Weak Gun Control Laws Show America is Crazy, Numb to Violence
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the second amendment wasn't to have a gun to defend ourselves from ordinary criminals
The point of the second amendment is not so law abiding citizens can defend themselves from everyday robbers and rapists, and gangsters. No the second amendment was made so that the government cannot become totalitarian and rob us of our freedoms.
Mardi of XX says that you can do a lot more damage with a gun than you can with you bare hands, this is not true, if i grabbed your head with my bear hands and smashed it repeatedly into a brick wall, it would do more damage than any gun with the exception of a 50 cal rifle perhaps. guns only make the job faster and easier, they make a person irresistible.
this is why a gov't loves its people to be unarmed. it makes them irresistible, 100 soldiers with guns are able to make a mob of 5000 or more citizens drop to submission. if the mob or 5000 civilians went up against the 100 soldiers however, they would stand a good chance. (btw, the total us population vs. the number of people in the U.S. military is about 1000 to five, including all women and children, and liberals.)
do guns contribute to crime and how drastic the crimes are? maybe. i personally believe that if a person didn't have a gun, he would just use a knife, and if they didn't have a knife, they would use a pipe or crow bar. if someone has evil intentions, they will find a way to carry them out.
but enough about using guns to defend urself from everyday criminals everyone! the second amendment makes it possible to defend ourselves from the criminals and liars that run our government, dem, GOP, lib, ind, and any other party alike.
How stupid are you?
I'm an Australian and can not believe that the US has not brought in tougher gun laws. For those of you that have commented on the crime rate increasing in Australia since we changed our gun laws, I can tell you that any increase is not from the gun laws changing. It is from increase in population and the changing of society. The increase in crime here has not been dramatic. Very few Australians own guns unlike the US. Australia is a hell of a lot safer country than the US.
For those of you who say it's not the gun that kills people but the person behind the gun. Well it is the gun that kills people. Someone could not do the same damage to one person with their bare hands compared to what they can do with a gun. Also we will never be able to totally control people with mental health issues and people that are emotionally unstable, but you can control those people getting hold of a weopon that can kill someone. How many of your children need to die before you will wake up to yourselves?
As a child I saw the US as our big sister country. If we ever got in trouble we would have the US to protect us. You were our friends and allies.
You have disappointed me so much. Use your heads, be the country you should be.
you're sick, as you are stupid
Hello Morons (tha means fellow Americans)
If you outlaw guns for everyone, nobody will be able to defend themselves (have any self defense). Think about it?
2nd Amendment of the Constitution!
Read and weap fools -
Amendment 2 - Right to Bear Arms. Ratified 12/15/1791
"A well regulated Militian, being NECESSARY to the security of a FREE State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall NOT be infringed. ! ! !
This woman is moronic
Gun control means more crime. In D.C they had a 30 year gun ban and during it the murder rate was the one highest in the country. Criminals break the law so they dont care about gun control. The only people who are affected by it are the law abiding citizens who have no means to protect themselves. In 1994 congress banned assault weapons yet still two men walked into a bank wounding over 17 people with full auto ak-47's that were banned. It shows that people will get guns no matter what. Look at england. People do not feel safe living there because a person could break into a house and they could do nothing about it. Even the police feel outgunned. If everybody was armed nobody would be stupid to shoot. What criminal would commit a crime if he knew their was a chance he would get shot? Quite simply Ms. Erbe Youre just another stupid democrat that doesnt have their facts straight.
insanity
i agree with the persons who stated that the crime rate in austrailia has risen drastically since the banned guns and made it illegal to use a firearm defensively. i also challenge anyone to put a gun down on a table and tell it to kill someone, it just doesnt work, imagine that. criminals WILL get guns nomatter what, and failing that they'll go to knives, clubs, fists and feet. next thing you know the goernment is going to make us run around with pillows on out hands and feet.
this is all sillyness...read below
Since Australia banned private ownership of most guns in 1996, crime has risen dramatically on that continent, prompting critics of U.S. gun control efforts to issue new warnings of what life in America could be like if Congress ever bans firearms.
After Australian lawmakers passed widespread gun bans, owners were forced to surrender about 650,000 weapons, which were later slated for destruction, according to statistics from the Australian Sporting Shooters Association.
The bans were not limited to so-called "assault" weapons or military-type firearms, but also to .22 rifles and shotguns. The effort cost the Australian government about $500 million, said association representative Keith Tidswell.
Though lawmakers responsible for passing the ban promised a safer country, the nation's crime statistics tell a different story:
Countrywide, homicides are up 3.2 percent;
Assaults are up 8.6 percent;
Amazingly, armed robberies have climbed nearly 45 percent;
In the Australian state of Victoria, gun homicides have climbed 300 percent;
In the 25 years before the gun bans, crime in Australia had been dropping steadily;
There has been a reported "dramatic increase" in home burglaries and assaults on the elderly.
At the time of the ban, which followed an April 29, 1996 shooting at a Port Arthur tourist spot by lone gunman Martin Bryant, the continent had an annual murder-by-firearm rate of about 1.8 per 100,000 persons, "a safe society by any standards," said Tidswell. But such low rates of crime and rare shootings did not deter then-Prime Minister John Howard from calling for and supporting the weapons ban.
gun contral laws made NO sence. You take away guns from the law abiding people and the criminal's don't follow the law (thats why they are known as criminals), so they can do as they please with out worring about getting shot. Your dumb if you think taking away guys from normal folk will make this place safer.
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