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Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II
I understand you perfectly, but personally I will never accept to give up my guns because someone tells me I'm safe or because it will make my country a safer place. I know I'm fit to own and operate firearms, and as long as I have all my marbles and behave according to certain standards (i.e. frequenting gun clubs), I pose no threat at all to the rest of the society, and surely not more than the drunk driver or the average criminal. So no, I won't let the government get my guns and destroy them for their political agenda. When I was told the horror stories of what happened here in the 90s with the seizing and destruction of thousands of pistols.. man what a sad day for democracy that must have been...
sorry Beo, but if short term solution means saving lives, I'll stick to owning guns. I'm not ready to become a martyr nor I would want anybody else to be one. You had a shocking experience, but don't think for a minute that gun control would actually mean you or your loved ones wouldn't live the same experience again. Even in this gun-freak-control country they regularly seize assault rifles, because criminals do not abide by the rules of our society.
This article is from 2008, but a friend that works at the London Metro told me things haven't improved at all, and that during last year's riots there was the serious fear that some police officer would have been shot in retribution, that's why many watched as the thugs destroyed the shops...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/aug/30/ukcrime1 |
Now we are moving into Pathos? Sad day for democracy?
You want to safe lives by keeping up the conditions that take so many lifes to begin with? What?
You like guns? Nothing wrong with that, so do I. You want to keep them? Fine, I know decent folks who own guns. We disagree, but we disagree on other things as well. Politics and majority voting will have their say here.
But please don't come up with such desperate arguments. I nearly spilled my Apple Juice when I read that.