[speaker001:] okay on a scale of one to ten where do you stand and why
[speaker002:] well I guess I stand on uh on probably ten for no uh restrictions I uh recently just moved to Texas from uh South Dakota and Nebraska and I guess in terms of gun control I've always uh been raised with the uh idea in the Constitution that uh citizens had a right to bear arms and I realize that probably way back when when the Constitution was written it probably regarded uh more uh of a national defense uh than anything else but uh on the other hand too uh people then uh needed to use firearms for um survival in terms of uh food and uh I was raised uh
[speaker001:] yes true
[speaker002:] you know hunting all the time I lived on the farm and and um you know enjoy hunting and I guess I have uh some problems with uh being restricted to um owning a gun for you know hunting purposes mainly
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] and um it scares me a little bit to think that they would begin restricting gun control to the point where um eventually we may not be able to have that right any more
[speaker001:] yeah I can I can understand that I was raised in Oklahoma and course being Oklahoman and Texan uh you know hunting the hunting and everything and I'm used to relatives and my father and my husband having guns and all and I I did used to be all in favor of it but it's all of a sudden it's starting to get really scary with these gangs yet I think I would vote a one if I thought that it would be nation wide and they can guarantee no one would have a gun no crooks nothing but because I know that's not gonna happen then I have to I'm probably right up there about an eight
[speaker002:] yeah it uh moving to this area of course it happens everywhere but um I guess we're pretty naive coming from small towns uh in the midwest and then uh moving to a larger city where there are drive-by shootings and uh there seems like killing for no reason at all and uh
[speaker001:] well it it just seems like in the past three or four years it has just gotten so much worse than it was there's always been a certain amount of crime in your you know your urban areas and I know we lived in Chicago for seven years and of course it was definitely there so when we first moved here it wasn't as bad as this it's you know it's just getting all of a sudden so much worse I don't know whether it's due to the drugs and the uh drug kings that are here and and uh Jamaican drug kings coming in I don't know whether that's it or street gangs I don't know what the answer is I know that it's scary and yet I hate the government constantly telling me what I can do and what I can't do and that's basically what the gun control would end up being
[speaker002:] I I think so and and there's always the uh the old uh saying that keeps coming up that if a person wants a gun bad enough they'll they'll get one and uh and then uh yeah
[speaker001:] well it's very true it's not the law-abiding citizen that you know is is dangerous with the gun it's the ones that are going out and stealing it and I said I think the only way I would be
[speaker002:] yep
[speaker001:] in big favor of gun control is if they could absolutely guarantee that nobody would have them and I think that would almost have to go with armies too I mean that has to be almost worldwide which we know would never ever happen
[speaker002:] yeah yeah that's for sure
[speaker001:] because even if you said okay you know armed forces could have them some idiot would come out and sell it to somebody on the street to make a quick buck
[speaker002:] yeah and uh
[speaker001:] and uh
[speaker002:] and you know uh I suppose um years ago way back when uh when uh they had the Revolutionary War and people decided that they uh were fed up with the government uh if they didn't have a way to uh to fight back they would have been in big trouble
[speaker001:] that's that's very true very true who knows we maybe want to overthrow the government I know if somebody doesn't do something uh
[speaker002:] well the way things are going
[speaker001:] what about uh what do you think of this this uh law that they're putting into effect that you have to wait X number of days before you can uh carry the gun or buy you know actually purchase the gun
[speaker002:] well you know they introduced some gun control back when I was a teenager I believe in terms of uh every gun you had bought had to be licensed I believe
[speaker001:] yes
[speaker002:] and uh you know that didn't bother me uh too much and so I guess it depends um if there are some statistics that show that uh that people uh commit crimes on the spur of the moment