Hmm? Gun rights? Really now... I got some interesting arguments about that.
Let's take a trip back to the roaring twenties. Did we have any gun control laws back then? Our issues were primarily with Chicago gangsters and their
like. And they could probably pay people in the government to look the other way anyhow.
Back then, you could order a good, high-powered hunting rifle through a mail-order catalogue. A ten year old who could read and write could do this, even back
then. Now, did we have problems with kids shooting up their schools, or each other for that matter? Sure, there was the isolated incident or two, but nothing
that made national headlines.
Nowadays, if some kid shoots another in a fit of mis-placed anger, it's suddenly splashed accross headlines all over the news. The trouble is that this
phenomenom is nothing new. There's always people who will go out and kill another person for whatever logical or illogical reason. The weapon itself does
not matter.
Does a gun give a sense of empowerment? Hell yeah, it does. It kinda scares me every time a load up a pistol and an M-16 for when I go out to do my watch
standing. By accepting that ammunition and loading it into the weaponsissued to me I become empowered with the ability to take life.
Does a gun make a man or a woman dangerous? Yes.
Does a gun make someone into a killer? No. Not until they have killed someone.
Does a gun make people evil and corupt? Hell no. No matter what you have, you can kill a person, so it does not make one evil.
You can kill people with your own bare hands simply by overwhelming the victim and choking the life out of them. Only the weakest and frail of humans lack this
ability. And yet we do not see the government limiting the use of our hands, now do we? I bet if certain political groups could get away with it, they would. I
don't know who, but I know there's crazy people like that out there.
I don't care what others may think. In Iraq, of all places, civilian families are alotted a single AK-47 and a clip of amunition. Yet here in the US, the
idea of owning an 'assault rifle' is veiwed as a distinct sign of paranoia by some. When I become a civilian once more and I have a family, I will not
simply trust the local police to protect my home because they do not live there.
I will be the one that lives there.
And I will make sure that my home is armed and that my wife and my children know how to effectively use the weapons in our home. This is the right that was
granted by our founding fathers. They had seen homes pillaged by thieves, the women and children raped and murdered. And they knew that sometimes this was
perpetrated by soldiers of all people! They understood the need to have an armed home. And I bet you that those women and children knew how to load and fire a
musket and flintlock.
These times are no different. We still have murderers, rapists, and thieves in our midsts (perhaps more now than ever!) and to make matters even worse there
are the threats of enemies of our country, both foreign and domestic. Just imagine a USA where most of the citizens carried firearms and knew how to spot
suspicious behavior. That is what -I- call Homeland Defense. Paranoid, a bit? Maybe. But no worse than the current administration's campaigns against
terror here at home. And this way you aren't stepping on the graves of our founding fathers to do it.
Hell, it'd probably even level the playing field. Are you gonna make a nuisance of yourself in a country where the women can stare you down through the
sights of a gun? Probably not unless you're stupid. And soon after implementing such a protocol I'd expect a rapid drop-off of stupidity genes in the
American genepool.![[Image: wink.gif]](http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/wink.gif)
Oh, and in case any of you are wondering where I got some of these wonderful arguments from? Check this out!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1882646/posts
Let's take a trip back to the roaring twenties. Did we have any gun control laws back then? Our issues were primarily with Chicago gangsters and their
like. And they could probably pay people in the government to look the other way anyhow.
Back then, you could order a good, high-powered hunting rifle through a mail-order catalogue. A ten year old who could read and write could do this, even back
then. Now, did we have problems with kids shooting up their schools, or each other for that matter? Sure, there was the isolated incident or two, but nothing
that made national headlines.
Nowadays, if some kid shoots another in a fit of mis-placed anger, it's suddenly splashed accross headlines all over the news. The trouble is that this
phenomenom is nothing new. There's always people who will go out and kill another person for whatever logical or illogical reason. The weapon itself does
not matter.
Does a gun give a sense of empowerment? Hell yeah, it does. It kinda scares me every time a load up a pistol and an M-16 for when I go out to do my watch
standing. By accepting that ammunition and loading it into the weaponsissued to me I become empowered with the ability to take life.
Does a gun make a man or a woman dangerous? Yes.
Does a gun make someone into a killer? No. Not until they have killed someone.
Does a gun make people evil and corupt? Hell no. No matter what you have, you can kill a person, so it does not make one evil.
You can kill people with your own bare hands simply by overwhelming the victim and choking the life out of them. Only the weakest and frail of humans lack this
ability. And yet we do not see the government limiting the use of our hands, now do we? I bet if certain political groups could get away with it, they would. I
don't know who, but I know there's crazy people like that out there.
I don't care what others may think. In Iraq, of all places, civilian families are alotted a single AK-47 and a clip of amunition. Yet here in the US, the
idea of owning an 'assault rifle' is veiwed as a distinct sign of paranoia by some. When I become a civilian once more and I have a family, I will not
simply trust the local police to protect my home because they do not live there.
I will be the one that lives there.
And I will make sure that my home is armed and that my wife and my children know how to effectively use the weapons in our home. This is the right that was
granted by our founding fathers. They had seen homes pillaged by thieves, the women and children raped and murdered. And they knew that sometimes this was
perpetrated by soldiers of all people! They understood the need to have an armed home. And I bet you that those women and children knew how to load and fire a
musket and flintlock.
These times are no different. We still have murderers, rapists, and thieves in our midsts (perhaps more now than ever!) and to make matters even worse there
are the threats of enemies of our country, both foreign and domestic. Just imagine a USA where most of the citizens carried firearms and knew how to spot
suspicious behavior. That is what -I- call Homeland Defense. Paranoid, a bit? Maybe. But no worse than the current administration's campaigns against
terror here at home. And this way you aren't stepping on the graves of our founding fathers to do it.
Hell, it'd probably even level the playing field. Are you gonna make a nuisance of yourself in a country where the women can stare you down through the
sights of a gun? Probably not unless you're stupid. And soon after implementing such a protocol I'd expect a rapid drop-off of stupidity genes in the
American genepool.
Oh, and in case any of you are wondering where I got some of these wonderful arguments from? Check this out!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1882646/posts