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I understand that. We NEED cars, We don't need guns. You get that?
Fortunately, my rights aren't limited by your subjective interpretation of need.
But your right to bear arms are base on obsolete notions and subjective opinions, as well. So? Relax, nobody is going to break into your house and take your guns any time soon. It took a while for notions to change, like attitudes regarding smoking. A generation or two, and I predict guns will eventually be banned or extremely difficult to obtain and own. Morals and ideals change, it used to be legal to own slaves, too.
What is obsolete about self defense......do you think the Mexicans across the border think the right to have guns is obsolete as the government with their drug cartel masters murder them in the thousands...and they have no guns to stop it?
I swear....you left wing regressives think that history only began when you woke up this morning.....
Our facts are not subjective opinions......actual research, actual statistics support everything we tell you about guns...not one thing you believe about guns is true......research and statistics show you are wrong on every single aspect of the issue.
Not opinion...fact.
Times have changed. People used to able to buy machine guns out of mail order catalogues, and we didn't have mass murders in schools or killing sprees. Mail order machine guns didn't sell very well, because Americans had a sense of solidarity. Didn't need em'. But the mafia bought em' up like hot cakes, hence the term Chicago typewriter or chopper, they were
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bad. bad people are abusing current gun laws. So your logic is, we NEED firearms to protect us from other people that HAVE firearms? That seems more like a vicious cycle than a solution.
No.....you just stated the point....normal people did not use machine guns to murder other people...criminals did....and they still got them after they were made illegal....and normal people still didn't use them to murder people.
Today.....with 357,000,000 million guns in private hands, normal people are still not using them to commit crime or murder....
The gun murder total for 2014 from the FBI table 8 on homicide was 8,124. Keeping in mind that 90% of murderers have criminal records and histories of violence, and that 70-80% of gun murder victims are also criminals with long histories of crime and violence.....that leaves the gun murder rate of innocent, non criminal affiliated murder at about 1,624 people...in a country of over 320,000,000.
So, if you subtract that from 357,000,000 you get 356,991,876 million guns in private hands that were not used to commit murder.
Have you stopped to contemplate what those numbers mean? Normal people...with all of those guns, are not using them for violence or irresponsibly.......in 2013 there were only 505 accidental gun deaths when we had 320,000,000 guns in private hands...compared to 35,000 accidental car deaths and 3,000 accidental drownings.
On top of that 1,500,000 guns in private hands were used to actually stop violent crime and save lives..according to bill clinton.
So your entire premise is wrong. Your beliefs about guns in the United States are untrue, and not based in the reality.
Then for more reality...look at our border. Just across the border you have complete gun control. Normal Mexican citizens cannot legally get a gun....it is a Right in their constitution, but is not allowed by their politicians who control access. So the Texas counties that border Mexico have more guns than the Mexican states on the other side of the border....more guns in Texas legally owned.......few if any legally owned in Mexico......and gun murder in the Mexican states next to the Texas gun owning states is catastrophic......and very little in Texas.
You guys are terrified of normal people owning guns...and that fear is unjustified. It is not based in actual behavior by normal Americans, yet you want to take guns away from the people who do not abuse them.
Of course, the bad guys will still get guns easily.....I post article after article about how easy it is for criminals in Britain, Australia and Europe to get guns...it is just not possible for normal citizens in those countries to get guns. You guys then point to lower murder rates over there...but refuse to acknowlege that before they confiscated guns, those countries already had low murder rates...because of cultural differences, not gun access. How do we know it is culture and not access...because after these countries banned guns...their gun crime rates stayed the same..........
Again, normal people do not misuse guns.
Even our gun accident rate had gone down. This year it has gone up by about 81 accidental deaths....but gun ownership has gone up by 37,000,000 million guns since 2013.......and you guys are the ones who fight gun safety education in public schools.....not us.
Everything you believe about gun ownership in this country is wrong...not true, and not based in reality. And yet you want us to listen to you about gun control.....how real is that?
And you have no understanding of history....we show you time and again where unarmed people have been murdered by their governments...all over the world...and the one thing they had in common....the government had guns...the people were disarmed.
Then you say...but a few people with guns wouldn't make a difference......that is why we say that shows that wide spread gun ownership is needed.....in the Jewish Ghetto in Poland, the Jews only had 10 pistols....and held of the Germans for weeks. If the entire civilian population of Poland had widespread gun ownership...the ability of the Germans to hold the country would have been impossible.....especially if each country in Europe had widespread civilian ownership of guns...which they didn't.
Once the German army defeated the poorly led militaries of all of those countries...the civilians had no choice but to submit....
Except for Switzerland. They had 435,000 armed civilians......and the Germans chose not to invade...they invaded everyone else, but not Switzerland...too big of a headache....and Switzerland did not have a holocaust....the rest of Europe handed over 12 million innocent men, women and children to the Germans for murder........
So....we will have to disagree.