire, electricity and cars. Should we all eat raw food with our hands in the dark after walking home from work? That would have stopped those crimes! Maybe we should consider it.

5. You confuse me. You agree but then spin it back toward something else you disagree with to make it seem like this point is disagreeable too. That’s called “spin” but I’ll ignore it and try to address your point. First off, you mention “organized crime” and it makes me laugh. Do you think gang bangers get weapons from the mob? No, they get them from someone who stole them! If laws always prevented crime, they wouldn’t have stole the gun in the first place let alone made (illegal) use of it later.

Where you hit a low point in your argument is school shootings. Believe me, NOBODY who supports gun ownership in the US finds that crap acceptable and excusable. NOBODY! And you know this. Had these people not committed suicide and been tried in court, they would have been found to be insane or having a mentally illness that contributed to their actions.

As a society we can not make the world one giant rubber/padded room to protect us from the actions of those people. Those same ill persons could take your life with a list of everyday objects ranging from a baseball bat to a tire iron to a well-aimed punch in the proper place. You cannot protect yourself from unexplainable evil by fearing everything in the world. That seems to be the objective here: I fear the actions of these people and the potential of people like them so I think we should do away with anything that could cause us harm.

Who ever expected planes to be used for terrorism? Should we now outlaw flying and seize all aircraft to protect us? If your position on handguns in firm, you would have to apply it to here also and agree that flying should be banned. Silly huh?

The key isn’t banning items or removing them from society, it’s educating ourselves to detect these ill citizens before they can act. There are always signs and they’re always talked about AFTER a tragedy instead of acted on BEFORE the tragedy.

If you are open-minded, I invite you to look into the studies done on crime rates in RTC (right-to-carry) states. The FBI has a pretty good one actually. If you read it and try to remain neutral, you’ll likely understand the difference between a “hard target” and “soft target” and how it clearly deters crime including loony people looking to commit murder out of rage or illness.