Originally posted by: Narmer
1. Would America resemble Israel where the reason is for protection from an external threat?
Considering our open borders? Hell yes.
2. Is Israel an exceptional case?
Might not be a common case, but I wouldn't call it isolated. Exceptional perhaps, but that is not to say anyone else couldn?t be in the same degree of threat from a foreign entity.
3. Or would it be like Afghanistan, Northwest Pakistan where you use it to protect yourself from others within society?
After the dredges from more crime ridden countries come here and transform ours into their previous homeland? Hell yes it would be to protect us from others within our own society.
4. Wouldn't this increase accidental shootings and death by gun astronomically?
Certainly more people, more guns, more accidents. Darwin said it best, regarding natural selection.
5. Would this be acceptable to those who advocate such protection?
Really depends on how great a threat people within our own society becomes. Every nutjob is argument for arming oneself in the event that you are at ground zero when they start their personal genocide.
6. Would this be an efficient way to deal with an overbearing government? Look at Afghanistan, Northwest Pakistan, where they have weak governments.
To a certain degree yes, but it takes more than men and guns to secede from the Union. One could learn a hell of a lot from Muslims with regards to how you defeat a foe who has superior brute force. They have all the experience in the world at it.
7. Are more guns the solution to guns? Or would it be better if there were no guns? But how would we answer #6?
It would be better, but there's no way in hell to abolish them from the face of the earth. It is illegal to run a stop sign, yet people do it constantly. Laws to make guns illegal have no impact on the existence of guns.
In such a scenario, where we?d magically whisk away all guns, the government would also not have any so #6 wouldn?t be a problem.
Are the negatives worth the positives? Are there certain places in America that allows people to carry guns, unconcealed?
Not here in AL, you need a concealed carry permit.
As for negatives/positives. I?m not particularly sure, but the second amendment was created with a purpose behind it so if I?m going to have to lean in any direction on this issue I?ll fall back on that to cite the need for everyone to secure themselves via all available means.
We may be coming out of an American golden age where our society was peaceful and good enough to not need an armed citizenry, but with economic hardship, immigration, and other factors raising civil unrest I see a need for the second amendment. I do not imagine our decline from the world superpower will be a peaceful one.
If such predictions do not come to pass, even though I?d argue it?s already begun, then you still have the very real issue that making guns illegal only prohibits those who would defend themselves, not those who would continue killing with guns.
