06-16-2016, 12:24 PM
(06-16-2016, 11:32 AM)playwrite Wrote:(06-15-2016, 04:21 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(06-15-2016, 03:10 PM)taramarie Wrote: Agree with Eric here. Until America decides to change it will get the same results. It makes me glad i live in a country with tight regulations on guns and guns designed for mass kills are banned here as well as the fact it is illegal to carry a gun or any weapon on you. Take a lesson from other countries America. It won't hurt you to learn from others every so often. England is another prime example so I hear.
Problem is we have a right to self defense here. We have a Constitution that makes it very difficult to strip folk of their rights and a very divided electorate. When Eric is on his meds he is aware that he isn't going to get his daydreams manifest any time soon.
It would be much easier legal wise to allow the right to self defense work. Right now we're stuck between two world views. Prohibition is illegal and impossible to enforce, but the blue folk are stubborn enough to keep pushing it anyway. In Orlando, they created enough of a no-self-defense zone for a bunch of people to die.
Insane, but apt to continue.
The only reason people, including the police, need high velocity, high capacity assault weapons is because other people have high velocity, high capacity assault weapons. To believe otherwise is insane.
It's the Second Amendment that itself has become obsolete because it contains no non-discrimination clause and gives the states no right to regulate whether firearms can be brought into the state, as from states with lax gun laws to states with stringent laws on the books.
Does one really have a God-given right to buy a firearm in Virginia for use i New York when the laws of New York prohibit one from buying a firearm in New York?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.