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apparently, you aren't paying attention.
No one is trying to take all the guns - just trying to make it harder for the crazy guys to get the guns. That's all.
Originally posted by BSFC123
First off, guns are dumb. Hunters used to hunt with bow and arrows and knifes, and they got along just fine that way for thousands of years. Guns are another example of mankind's amazing technological advances, with which we can kill each other. Awesome. Let's make something that shoots metal pieces at things, woo hoo!
That said.
Guns exist, millions and millions of them, and we can't make them disappear. The adage that if you outlaw guns only outlaws will have them...well, sorry, that is try to a certain extent. The only way I could see any kind of gun ban actually work would be if the government made it automatic life in prison with no parole for anyone killing someone else with a firearm. Most criminals would likely find another way to commit their deeds, but hey, less gun violence.
If the government does atempt to either ban or make it nearly impossible for citizens to own guns, I could see some major backlash...don't know about a civil war, but who knows.
Originally posted by projectvxn
This thought has come to my mind once or twice. I hope it doesn't come to that. But gun rights, like gun control, isn't about guns.
Gun rights is about self preservation.
Gun Control is about control of the people.
The latter being antithetical to the former, a war may very well be what the anti-gun crowd gets from this.
Originally posted by Honor93
reply to post by kaylaluv
apparently, you aren't paying attention.
No one is trying to take all the guns - just trying to make it harder for the crazy guys to get the guns. That's all.
yes, they are ... www.nraila.org...
Originally posted by murphy22
reply to post by BSFC123
I agree somewhat with your post. But that was then and this is now, (reality).
When a government becomes the criminal, who keeps them in check? The laws? Bill of rights?
It is common knowledge they already break the laws they impose on themselves. What makes people think they will adhere to laws (The Bill of Rights) that protect you/us?
People put way to much faith in elected officials or governments in general. It would be good to remember Hitler was elected to office.....all down hill or up hill from there.
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Cooper was killed in a suspicious 2001 police shootout in his Arizona home.
Originally posted by JBA2848
You do know there are restrictions on knives right. Folding knives can only be so long switch blades are banned.
Originally posted by JBA2848
You do know there are restrictions on fertilizer to right. And the general public can't buy the kind to make bombs.
Originally posted by JBA2848
And a insurgency only works when they are well armed by a foreign government that feeds them a constant supply of weapons right.
So what foreign government are you going to team up with? Russia, China, North Korea?
Originally posted by projectvxn
reply to post by kaylaluv
But that 1/4th will be the pro-gunners, so.... doesn't affect me, as I am anti-gun, so I'm safe
This right here is exactly the attitude I speak of when I described the modern Americans' approach to the rights of others.
It's ok if they are all wiped out because you're anti-gun and they're not?
So not only do you have a selective view of gun rights, but you also have a selective view of the right to life?
Interesting.
Originally posted by TheMindWar
Whats more people who voted for Hilter didnt belive he was capable of starting world war 2. "it will never happen in Germany" was the consensus. We have hsitory repeating itself IMO, "it will never happen in the USA, lol, yeah right".