SHOOTING at the OLYMPICS

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Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

Well Canada is not like the US, and of course it's all about the people. Firearms per se are just a tool, they don't kill anyone if they're left untouched.

Agreed


once again, open a history book, or look for history of gun control in regimes..

Well history tells us that brutal regimes tend not to get overthrown by an armed population. What usually defeats a brutal regime is the military turning against it or a forign power stepping in. I don't think that an armed population on it's own would have that much of a chance against a military on it's own and it would lead to an entrenched drawn out bloody civil war. I also think that it's so unlikely that the population of a modern western democracy would have to defend it's self against it's own millitary, that on it's own its a weak excuse for gun ownership

it's not about need, it's about freedom to own a gun.

You are only free to do what your governments sets out in Law. Ultimate freedom is a misnomer. You are not completely free.
The simple fact is that people use guns to kill other people. the US has a terrible problem with gun murder it would be a responsible act by the governmnet to restrict access to guns. However the USA is a democracy and as such any act needs to be sactioned by the people, so, as long is there isn't the will to restrict guns it wont happen. This is why i couldn't lie in the USA for the same reasons i would not live in Somallia or Afghanistan. Lots of gun death and no restrictions on weapons.