Do handguns make it too easy to kill someone?

people kill people

Just definitely easier to defend yourself!

DO CARS MAKE IT EASIER TO GET DRUNK AND KILL PEOPLE ? ? ? ? ?

Some people need killing!

hmm,, or how about this thought ..

me , being a legal carry permit citizen , and I do arm my self, does that same hand gun make it easy or hard for a criminal to kill me ??

to the sheep , all other 's are a wolf,,

Yes of course it is...Bring a knife to a gun fight,bring a gun to a fight see what happens...

It's easier, for sure. Anyone who had to kill someone would prefer to do it with a gun than have to actually get close and personal and stab the person.

Even when playing video games, shooting the imaginary people is very simple for me, but I still feel a slight tinge of disgust when I actually need to take a knife and stab a imaginary someone in a game. Especially if whatever I'm stabbing is threatening to my game character.

I've had nightmares were a psychopath has been chasing me and trying to kill me and my only weapon to defend myself was a dull knife, and the moment I've had to push the knife through the psychopath's body has always terrified me.

However, guns have been invented and now that can't be reversed. So for defense purposes and hunting and so forth, guns still still be used.

Japan didn't try to invade the US during WWII, because they were certain that every home had multiple firearms and people trained in their use. While my response doesn't pertain strictly to handguns the point is when those who wish to do harm believe there are armed and trained people about they are less likely to harm others.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist.

Yeah, I'd feel much better if all the people that were killed by guns had just been pushed out of windows.

NO.... it takes the HUMAN behind to do the deed , plan it out .. its not the gun...... If someone wants to kill they can do it in many different ways.... Example: the shootings in Colorado , Arizona and the most recent one could have been accomplished with a bomb, several well thrown grenades and more. Look at how many he could have killed with simply STABBING or CHOPPING rampage. He could have waited outside in a big truck or car and ran MANY down while crossing in mass to get to their cars.... Killing can be accomplished in MANY ways... as we all know.. Have everyone forgot so soon 911 ????

It's a cultural thing.

One could actually do a more efficient job of killing others with a good deer rifle and a hidden lair.

Guns don't kill people; but they sure help

People were killing people for tens of thousands of years before guns with spears, daggers and arrows

So? You don't really want to answer the question, do you?

Guns dont kill people. People kill people. If they took our guns away, we would just start using baseball bats or tire irons.

Of course!

There would be no mass murders if we had to depend on our fists in a cinema or Sikh temple!

Wrong ...... bomb, grenades, stabbings and how about Poison gas bombs...... not so uncommon really. They can be bought or even HOME MADE.....

Okay in addition to high powered guns, bombs and poison gas would be very effective! Not to mention nuclear weaponry!

I don't believe that someone with a very deadly knife could be quite as effective as Holmes was with his guns!

Not really....But a handgun is a must to have to defend yourself and your family from home invaders.If you feel that you don't need a gun in the house.Proudly display your opinion for all the world to see!

It's the person and act behind that trigger that kills. Same as knives, other objects, that can end a life.

They certainly don't make it more difficult.

It's not so much the "handguns" that are killing people, it's HATE-FILLED AGENDAS! It's Rush Limbaugh, it's Michelle Bachmann, it's White Supremacists, "Raghead haters", it's ANYONE who spreads a radical agenda aimed at other "types" of beliefs or people than they themselves want to accept! Definitely UN-Jesus-like! (...are all those mentioned above)!

A free nation makes it easy for the unbalanced mental cases to reek havoc. It is a price we pay for the freedoms we have. We are a throw away society when it comes to people. Most states have few mental facilities and we spend more money on corporate recovery and foreign aid than we do on helping our citizens. So if they don't pay enough taxes and contribute to the high priest of the IRS they are not needed in this Nanny democracy.
Bottom line don't blame and inanimate object it is user controlled.

Do you mean, "does it make it easier to murder someone"? IMO it doesn't matter. Someone bent on murder will committ murder.

Not necessarily. A person with a gun is harder to stop. An unarmed man or woman doesn't have as much of a chance of defending themselves against such an attack.

I'm glad you agree with me. An unarmed person is equal to a victim of crime.

Being funny, eh? I don't agree with you.

I don't mind.

I have yet to here about a gun killing a person, but I have seen people killing people.

Easier...but it is never easy to kill someone if you are a stable person.

Most killings are among friends and family members when the heat of anger clouds rational thinking, and the weapon is usually a pistol. Some of these people are felons, who have lengthy arrest records, incidents of past agressive behavior, mental disorders etc. James Holmes, the Colorado shooter, was being treated for homicidal tendencies. He easily passed back ground checks which enabled him to reign terror . Because of patient-doctor privilege, that doctor never alerted authorities. Perhaps that should get another look.

I am a gun advocate and gun owner but am also for very stringent background checks and longer waiting periods in addition to training sessions before permit is allowed.

Holmes didn't know those people he killed. Laughner didn't know Giffords. Roop didn't know Rainey. Hinkley didn't know Lennon. All this senseless violence is atrocious and America can never be great again as long as this killing is allowed to continue.

They give you the opportunity to defend yourself.

Or to kill someone in cold blood.

That can easily be done with a knife, poison, a blunt force object. There are many different ways to kill someone, a handgun is just one of them.

No Owning a handgun could prevent someone from running up in your home, as those communities with more gun ownership experience lower crime rates. A suspect is less likely to attack or reach for a firearm on someone that could possess one as well. The strongest argument for gun possession comes from both Thomas Jefferson, and a Texas woman. I will list her name once I find the video. Susanna Grattia Hupp.

You will never do away with guns and handguns in particular , America is armed and will be tillthe end of time . A pistol is nothing compared to a shotgun with an extension tube and 00 buckshot . One round can kill and kill a half dozen people so you would have to dissarm a huge segment of the population and guns rights is so ingrained in the American people nothing short of civil war could accomplish that .

This you wont like the gun owner will eventually have to kill off the republicans even though they squak the most about gun owners right . They will be the ones to reduce our freedoms the most .

Not as long as the human animal is a tool maker No gun? Knives, cast iron frying pans, axes, machetes, ball peen hammers, the list goes on and on. MAN is the one that kills, inanimate objects are only tools.