Honestly i'm a little torn... On one side i don't agree with the whole i need a gun to protect myself.So what is your position on the 2nd Amendment and gun ownership? Forgive me if I'm wrong, but it sounds to me like you don't think that people should be allowed to and that the 2nd Amendment is stupid![]()
... yet another american who can't tell the difference between a civilian and a soldier...
as stupid as your post is, yes I did infact do that once, with a knife (it gets real up close and personal in the fields of the greenzone in Helman) but that's beside the point.
I was a soldier in Afghanistan it was my job to use a weapon, as a civilian I don't need a weapon.
Just as you were by suggesting your opponent had little to no regard for the struggles of men in armed combat?
Touché.![]()
How does a lethal weapon symbolize freedom and empowerment? People never learn...
We understand perfectly well that guns were primarily designed to take life, human or animal. Just stop insulting us by acting like you are here to educating us dumb Americans with your enlightened views on how the world works.
We refute your dehumanizing belief that owning a gun means you are automatically a homicidal maniac, drooling to spill innocent blood.[This isn't my belief] A gun is a tool, yes, used primarily to kill, but it can be used for good or evil according to the intent of the HAND THAT WIELDS IT! What don't you under stand about that?[What I don't understand about that is how killing can be good. It isn't it is bad. Always. No matter if it's Ghandi holding the gun, or Hitler, killing is bad.
And don't start in with that shit about how violence/war is never the answer. Where would your butt be if we had said that when Hitler was kicking the shit out of your little island, huh?I have no idea, and neither do you...
Criminals and evil people have guns, and they will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever give them up.False, In America Criminals and Evil people have guns, in the UK it is rare. To do so would be relinquishing their power. So why are you against decent people having guns too? Do you really think a world where the law abiding citizens of the world are disarmed would be a safe place to live?Yes, because in said world criminals would have less guns aswell.
I would rather die fighting than be slave to the evil that you and other anti-gunners work so hard to empower.We aren't trying to empower evil, we are trying to remove the evil tools that people, law abiding or othersie have. Killing is WRONG
Just speaking hypothetically, let's say a strong nation like the United States decided that we wanted a little island summer home and invaded the UK. I'm sure you would quickly change your tune and pray to whatever god you worship for an AK47 in every English home. And a fighter jet or bomber parked in the garage, complimented by a AA missile battery on the front lawn.No I wouldn't.
Power goes to the boys with the biggest boom, boom toys Ghandi would disagree... If you want to put yourself in the place where all you can do is beg for mercy, well, you go their alone my little defenseless friend.Actually I go there as part of my nation.
HAL9000, you are from England, right? You dont need to look far back in your own history to see what the English did to the Scotts/Gaels or Irish. England had been fighting Ireland and Scotland for centuries. With the treaty of Limerick in 1691, the Irish were promised all full civil, religious, and property rights. In return, Irish troops were to leave Ireland for the continent.
With the Irish troops away, England began to institute the Penal Laws. Guess what was one of the first Penal Laws declared? For public safety, no Irish catholic could keep and bear arms.
Next, England would start stripping Ireland of all those guaranteed rights from the treaty: Irish catholics were denied the right to an education, to enter a profession, to hold public office, to engage in trade or commerce, to own or lease land, to vote, and the list goes on. The Irish had even fewer rights than the slaves in America.
The same Penal Laws were passed on to the Gaels after the battle of Culloden in 1746. Gaels, who were original Irish, were denied the right to keep and bear arms, to pay bagpipe, to wear kilt. Gaels found with any kind of arms were put to death. Without arms, the Gaels were helpless.
With the majority of colonists being Irish or Scottish, it was no surprise that they reacted violently when England tried to disarm them under the pretext of preserving public safety. Whats more, the reason why English troops marched to Concord and Lexington was to confiscate arms from local citizenries.Excellent, we've established how barbaric countries were in the 17th/ 18th centuries, and how America is still operating like it's 1776.
It is not without reason that the 2nd amendment ensured that the government could not infringe on the right of the people to people to keep and bear arms. With the way the 2nd amendment is worded, it is important to notice that the 2nd amendment grants NO right to the people to keep and bear arms. It says the right of the people to people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.I know what it says.... What's your point?
During the very short span of your very young life. Heck, maybe not even that long.
But what the heck would you do about it anyway if they did decided to declare martial law and take away your coveted democracy? Complain loudly? Ask them to play nice? Revolt? Yeah, didn't think so.I have the security in my country that it wouldn't happen.
I'm totally fine with firearms myself but I've lived in Canton, Detroit and now in Denver. Never needed a gun in any of the 3 locations. What suburb do you people live in that there are all these "bad guys" out to "get cha"?
Reading through these 7 pages of posts there are a lot of scared people here.
But protesting didn't work either. So words clearly weren't the answer. Guns have a better track record then simply protesting, statistically speaking anyway.
Following its success in trials, the Colt pistol was formally adopted by the Army on March 29, 1911, thus gaining its designation, M1911 (Model 1911). It was adopted by the Navy and Marine Corps in 1913. Originally manufactured only by Colt, demand for the firearm in World War I saw the expansion of manufacture to the government-owned Springfield Armory.
As a proud resident of Utah, I'm happy my legislators passed this. Now if they could do something about the 2 million acre theft of Utah land called the Escalate-Grand Staircase National Park, I'd be a happy camper.
I'll have to get one of those 1911 models next time the gun show comes through town, It would sit pretty next to my Rutger Vaquero .45
Didn't realize John Browning was from Utah.
Wikipedia says he was a Mormon.
Now you know.
I'm totally fine with firearms myself but I've lived in Canton, Detroit and now in Denver. Never needed a gun in any of the 3 locations. What suburb do you people live in that there are all these "bad guys" out to "get cha"?
Reading through these 7 pages of posts there are a lot of scared people here.
Gun ownership and paranoia go hand and hand. Doubly so with most ATOT gun owners.
Gun ownership and paranoia go hand and hand. Doubly so with most ATOT gun owners.
I agree with this statement so much.
You would. I bet the amount of gun owners you know could be counted on one hand.
That they can, the amount of gun owners I've spoken to however can't.
Internet forums != real life. The gun owners I know are perfectly stable mentally. Yes there are paranoid types (especially on internet forums), but the same can be said of the opposition too. For example, people who feel threatened by my guns just by the knowledge that I own them. There is no evidence that I'm any threat to them, the worst crime I've ever committed is mild speeding. My guns have never so much as pointed at another individual. Yet for some reason these gun-control supporters see an instant, personal threat in my guns. Now tell me how that doesn't line up with paranoia?
That they can, the amount of gun owners I've spoken to however can't.
