What law enforcement will tell you is that in a terrorist act or even an act of people who are involved in crime, such as a drug gang, that they tend to get their weapons illegally.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think, for me, anybody who is a terrorist should not have access to firearms.
It's not law-abiding gun owners that are the problem here - it's Islamic terrorists.
Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
When you loot or behave violently, you give grounds to those that try to justify illegal police abuse. You become the poster child for them to say, 'See, we have no choice but to shoot and kill, or use a chokehold, because just look at the way they behave.'
If we are going to be serious about enforcing the law, we have to have a background record check system to make sure that people don't get weapons who shouldn't.
Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.
That guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.
From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out.
If you're a terrorist, you're a terrorist.
Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.