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Originally Posted by ATAG_Doc
Just so you can be placed at ease and the discussion can stay civil just make sure that you accept it is what it is today and the free ownership of firearms to its citizens will always be apart of the fabric of the United States. It will not change. It cannot. Its a right that isn't conveyed by a government but before it. A charter of negative liberties that state what they cannot not do. And the right shall not be infringed. So its like a tattoo it isn't going away.
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At the time when the US laws where written most European countries had similar weapon legislation too (or rather lack of), and there was some kind of a gun in most cabins in Sweden too in the 19:th century. In those days most people where farmers far out in the woods with wild animals roaming around and no formalized police force to keep up law and order, so people had to be able to defend themselves in some way. The Royal Mail postmen in Sweden where required by law to carry revolvers as a defense against highwaymen and wild animals up until around 1920...
Before 1945 there was no license required for firearms even though you had to register purchased guns from 1934, and they where sold in every hardware store just like in the United States today.
Thank god we have moved on to a civilized society where firearms are not needed any more for protection in the woods and we resolve arguments verbally or written, and at the extreme in a court instead of pointing guns at each other or bang our neighbors in the head with large sticks
But of course, in the developing world that is not the case today so the AK-47:s are still needed for self protection... And in the good ole USA of course!