Nazgul:
I agree with the op.

Nigerians are psychologically damaged to handle guns, the country would be far worse than it is currently.

What we need is good leaders and we can only achieve that by voting in the right people.

flokii:
The only downside I see here is increased gun-related offenses.. still it's better in this situation we are presently in where terrorists move around with sophisticated weapons in broad daylight to wreck havoc and commit mass murder.
The years of Fulanis bearing arms especially AK47 and other dangerous weapons unchecked is part of the reasons we are where we are today.

Nazgul:
I agree with the op.

Nigerians are psychologically damaged to handle guns, the country would be far worse than it is currently.

What we need is good leaders and we can only achieve that by voting in the right people.

Nazgul:
I agree with the op.

Nigerians are psychologically damaged to handle guns, the country would be far worse than it is currently.

What we need is good leaders and we can only achieve that by voting in the right people.

truthCoder:


Why will you condemn a whole country and say we dont have the mental capacity to own guns?

I will not accept such a prejudiced approach to the collective intelligence of the biggest black nation in the world.

Are you implying that the simple genetic fact that we are born black and Nigerians automatically has reduced our mental capability to handle a gun?

This is an insult and this is one of the reasons why we keep getting ridiculed world wide.

For you to assume we would immediately go on a rampage shooting like baboons simply because we are Nigerians is so low.

America from where we photocopied our constitution (and from which we have not died) also has gun control laws, albeit not perfect, but still functional.

We can re-write our laws, set up mental evaluation units and do everything necessary just to ensure the safety of our citizens are assured.

Guns are good deterrents and it will radically change our security structure.

Ademola47:


Well, being angry shouldn't get to the point of killing. Anybody that kills when angry should be killed as well constitutionally.


Maybe for people that believe in it. A lot of people that are believe to be Selina Tested have been shot dead at once.


Whoever kill should be killed. Simple!


From time immemorial, people have been killing one another to settle scores. We've heard of rival and retaliatory cult clashes in different parts of Nigeria, especially in the tertiary institutions.


Maybe mental evaluation would be done before being allowed access to live ammunition.


It will even reduce sef. For someone armed with AK-47 to go and kidnap someone also armed with AK-47 will be serious. Whoever is faster would eliminate the other.


Nope. Only the lazy and cowards will quit their jobs. People use gun in USA legally and they have functional police. What will be done is to provide them with quality armoured vest (bulletproof), helmet etc and to train them properly.


It's not finished. Security will become more serious.


Nope. A lot of criminals whose story made Nairaland frontpage use locally fabricated guns that cost as low as 10k. Whoever can't afford that is on their own. Even smugglers will start mass importation that will be sold cheaply.

How did you know that? Are you saying kidnappers and Bandits using AK-47 all have 1 million naira? That, I doubt.

Strech:
no mind the o. P, him just dey talk rubbish. It's arround 350k.. up north here. The thing don turn pure water sef..

Sultty:
at least people will have d chance to defend themselves. And not the killer/killee mentality imagine u bring confronted by kidnappers without being armed

dirtydiva:
I no go dey ds country when that madness wan start, make some no go replicate what dey watch on movie for street. Have you thought of spray bullets hitting our old men and women who will be victim of ds?

MadeINchenzen2:
of what use is a gun without bullets... add cartridges/ magazines to ur calculations and don't forget to grow up... u think and talk like a child.

truthCoder:
I am in support.

If we have the right to bear arms, then intimidation will reduce.

There is a saying in America. God created all men but colt made them equal.

Imagine EFCC raiding your house without a warrant. Will they dare if they know you have a legal firearm?

Imagine most of the passengers on the kaduna train had glocks and know how to use it.

How well would you sleep at night if you own a good benelli under your bed and you know your wife is accurate to 600 meters with a Mosin.

Do you know how many wives and daughters have been raped while their husbands and sons watched helplessly in Nigeria?

We need guns in Nigeria.

MadeINchenzen2:
https://www.nairaland.com/7056856/ado-doguwa-nigerians-must-allowed

It is a no brainer to even think of that as a good idea to curb the menace of unprecedented insecurity in the country, eg. kidnapping, unprovoked attacks and killings, banditry and terrorism that's bedeviled the country for over a decade.

Ado Doguwa a member of the house of representatives has this as a plan to stop insecurity. But I think the multiplier effects of doing so will be so enormous and overwhelming.

That action can automatically throw the country into a sudden civil war, and guess who the targets will be.... THE LEADERS THEMSELVES and that's because we are where we are because leaders in Nigeria have failed to do the right thing.

What do you think will happen if an angry and hungry man is being allowed to have access to guns? Well ur guess is as good as mine.

It will mean more jobs for witch doctors, who will get more customers to do "Odeshi" otherwise known as traditional bullet-proof.

People will shoot to kill at the slightest and most ridiculous provocation.

There will be aggrieved persons trying to purge, themselves of pain through retaliation, just to settle old scores.

A good percentage of people in the country has fallen into an unimaginable pit of depression and a lot of them are already suicidal.

Psychological disorder and bad mental health is also an issue... people are trying to manage mid-life crisis, and then u let such person handle a gun? hehehe

More organ harvesters. More kidnapping, more terrorism, more banditry. Excessive and untold lawlessness. Rights will be violated !!!

There will be more brutal domestic violence.

The police and military will quit their jobs.


The list is endless.... if everyone has access to weapons to defend themselves then it will be accurate to say that its is finished.

But on a second thought.... if people are allowed to defend themselves and only if they can afford to buy the weapons for themselves then it leaves the rich and middle class enough impetus to send the country to abyss.

1 fairly used AK47 is more than a million naira

MadeINchenzen2:
https://www.nairaland.com/7056856/ado-doguwa-nigerians-must-allowed

It is a no brainer to even think of that as a good idea to curb the menace of unprecedented insecurity in the country, eg. kidnapping, unprovoked attacks and killings, banditry and terrorism that's bedeviled the country for over a decade.

Ado Doguwa a member of the house of representatives has this as a plan to stop insecurity. But I think the multiplier effects of doing so will be so enormous and overwhelming.

That action can automatically throw the country into a sudden civil war, and guess who the targets will be.... THE LEADERS THEMSELVES and that's because we are where we are because leaders in Nigeria have failed to do the right thing.

What do you think will happen if an angry and hungry man is being allowed to have access to guns? Well ur guess is as good as mine.

It will mean more jobs for witch doctors, who will get more customers to do "Odeshi" otherwise known as traditional bullet-proof.

People will shoot to kill at the slightest and most ridiculous provocation.

There will be aggrieved persons trying to purge, themselves of pain through retaliation, just to settle old scores.

A good percentage of people in the country has fallen into an unimaginable pit of depression and a lot of them are already suicidal.

Psychological disorder and bad mental health is also an issue... people are trying to manage mid-life crisis, and then u let such person handle a gun? hehehe

More organ harvesters. More kidnapping, more terrorism, more banditry. Excessive and untold lawlessness. Rights will be violated !!!

There will be more brutal domestic violence.

The police and military will quit their jobs.


The list is endless.... if everyone has access to weapons to defend themselves then it will be accurate to say that its is finished.

But on a second thought.... if people are allowed to defend themselves and only if they can afford to buy the weapons for themselves then it leaves the rich and middle class enough impetus to send the country to abyss.

1 fairly used AK47 is more than a million naira

MoneyGoDrop:
Now that Nigerians don't have gun,are people not dying on daily basis from gun inflicted injuries.

Sultty:
stop taking like a fool. Arming people does not mean every Tom 'dick' and Harry will be licensed for example people that are not mentally fit won't be armed etc but I'll personally send terrorist to their early graves

MadeINchenzen2:
https://www.nairaland.com/7056856/ado-doguwa-nigerians-must-allowed

It is a no brainer to even think of that as a good idea to curb the menace of unprecedented insecurity in the country, eg. kidnapping, unprovoked attacks and killings, banditry and terrorism that's bedeviled the country for over a decade.

Ado Doguwa a member of the house of representatives has this as a plan to stop insecurity. But I think the multiplier effects of doing so will be so enormous and overwhelming.

That action can automatically throw the country into a sudden civil war, and guess who the targets will be.... THE LEADERS THEMSELVES and that's because we are where we are because leaders in Nigeria have failed to do the right thing.

What do you think will happen if an angry and hungry man is being allowed to have access to guns? Well ur guess is as good as mine.

It will mean more jobs for witch doctors, who will get more customers to do "Odeshi" otherwise known as traditional bullet-proof.

People will shoot to kill at the slightest and most ridiculous provocation.

There will be aggrieved persons trying to purge, themselves of pain through retaliation, just to settle old scores.

A good percentage of people in the country has fallen into an unimaginable pit of depression and a lot of them are already suicidal.

Psychological disorder and bad mental health is also an issue... people are trying to manage mid-life crisis, and then u let such person handle a gun? hehehe

More organ harvesters. More kidnapping, more terrorism, more banditry. Excessive and untold lawlessness. Rights will be violated !!!

There will be more brutal domestic violence.

The police and military will quit their jobs.


The list is endless.... if everyone has access to weapons to defend themselves then it will be accurate to say that its is finished.

But on a second thought.... if people are allowed to defend themselves and only if they can afford to buy the weapons for themselves then it leaves the rich and middle class enough impetus to send the country to abyss.

1 fairly used AK47 is more than a million naira

BRATISLAVA:


It will be worse when every idiot with a short fuse and issues holds one.

American gun violence will be little compared to what Nigeria would become. A Nigeria without EMTs and a 911 hotline, dysfunctional police officers, and brothers who want to take over their brothers properties, angry jilted men, tribalists with so much hate. People will love to oppress others and make yet others needless victims. It will be perilous.

Nigerians don't deserve to have weapons in their hands. Without them, look at the scale of destruction.

author= GloriousGbola post=111580006

All of those things you listed are already happening. Rest assured, there are plenty of guns in circulation. The only people who don't have guns are those who abide by the law.

Already the Nigerians licensed to carry guns are outsourced to everyone with money. Police, army, nsdcd and Co, you have your money and you can use them for debt collection, land grabbing, seizing people properties etc.

We are already in the place you have described.

What use will the country be if all the law abiding citizens are dead or victims of crime?

We talk about America system.

That is also the issue. I live in festac. There was a time when we had aggressive car vandals. For the police to come by, they had to be PAID.

Right now in lagos it looks like we may have sleeper boko haram or bandits. There are literally thousands of okada riders and they have taken over spots everywhere. I sometimes hear them driving around at 2am or 3am.

What will I do if they decide to storm my home tomorrow?

I once faced down two thugs in my home with fists and prevailed . This was eight years ago. I am older, fatter and my wife asks me who will take care of the family if I am not so lucky this time.

And aboki criminals are much more crazy and much more dangerous than Yoruba ones.