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Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II
well I am not American and I believe that guns are a responsibility before being a right. Driving is a right too, but if you're not fit for it, then you can't drive. Same should apply for gun linceses, or better, it already happens, it only needs a more pro-active and effective regulation. Gun lobbies won't accept that in the US waving their constitutional rights, and that's ok with me, it's their problem, but I believe that the UK should really give up on all this politically correct bullcrap and get real.
Again, my point is that here people really think that owning a gun equates to being a timebomb, but even before the gun bans the accidents involving guns were extremely rare, people just bought into the Government fear campaign and found a scapegoat to social problem that they don't want (or simply can't) address with efficacy. The scare tactic, playing strong on the gun massacres that happened, did most of the work, so much that people didn't wanna know about guns anymore, it became a social no-no like eating veal...
And there is so much deliberate misinformation on the subject anyway: you can still get yourself a shotgun, a rimfire semiauto (they sell Car15 in .22, EXTREMELY portable and lethal) or bolt action rifle: an Enfield Jungle Carabine can hold 10 rounds of .303 and is very portable, how is that less lethal than a Garand or a pistol I still have to understand.. Don't you really see the hypocrisy of the legislation?  |
its not hypocrisy....these people dont want to ban guns cuz of public safety(only the "useful idiots" believe this) , they want to disarm the public for various reasons, and they want to tear down one of the main protections the people have against criminals both those in govt or on the street and to eliminate what is known as the "teeth" to the constitution...
its not hypocrisy at all they dont care about public safety, they go incrementally until the people can no longer defend it self from determined criminals or the state...
you know first bans on automatic weapons seems reasonable, and then next its bans on assault rifles and then any kind of weapon the military uses and all these seemingly reasonable things to the common person, will eventually come full circle making all non muzzle loading fire arms illegal...
that is why ANY attempt to infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms, is unacceptable... (not just muzzle loading muskets or hand guns or bolt action or semi auto or automatic, but all arms)
with out looking at the law i seem to recall that the rights of the people to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. it does not read "can be infringed a little bit incrementally"