NorthofEngland
Well-Known Member
I read this reason quite often.
Americans own guns as a way of ensuring that no undemocratic or tyrannical government can take power by force.....
So, a regime that has the brute force to take power from the government and armed forces of the USA (the worlds only superpower)
will be stopped by motley crews of citizens and their collections of firearms???
SUCH A STUPID ARGUMENT!!!
This argument was relevant during the Revolutionary Period and the War of 1812 era. But, already by the Spanish-American War, technological advances had rendered the self-armed, community group militia's obsolete.
WHY SHOULD THE PEOPLE WHO DISLIKE GUNS HAVE TO SHARE COMMUNITIES WTH PEOPLE WHO ARE IRRESPONSIBLE ENOUGH TO OWN THEM?
I do not expect anyone to have to breath my smoke.
If they don't smoke it is unfair for my cigarette to pollute the air they breath - so I smoke where it will not affect them.
Likewise, people with a more balanced and mature attitude towards the rights and responsibilities of citizenship,
the people who understand that, for every criminal act that is prevented by a citizen with a private weapon,
there are dozens of accidents and 'rage' crimes caused by psychological effects of gun ownership on otherwise law abiding people.
WHY SHOULD THESE PEOPLE HAVE TO LIVE THEIR LIVES WITH THE CONSTANT FEAR THAT SOME OF THEIR NEIGHBOURS OWN POTENTIALLY LETHAL TOYS???
A STREET WITH TEN HOUSES. IN ONE OF THE HOUSES THE OWNER KEEPS A TIGER.
IF ANYTHING WENT WRONG THIS CREATURE COULD HURT OR KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE WHO WERE MATURE AND CONSIDERATE ENOUGH
TO NEVER BRING SUCH AN ANIMAL INTO A COMMUN ITY WITH CHILDREN.
Many of the neighbours would like the Tiger to be removed....
but if an undemocratic and tyrannical government took power, against the wishes of the people,
this Tiger could serve as a valuable weapon in the defence of the nation.
"It is the right of every citizen to own a tiger....
"Riots broke out in Mississippi after the State Senate attempted to limit Tiger ownership to one per month....
"Georgia fails in attempt to ban PCP/Steroid Tiger food.....
THERE IS NOT A GROUP OF GOOD PEOPLE and A GROUP OF BAD PEOPLE (like the 'goodies and baddies' in old movies.
Sometimes law abiding people have break downs and act out of character.
The NRA likes to put people in one of these two distinct categories.
"Let's arm school teachers".
What happens if one of these teachers loses control....?
People are too complicated, too unpredictable
to think that gun ownership can exist
without gun crime.
For a person who has lost everything and is bitter at the world
leaving this life in a bullet fuelled blaze of glory is a powerful incentive.
Americans own guns as a way of ensuring that no undemocratic or tyrannical government can take power by force.....
So, a regime that has the brute force to take power from the government and armed forces of the USA (the worlds only superpower)
will be stopped by motley crews of citizens and their collections of firearms???
SUCH A STUPID ARGUMENT!!!
This argument was relevant during the Revolutionary Period and the War of 1812 era. But, already by the Spanish-American War, technological advances had rendered the self-armed, community group militia's obsolete.
WHY SHOULD THE PEOPLE WHO DISLIKE GUNS HAVE TO SHARE COMMUNITIES WTH PEOPLE WHO ARE IRRESPONSIBLE ENOUGH TO OWN THEM?
I do not expect anyone to have to breath my smoke.
If they don't smoke it is unfair for my cigarette to pollute the air they breath - so I smoke where it will not affect them.
Likewise, people with a more balanced and mature attitude towards the rights and responsibilities of citizenship,
the people who understand that, for every criminal act that is prevented by a citizen with a private weapon,
there are dozens of accidents and 'rage' crimes caused by psychological effects of gun ownership on otherwise law abiding people.
WHY SHOULD THESE PEOPLE HAVE TO LIVE THEIR LIVES WITH THE CONSTANT FEAR THAT SOME OF THEIR NEIGHBOURS OWN POTENTIALLY LETHAL TOYS???
A STREET WITH TEN HOUSES. IN ONE OF THE HOUSES THE OWNER KEEPS A TIGER.
IF ANYTHING WENT WRONG THIS CREATURE COULD HURT OR KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE WHO WERE MATURE AND CONSIDERATE ENOUGH
TO NEVER BRING SUCH AN ANIMAL INTO A COMMUN ITY WITH CHILDREN.
Many of the neighbours would like the Tiger to be removed....
but if an undemocratic and tyrannical government took power, against the wishes of the people,
this Tiger could serve as a valuable weapon in the defence of the nation.
"It is the right of every citizen to own a tiger....
"Riots broke out in Mississippi after the State Senate attempted to limit Tiger ownership to one per month....
"Georgia fails in attempt to ban PCP/Steroid Tiger food.....
THERE IS NOT A GROUP OF GOOD PEOPLE and A GROUP OF BAD PEOPLE (like the 'goodies and baddies' in old movies.
Sometimes law abiding people have break downs and act out of character.
The NRA likes to put people in one of these two distinct categories.
"Let's arm school teachers".
What happens if one of these teachers loses control....?
People are too complicated, too unpredictable
to think that gun ownership can exist
without gun crime.
For a person who has lost everything and is bitter at the world
leaving this life in a bullet fuelled blaze of glory is a powerful incentive.
