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<{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>No one should have rights to bear arms, but now its too late to pull the ruling out, with so many damn guns in the streets. (millions)
The founders made that rule so that the people could protect themselves from the threat of the English (UK) and things like that, and they had no idea where the world was going to be hundreds of years later.</div>
What the ****?
I was going to go on a long winded post against this, but then I saw that you are from Massachusetts.
I will say this: you outlaw guns, it doesn't get rid of guns. It just assures you that the law abiding citizens will get rid of theirs, while those who kill, steal, etc with guns, keep theirs...
EXCELLENT idea.
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Outlaw guns and then have life sentences without parole or anything for anyone caught with a gun after an amnesty. Anyone left with a gun obviously is intending to use it to break the law, else they would hand it in, so punish them before they commit the crime.
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Brilliant!
Now we just gotta hope we catch them before they commit a crime.
(Crosses fingers AND toes - that should be enough).
What I don't understand is how Liberals (and not in the classical sense that DaBullz used, but in the modern day sense in American politics) bemoan the Bush administration for the Patriot Act, saying its a violation of of our Constitutional Rights....then under the same breath, want to ban guns.
Hypocrisy at its finest.
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If they are going to commit crimes anyway, what difference will it make?
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Seriously?
If an armed intruder breaks into my house to steal stuff, I can protect myself and my property.
If someone breaks into my house and wants to kill me, I can defend myself.
If someone wants to break in and have their way with my future wife, I can protect her.
Its about the ability to protect yourself, your property, your family, and your livelihood. Ridding the "US" of guns only ensures that the law abiding citizens are armless and those wishing to break the law anyway remain armed. You are eliminating a self defense mechanism.
I would have thought that something basic like this was easily understandable.
Guess I am mistaken.
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LOL
I think there's two kinds of people in the world. Those who think early Man originally was a peaceful animal and was corrupted along the way by capitalism. Then there's the rest of us who think early Man invented the tool to hit someone else over the head to take something from them.
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I live in America and don't need a gun to do every day things, don't need a gun to protect myself. Thats why you have the police for.
Its crazy when people suggest that you need self defense in America, and let me tell you that every where I've been, from the Midwest, to the Northwest, then the South (Carolinas), and now living in New England, I've never been in danger, even though currently I live 5 minutes from Springfield, where crime is much higher than a lot of cities around the US. Everyone else I know, Americans and foreigners, they have never needed guns, and will never need them.
I can understand if you want guns for sport reasons, to go shooting, hunting, etc, but there is no reason at all to have guns because you feel scared.
Now if you were in Iraq where a war is happening, than thats another story.
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It doesn't matter whether or not it's necessary. The right to bear arms is a constitutional right.
I will argue however, it is necessary. Back in February a U.S. Marshall was shot in the neck about one block from my dorm room while serving a child support warrant. The shooter fled on foot and later was shot dead by police.
Earlier this year on a Sunday afternoon a robber forced his way into my dorm building, came to my floor and stole various things, including laptops. He was armed as well.
Robberies have become a natural occurrences around campus. So have police chases and shootings around the neighborhood. That is the nature of the Washington D.C. that is beyond the plush neighborhoods of Georgetown and beyond Capitol Hill.
My only regret is I can't have a gun myself.
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Thats where the govt comes in place, and where the police need to act and protect its people. It shouldn't be up to you, as college students to have guns and defend yourself.
I work in the airline business (almost 4 months now) and we get angry customers almost daily, to the point where they would almost attack you, thats how emotional they are. And then a few minutes later they calm down and regret what they did. Now imagine yourself (or someone else), and something has happened to you, and makes you angry, your emotions run high and you have a gun hanging around, its in our brain to become an attacker and act like an animal, basically its in our genes, but then 5 minutes later you would automatically feel guilty and know that you made a mistake.
Guns are not for ordinary people, they are for military and police and personnel that are professionally trained for them.
