Ok, so, there's been a rash of killings, specifically shootings, in the nation recently. Whole bunch of them. Immigrants taking classes on becoming citizens, police...all sorts of things. For no reason.
I mean, seriously. Why would you want to kill people who are trying to better themselves? They just want to become citizens and live in America. Good for them! They aren't going to be living here illegally, so more power to them! But then, what police suspect to be a student at the school for citizenship came in and opened fired, killing two receptionists and some students. Why? Why? Did you suddenly realize that America may not be what you thought it was or something? What the hell?
But what really gets me is one that happened yesterday. This guy thought that Obama was going to take away the right to bear arms (...yeah. Don't think so. Constitution and all that). So, what does he do? Locks himself in his mother's house (well, that right there is something), takes some gunz, and has his mother, who has locked herself in her basement, call the the police. Police show up, and the dude is like "OH HAI HEADSHOTS." Two officers go down. One nearby responds to the call, and is shot in the hand. When all is said and done, 100 rounds have been exchanged from the dude and the police, three police are dead, two wounded, and the dude made an EXCELLENT case of WHY GUNS SHOULD BE CONTROLLED. Which was EXACTLY WHAT HE WAS AGAINST. Seriously, dude, did you think that one through? Really? REALLY? To prove your point, you GO AGAINST your own argument? What the hell? That's a huge fallacy, if you ask me.
Now, what WOULD happen if we had gun control? Let's look at Japan, one of two major countries (the other being Brazil) to have major gun control laws. In Japan, there are three groups that have guns. The police, who have handguns that are attached to them via steel cables, hutners, who are allowed to have shotguns, and the Yakuza, who have guns illegally (what would mobsters be without guns, after all?). How often are people killed in Japan because of shootings. Hardly ever. As in, if someone is shot and killed, it's national news. And this includes shootings between gun-running Yakuza. Anyone who is shot.
Whereas, there's probably at least a shooting a day in some major cities in America, and only the big, mass-killings or police slayings make it to the news. In Japan, anything involving a shooting is news, because it never happens. See, people don't need guns to protect themselves, because no one else has guns. Yakuza do, sure, but they only shoot other Yakuza, and they think of themselves as "the people's police" due to their honor code.
It's just crazy.
Anyway, food for thought. I realize that getting the US anywhere near Japan's level of gun control is nigh impossible, but in a perfect world, we wouldn't need guns. Meh. People are stupid.
Can't stop the signal, Mal.
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Here's my take on the Second amendment. The idea was several fold:
ReplyDelete1) so that, if the nation became ruled by a tyrant who used martial law to oppress the people, the people would have a means to rise up.
2) So that people could have a means to defend themselves from outlaws possessing guns (if you outlaw guns than ouly outlaws wil carry them, etc)
3) as a legitimizing factor allowing the militias to be formed, militias which aided the war against England.
While I can understand the 2nd reason fairly well (as well as someone who is a crack shot and a violent videogame player but doesnt actually own a gun, I dont think that the forefathers saw street gangs or automatic rifles coming. While there is some form of legitimacy in all three of these reasons (enough to make the preservation of the freedom a nearly airtight case) I would not be personally opposed to stricter gun control laws.
As the father of one of the Colombine School Shooting victims said, "a TEC-9 isn't used for hunting deer"
I have no idea what this man was thinking..and it is upsetting
ReplyDeleteI agree with Arno in saying that our fore fathers had no idea that gangs and automatic rifles would be coming down the road, because if they could of foreseen the future they probably would of have changed the wording in the Second amendment. In regards to the orginal posting I agree with the writer in what were these people thinking-especially with the guy who opposed gun-control-especially considering he made the point that really do need some heavy type of gun control in the US. But I doubt that will ever happen we have to many gun-toting Republicans demanding their constitutional right to bear-arms. Please stop me because once I get on my soap box-I'll never quit.
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