First off banning guns is a stupid example of magical thinking as in if they were gone everyone would be happy and little Disney birds would flitter around dropping flowers. It's like trying to get rid of bad carpentry by banning hammers. The bad part of it is it takes attention and resources from the real problem with is with the people and human anger. Also you should be careful when you mess around with peoples' rights even if you detest them. Who knows when someone will come around and mess with yours? Weaken one man's liberty and you weaken your own. I am left wing and liberal but stupid is stupid. And the extremes of guns rights and gun control mobs have become a religious movement where reason does not exist.
Also owning an automatic weapon isn't a "right". When we wrote the 2nd amendment it was when weapons were muskets that took several minutes to load and the accuracy was atrocious. Letting civilians have this level of weaponry is absolutely insane and the rest of the first world seems to be doing just fine without it.
Except, you know, when our weapons are smuggled in to their country.
Exactly. Lo and behold - here are guns! Our last mass murderer used a shotgun, for which he had a licence I believe. Sort of gun you can actually still get in the UK if you have the right reason and a nice locked cabinet in which to store it. Gun control doesn't stop people shooting people, it just makes it less likely that the sort of person who will commit such a crime can obtain a legal gun in the first place. They may not get an illegal gun either. You can't just walk up to the nearest dodgy looking person you see and ask for an AK47.
Funnily enough the UK doesn't quite well without guns - and our policemen are pretty good at unarmed combat.
First off banning guns is a stupid example of magical thinking as in if they were gone everyone would be happy and little Disney birds would flitter around dropping flowers. It's like trying to get rid of bad carpentry by banning hammers. The bad part of it is it takes attention and resources from the real problem with is with the people and human anger. Also you should be careful when you mess around with peoples' rights even if you detest them. Who knows when someone will come around and mess with yours? Weaken one man's liberty and you weaken your own. I am left wing and liberal but stupid is stupid. And the extremes of guns rights and gun control mobs have become a religious movement where reason does not exist.
I wasn't aware that Australia was a fantasy world.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2012/12/16/g...hooting_could_australia_s_laws_provide_a.html
Also owning an automatic weapon isn't a "right". When we wrote the 2nd amendment it was when weapons were muskets that took several minutes to load and the accuracy was atrocious. Letting civilians have this level of weaponry is absolutely insane and the rest of the first world seems to be doing just fine without it.
Except, you know, when our weapons are smuggled in to their country.
Exactly. Lo and behold - here are guns! Our last mass murderer used a shotgun, for which he had a licence I believe. Sort of gun you can actually still get in the UK if you have the right reason and a nice locked cabinet in which to store it. Gun control doesn't stop people shooting people, it just makes it less likely that the sort of person who will commit such a crime can obtain a legal gun in the first place. They may not get an illegal gun either. You can't just walk up to the nearest dodgy looking person you see and ask for an AK47.
Funnily enough the UK doesn't quite well without guns - and our policemen are pretty good at unarmed combat.