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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, December 23 2012 @ 09:38 AM EST |
There were no "other factors" in those results. We have just as many
idiots today as we had two
decades ago, in fact it seems that there are more. They just can't get a hold of
semi-automatic
weapons any more. There's no magic at play here.
Guns aren't totally outlawed here. The semi-automatic weapons that are so
favoured by mass
murders for their ability to kill so rapidly are. Belong to a shooting club,
have the weapon
registered, receive the appropriate training, and store it safely and you can
have one. You just
can't walk into our equivalent of Walmart and buy one along with the washing
detergent and a
DVD burner.
Some countries do have lots of guns without the US homicide rate. Now we are
getting into the
psyche of different people in different countries. Let's not go there.
I am sure that when writing your constitution, your founding fathers primary aim
was not to
protect the right of every lunatic to massacre school children. In fact, I dare
say they would be
horrified to know that what they intended as something that would be a benefit
to society was
being used to allow such atrocities to continue. Anyway constitutions can be
changed. The
right to bear arms is an "amendment" after all.
Does the constitution decree that the right cannot be regulated?
"Arms" are not just guns. Does
every US citizen have a constitutional right to own a thermonuclear device, or
does the
government already place some limits on what arms its citizens can and cannot
have?
Einstein said "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking
we used when we
created them." If you guys want to stop the massacres, you have to change,
which brings me
back to my original question - Do you have the intestinal fortitude to do what
needs to be
done?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Charles888 on Sunday, December 23 2012 @ 10:18 AM EST |
Switzerland does it very
differently. These guns are
regulated by the government and
their use is very tightly
controlled. So is the training. Do
you want the same? You can't pick
and choose.
As for Mexico, they can thank the
lose availability of military style
weaponry in the US (coupled with a
big market for illicit drugs) for
the gum violence they are having.
These guns do not come from Mexico.
Three come from the US. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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