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I am not a card carrying member of the NRA. I do not salivate when I hear an assault rifle go off. In fact it makes me sick to my stomach. I am what most conservatives would call a liberal, a dirty word in their book. I don't like guns. I don't own a gun, and I never want one in my house.
However...
I do think it is a right of any upstanding citizen in their right mind to own a gun, if he or she so chooses. In the wake of all these shootings, people have been talking about guns and how they have been the cause of all of these tragedies. Stop looking at guns, and video games, and media. Start looking at mental health in this country. It is my opinion people have lost a good portion of there empathy towards their fellow man. Empathy is a learned behavior usually and its parents, and mentors responsibility to instill it into young people.
It is not the guns fault if it gets picked up and used to kill innocent people, just as it is not the cars fault if some drunk gets into it and drives into an innocent person. Nor is it the fault of leaders who up hold the 2nd Amendment of the United States. Guns are just dead pieces of steel. They don't do anything unless picked up and used.
People in our society need to wake up to the fact that we have become a bunch of sniveling finger pointers, who will not take responsibility for our own, and our actions. I don't know when our how we lost our way, that's not the point. The point is we have to get back on track. Parents need to find some personal responsibility for their kids. You made them, now teach them. Parenting doesn't stop... ever... Kids need to be taught empathy. It is as simple as that.
I repeat I am not into guns. I do not like them. But it is not my responsibility to get rid of them. It is my responsibility as a citizen to do everything I can mentally ill, or angry people do not get there hands on them.
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Comments: 8
If any upstanding citizen wants a gun they can have one as far as the second amendment goes but doesn't it make sense as well to make sure they don't have more than they need or that it's just the upstanding citizens that can get them?
Unless you're about to start a war in a Banana republik no-one really needs automatic or semi-automatic weapons with a huge magazine and a heavy rate of fire.
You say mental health needs looking at and I couldn't agree more. Facilities to help those with mental problems are needed more and more, but until you have them, shouldn't there be a way to make sure they can't walk into Walmart and buy a gun they empty into a bus queue outside? Proper gun checks seem to make sense for everybody's sake.
No-one is blaming the gun for killing but it's silly to make the gun too available.
No, it's not the car's fault if someone gets into it and kills someone. It could be the fault of the person who left the keys in though. And when did someone in a car last kill 26 children? It's like there are jet propelled cars on racetracks and that's the place for them not the roads, so with weapons, some guns just aren't needed at home.
The second amendment should stay but it's good that the Government cares enough to try and limit the damage that a ill person or a bad person can do by making sure they can't get hold of the wrong weapons.
Much like yourself I don't own a gun and am not particularly fond of them, though I can enjoy the sport. The real issue here is America's Constitution and the individual liberties guaranteed us under it. The Second Amendment is there for a very good reason and that's not hunting.
Our Constitution is too important to play around with. Absolutley no changing the rights that are guaranteed us under it.
There are a lot of outdated things in the Constitution, and they are kept just for the sake of the tradition.
When the Constitution was written, there was a real need for the lame duck period. It took about two months for a winner of the presidential office to travel from the furthest point of the country to Washington...
When the Constitution was written, there was a need for the electoral college, basically for lack of effective communication systems, and the way the elections were working at the time.
When the Constitution was written, the US was not what it is today, and the revolution was fresh on everybody's mind, and the technology was not such a big factor as it is today, so the right to "bear arms" made sense.
Besides, in more modern times, Saddam Hussein did not prohibit his people to have arms, and they were plenty of automatic weapons in Iraq, yet he did not fall because the lovers of democracy in Iraq used their guns to fight him... Actually they tried quite a few times, however they had never been a match for the organized military with the latest armament, to take them down.
However, in Iraq and the rest of the world were populations are armed, there are not as many crazy shootings as they are in this country today...
What bothers me is that a lot of Americans care about their "right to bear arms", however they don't care about their first or their fourth, or fifth amendment for that matter.
It is my responsibility as a citizen to do everything I can mentally ill, or angry people do not get their hands on them.
I this case let's abolish the police, the military and lock up all gun lovers in this country, because they all fall in the mental illness category...