2ukenkerl wrote:
oscuria wrote:
I'm not really moved by it. It has become the norm these days.
I find it laughable that people in America still claim a constitutional right to "bear arms". I want it to reach the Supreme Court and limited because a) It is not true and b) there are people in this country, and this world, that do not need to have weapons in their hands.
It IS true! Taken the way leftists decipher it makes NO sense!
You NEED guns to defend against them.
It is ALREADY illegal for felons to own guns, and for people in several states to own guns, but they STILL end up using guns to kill people.
Laws do NOT limit the ability of the guilty and reckless. They merely restrict or hinder the innocent.
My leftist and/or liberal friends who're also NRA members (it does happen, you know -- and more and more leftists are understanding the point of the 2nd amendment) would be in full agreement. I live in a state that tends to lean left in politics (even elects socialists) and also has pretty much no gun laws other than don't take them in courts or schools, and then the federal laws. It's no more violent here than anywhere else, and with everyone aware that someone could be carrying a concealed weapon, it's safer in some ways because people are more wary of attacking other people.
Plus, the reason the amendment was there in the first place, was in case the government ever did all the things that caused the Revolution to happen. They wanted to build in safeguards in case it started looking more like a monarchy again.
Additionally, what a lot of people also don't understand is that guns are for a lot of people tools. A lot of poor people hunt to survive. In rural areas, there's often no cops around or means to defend oneself against animals.
Using guns against people is mostly against my religion (I say "mostly" because we don't have anything fully written in stone, since there are exceptions to most situations, but we just require a lot of reflection to figure out whether something is an exception vs. taking the easy way out), but I understand the point behind all this nonetheless, and there
are points to guns that have nothing to do with killing people, and in some cases have to do with keeping people alive.
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