Ok, so I know you all know by now the tragedy that has struck the country.
20 children dead, 6 adults dead in an elementary school. This is despicable.
I don’t know about you, but I remember elementary school as a place of safety and learning. Somewhere I was always secure. Even as I grew older and went to junior high and even high school, school was always a place of security and safety.
This is something we never saw coming. Not just this shooting, but all the ones we’ve seen. There have been more shootings in the past 6 months than I’ve ever heard of in my whole life.
This is a serious issue, America, and we need to something about it. We need gun control.
Now, before you get all righteous on me, listen. I agree that it is ok and a constitutional right to bear arms. But it is not ok to be selling and buying automatic machine guns or whatever to regular citizens. Like seriously, what, is the raccoon in your yard going to shoot back at you? Is the poor deer you’re hunting going to use karate on you? You do not need such incredibly dangerous guns in your possession. We do not need to have guns designed for killing lots of people fast in gun or hunting stores. I’m pretty sure it’s still illegal to hunt people, although these days it’s hard to tell.
You know, I used to think that the second amendment wasn’t important. It was just one of those amendments the founding fathers put in because of their situation and didn’t affect us. But now it does. We as a nation need to decide just how far bearing arms can go. These shootings cannot continue. But they will if we don’t do something right now. We need to limit the guns that are sold to regular citizens. I don’t care if it’s legal in Texas or wherever to shoot someone trespassing on your property, which honestly is really stupid and weird. But we cannot allow people to keep going ballistic and shooting a bunch of people, especially children.
I say we need to sell only non automatic guns. If you can’t hit that deer in one shot it’s gone anyway, so sucks for you. We need a harsh penalty for selling such illegal guns, like 50 years in jail or something. And for those of you who say automatics are good for self defense, if the other guy doesn’t have an automatic, you can get him while he’s reloading. By the time you both have gotten one maybe two shots at each other, the police will be there to take care of it. Done, over, you’re safe, case closed.
The point here is that this could turn into a big controversial issue but why should it? We are Americans, since when has an attack on our citizens turned us against each other? Oh, yeah, every time since like, ever. Seriously, guys, gun control is the only way we can stop these tragedies from continuing to happen. Let’s band together and make it work instead of fighting each other about taking away rights like we always do.
Seriously though, no one’s going to take away your right to shoot a raccoon who’s in your yard and probably looks a little sketchy, even though it's just a freaking raccoon, get over it.
FBI". Who is the FBI whose stats you are quoting. The stats from the Federal Bureau of Investigation do not match.
Regarding Janet's last comment, which mass murdered last had impenetrable body armor?
The US has the highest gun ownership rate in the world - an average of 88 per 100 people. That puts it first in the world for gun ownership - and even the number two country, Yemen, has significantly fewer - 54.8 per 100 people • But the US does not have the worst firearm murder rate - that prize belongs to Honduras, El Salvador and Jamaica. In fact, the US is number 28, with a rate of 2.97 per 100,000 people TWENTY EIGHTH, @Dane! http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/jul/22/gun-homicides-ownership-world-list
Top killer of kids is car crashes: http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/16/accidental-deaths-among-children-fall/
Note that they are still not talking about the crimes gun PREVENT each year.
"Top killer of kids is car crashes: http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/16/accidental-deaths-among-children-fall" We have got to outlaw cars and driving! Do our children mean nothing to us?
Is it possible for you to make a post in response to a person with whom you disagree without hurling insulting names and invective?
http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811552.pdf also to drive a car you have to be able to prove you can operate it by being licensed,the car registered, and insured,anyone cannot just drive a car,anyone can get, or buy a gun,pleading ignorance to facts does not change the fact that people are being murdered everyday, and the cause it too many people having access to guns.
@Joshua, it is exactly that type of thinking which makes America the most dangerous place in the world,Canadians can own guns, but it is considered a privilege,and the number of people killed with them there is maybe 20 a year,compared to 15,000 in America.
Go back to sleep.
This was possibly true when the Bill of Rights was drafted (that's actually debatable, because there were weapons like mortars, cannon and howitzers then) but today the government has access to weapons the framers couldn't even imagine. And you don't have access to these weapons. And all but the most loony gun enthusiasts agree that we shouldn't have access to them. If you think your weapons are some sort of credible threat or balance to the federal government, I suggest you read about Ruby Ridge and Waco.
Imagine a revolution or civil war that was fought with modern weapons (either with or against the might of the US government). There is no winning such a war -- we would all lose. Again, the idea that civilians can pose a threat to the government with what are now legal personal weapons is delusional. People who believe otherwise are living in a past that hasn't existed for hundreds of years, in a fantasy fed by the NRA and greedy weapons manufacturers and dealers it represents.
Happy holidays, Bryan. :)
My comment about you being a crackpot was not based n that statement it was based on some of your previous posts where you were way to quick to post wild unfounded comments and then attack others as being looney if they simply did not agree with you even when the other person had similarly done a reasonable job in explaining an alternate point of view and still you were so quick to label them crazy, dellusional etc... It is that behaviour that you have displayed that warranted my comment that you were sort of a crackpot. Further, because you lay claim that people are crazy and dellusional so often that the attacks have no merit when they come from you.
I went back to read my comment history, because I didn't recall calling anyone any names. I found one instance where I called someone delusional. I should have remembered your name from that discussion, but I didn't. I think I've done this exactly once on this website, and it was directed at you, when you claimed: "...Slavery was never Christian, The slave trade in this country was largely Jewish... " "...Chrisitans did not own slaves in large numers..." And you then proceeded to call me a liar because I interpreted the rape laws in Deuteronomy the way pretty much everyone else (except apologists) interpret them. Not one of the comments I've made on this website appear to be unfounded, and if you want to play that game, I am happy to prove that they are all well-founded. Also, how many times have I called people delusional or crazy? I count two. Once directed at you, and once directed at any person who thinks they are going to fight the government with guns. I stand by both.