Do you want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military?
December 31st, 2009 by eranio
Are we safer with an armed or dis-armed public?
"Ordinary citizens don’t need guns, as their having guns doesn’t serve the State." – Heinrich Himmler
"Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily lives, and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom." — John F. Kennedy
Posted in military guns
December 31st, 2009 at 10:22 am
The answer to society’s problems is not to take our guns away. Next we won’t be allowed to buy Knives. All meat will be sold pre-cut. Veggies will have to be processed in a food processor that the blade is not removable, eventually at the store then packaged. It is stupid. What about baseball bats and Q sticks? Maybe the base ball bat should have to be signed out with Identification and the Q stick, well surely there is a material they can make that out of that on impact it will simply break easy enough. Every one should have to wear a helmet and body pads. Protect us if we make it past the abortion phase.
It is all about "Control." Has nothing to do with the well fair of people in this Country. The laws are to suppress. Wake up America. Don’t be so blind as to think that taking freedoms away from you I and will ever resolve the crime in this Country. This has been the agenda over the past 50 years or more and the crime rate is greater now then it was and man is more creative and more aggressive today with creative ways of violating each other as time passes.
BUT the government holds steady on its course. Because it isn’t looking to eliminate or protect but to control and benefit for self preservation. The government doesn’t give a damn about you. Wake up.
What you should be looking for is LESS GOVERNMENT LESS LAWS MORE FREEDOMS FOR YOU AND I.
December 31st, 2009 at 10:22 am
I’d live in a society without guns. Then angry people would have to chase me instead.
December 31st, 2009 at 10:22 am
no. I like guns.
December 31st, 2009 at 10:22 am
Then move to France.
December 31st, 2009 at 10:22 am
There is ONE THING I KNOW, FOR SURE. I will not LIVE in a country that tries to take my guns.
December 31st, 2009 at 10:22 am
the more guns that are out there with people who don’t know how to use them the more problems there are going to be.
December 31st, 2009 at 10:22 am
why not, we are there now
December 31st, 2009 at 10:22 am
no if the public has no means of protection against the government what is gonna keep them from taking advantage of us
December 31st, 2009 at 10:22 am
Have you heard that guns are the best deterrant against home invasion crimes? Believe it.
December 31st, 2009 at 10:22 am
i agree with President Kennedy.not Himmler.wasn’t he a Nazi that worked for Hitler?
December 31st, 2009 at 10:22 am
THAT would be a disaster.
Absolute power by just a few leads to corruption.
December 31st, 2009 at 10:22 am
Police should recognize the laws and oaths they swore to uphold. If they break those laws then they should be prepared for armed conflict. The people have seen what happened in NO and I don’t think it is going to happen like that again.
I would rather die upholding my rights then submit to illegal arrest.
December 31st, 2009 at 10:22 am
They try to keep guns out of felons hands. Those of us who are a positive influence on society deserve them. Someone climbs through my window at night i got an arsenal.
December 31st, 2009 at 10:22 am
No way! I even though I am a Democrat, I strongly support the right to bear arms! That is a fundamental right of all Americans, whether for hunting, sport, or for defense of a home or property. The federal government has enough power over our daily lives. It has the Patriot Act, that dangerously has expanded into areas of our rights that I’m very much opposed to. The government can wiretap your phones without a court order, they can have access to checking account information, they can check what books you read in the library. When we give up the right to bear arms, our freedoms will be severly threatened as well as our personal safety.
December 31st, 2009 at 10:22 am
Making it illegal for people to own guns wouldn’t get guns off the street, just make the price go up. It would be like prohibition, in essence. I love being able to have my .45. Now I’m not toting it around with me everywhere I go, but the fact that I can legally have one makes me happy. Making guns for anyone NOT in the police, security agencies, or military doesn’t make sense, people that really want to have one would find a way to get them anyway.
December 31st, 2009 at 10:22 am
Sounds like you want to move to Iraq. You can get full auto’s and RPG launchers pretty easy there. Maybe if the NRA wasn’t such a group of wusses we all would have RPG launchers. Anybody try to break in my house…BOOM Rocket to the FAce. All we need is a safety course and a 3-day waiting period.
December 31st, 2009 at 10:22 am
Answer is NO. You need to have people lawfully own guns. The government is already limiting peoples rights as it is. Protection of the country for the PEOPLE and not government is the way forward.
To the post below me (right you are not ken). The ownership of firearms cannot be limited to present day thinking. It must be enforced for all time. Why? Who is to say what future is in store for all of us? Current ideologies can lead to a death sentence next year. Try to see all possibilities, not just our "safe" situation, supported by present day thinking! You sound like the type to be first in line to appease whatever "new" government comes to power.
December 31st, 2009 at 10:22 am
Who amongst us has recently been out in the streets using our guns against the government or any other outside force? I’m not against owning a gun or several guns, I just think the reasons people state are ridiculous examples of the reason to own weapons. If a state of emergency broke out, my guess, if people were running around in the streets with weapons, innocent people would be getting shot. Look at New Orleans after Katrina. There were several reports of shots being fired and people had no clue as to who was doing the shooting or what or who was being shot. I can see using a weapon to defend your home or family but not many other reasons to actually use a weapon.
December 31st, 2009 at 10:22 am
No, guns should only be illegal exept to police and the military
if the police and the military do their jobs well their should be no need for normal people to carry a wepon such as a gun
December 31st, 2009 at 10:22 am
This is an argument that will still be going on a hundred years from now. Some have turned it into an issue between the political parties but the truth of the matter is that its just as much pro and con within the parties as there is between them. I’m a liberal leaning independent and I would prefer to keep my shotgun, my 22 cal varmint rifle and a 38 pistol. I don’t have these weapons to fight imaginary enemies in the streets, these guns I use against animals for sport, out in the woods and fields.
I have the 38 for use against any animal that wants to break down my doors or smash in my windows to harm my family I would not want to give up these weapons but I would have no use for an M-16 or an AK47 nor do I need rocket launchers or any other of the type weapons used by an army to fight a full scale war. I leave that up to the army and the marines, they’re trained for that. I just feel it’s a matter of common sense what weapons should be available to the public and what gets into the hands of the criminals should be a matter for the police.
December 31st, 2009 at 10:22 am
Definitely armed! It is in the constitution that We the People have the Right to Bare arms! Smart fore-thinking on the part of our fore-father’s! They knew exactly what it was like for their own government to rule, and abuse them when a family had no weapons to defend themselves against tyranny, and wrong doing. It was do as we tell you, or we’re going to shoot you dead! That is the reason they put down the law in PLAIN English, that the citizen’s shall always be allowed to own guns, not to get the bad rapist, or thief that broke into their homes to commit crimes, or even to hunt. No, they gave us the right, and the means to fight against the government, with those weapons. That is the exact reason they made it a constitutional right, but the democratic government doesn’t want us to continue to have that right anymore. The liberals can’t wait for us to disagree with having that right, so they can bust our doors down, and MAKE us be ruled by their commie tactic’s. That is what Liberals are, they just used a different name to confuse the people, and sorry to say, but they’ve done a good job of it. We Republicans will not let them undermine the good old USA, though. We cannot let them take the Right to Bare Arms away from We the People!
December 31st, 2009 at 10:22 am
Ever try to find a cop when you really need one ?
the police can not provide everybody a defense,be everywhere and stop crime before it happens.
December 31st, 2009 at 10:22 am
No.I would not want to live in a country like that. It is the thing that I like most about the Mid-east people while they don’t choose to live as we do they do keep themselves well armed.
December 31st, 2009 at 10:22 am
I would absolutely positively not live in a country like that. In fact they can have my guns when they pry them from my cold dead fingers. When they try to take guns away in this country they may find they will have a full scale war on their hands. And with terrorism the way it is their is no way I am letting anyone take my guns from me!
December 31st, 2009 at 10:22 am
Look back through history and you will often find that the single largest danger to any people are their government. Start in the last part of the 19th century with the Ottoman Empire and then go and have a look at Hitler and then Stalin and then Poi,(Cambodia). Their governments disarmed the populations and the proceeded to kill millions of their own people.
Governments are far more dangerous in terms of killing than any criminal abuse of guns. I would never, never live under a government that denied my the right of owning firearms.
In terms of personal self defense, do you realize that the police have no legal obligation to protect you? Do you realize that YOU are the one responsible for your own safety and no one else? Do you have the backbone to take that responsibility or would you prefer to be a coward? We have too many cowards in this country as it is. That’s one of the reasons we have the crime that we do because we won’t stand up to the criminal element. Either in the courts or in our own streets and homes.
Now the cowards are demanding that we cut and run in the war on terror. They want us to bury our head in the sand and just hope that the terrorist go away. When we pull out of Iraq under the cowards terms the terrorist will know us as having no backbone and it will be only a matter of time before they feel secure in attacking us again. I strongly belive that we will have another 9/11 type attack with horrendous loss of life because we have become a nation of cowards.
December 31st, 2009 at 10:22 am
Good question. I’ve never understood how disarming the public is of benefit. People seem to think that it will also disarm criminals – but criminals by their very nature will not be stopped by law. So why does everyone assume disarming the public will disarm criminals? As for safety issues – that just shows a need for education on the subject. Do not remove my right to arm myself. Personally, I feel that to do so violates me in a very fundamental way irregardless of any constitutional backup.
December 31st, 2009 at 10:22 am
I personally despise guns and what they do, however we, as Americans, could do well to quit trying to always come up with something new, and instead analyse what has been done in other countries. Canada and Japan for instance. Both have very strict gun ownership laws. Has this decreased their homicide rate? No!!! Canada leads the world in deaths by bludgeoning, and Japan leads the world in deaths from swords. If we want to kill someone we’ll do it in whatever way suits us best. Availability of firearms is not a determining factor.
December 31st, 2009 at 10:22 am
Switzerland: The country with the lowest violent crime rate in the free world
Switzerland: The only first-world country where citizens aged 19 and older are REQUIRED to own guns
(at age 19, every Swiss citizen must enroll in the armed forces for one year and must undergo training on the responsibility and privilege of firearm users. They are issued a gun and required to keep it, or a different one, for their entire lives)
Switzerland: has NEVER fought a war
Case in point. We MUST have the right to bear arms as a country. If not, then those who illegally smuggle them can exercise force over law-abiding citizens who don’t own guns.
December 31st, 2009 at 10:22 am
We are much safer with an armed public.
The 2nd Amendment is there to protect the rest of the Bill of Rights. The founding fathers knew that without it, the government could take those rights away at will.
Why do you think it comes 2nd only behind the freedom of speech and assembly?
December 31st, 2009 at 10:22 am
We need our firearms as citizens. Not only is it a right it is a way of life for some Americans. I personally live by the slogan of you’ll have to pry my gun from my cold dead fingers.
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." -George Orwell
December 31st, 2009 at 10:22 am
No I love the USA.
December 31st, 2009 at 10:22 am
I want a society that you can have gun(s) if you do not have a police record and are of legal age like the age to vote. Also you must be responsible for the storage and keeping of these guns so the children get hold them.
If criminals thought that people might be packing a gun there would be less car jacking, homes burgalized, and robbery of banks and stores. Even sky jacking would be reduced.
We Americans should all have the right to bear arms and defend our familiels. Our country was founded on GUNS GUTS AND ?