How many DPers own or support guns?

Probably protecting the 1st Amendment.

 

Guns or violence wouldn't protect the first amendment.

 

The 2nd Amendment IS the guarantee of the 1st Amendment. Without the 2nd Amendment, there is nothing that can *insure* the continued existence of the 1st.

 

i support guns all the way

 

Make a list of death by knives and IEDs in those countries compared to the US. I met Commander Simon Foy a few years ago in London and he stated there were more murders commited per capita in the UK by knives than by Guns in th US. I do not know if this is true but that was what was stated.

 

Mexico has gun control and how does anyone beleive that they are safer in Mexico than the US?

 

A much more accurate comparison of overall violence could be demonstrated with this data:

(in 2001)

UK: 4.6 violent deaths per 100,000
USA: 7.9

Obviously then, what the UK lacks in gun homicides, it nearly makes up for with other weapons.

If you break down regionally it gets even more interesting:

Northern Ireland is the least violent part of the UK, but North Dakota is much less violent per person.

Only 10 American states are more violent than Switzerland or Scotland, but Washington D.C. is six times more violent than either of them.

The only sound conclusion one can draw from this data is that gun control law seems to have little to do with the overall violence rate in a nation. Washington D.C. has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation, yet by far the worst violence. Many European nations with strict gun control have low violence rates, yet many nations with strict gun control have twice the violence or even ten times the violent murder rate of the United States.

 

I own several guns

 

I've got two guns right here, ready to lock and load.

*flexes*

 

You selling tickets to that gun show too?

haha

 

I don't own a Gun and also don't support them.

 

I don't have one and don't support it.

 

Shooting is my passion, obsession, possesion. I shot many rounds of revolver, SLR, double barreled gun.
Which gun you like.

 

I never tried shooting with a real gun, only air guns

 

We cant keep any guns in our homes , the Maoists took what we had in village

 

I have though have not killed anyone yet

 

Gun usage is strictly controlled in my country and never used a real one. Of course, played with a lot of toy guns when I was a kid

 

Well, If Hunting guns count then YES, I did

and Don't we have a many pages, same titled thread like this ?!

 

I think this does not applies to me; i wonder why do one need to do that unless he/she is in forces