Quote:
Originally Posted by Vectra
I probably see this differently to most people here but believe there is no reason why anyone needs or should have any type of automatic weapon be it semi or otherwise, these can be taken out of circulation by a change in the law and reduce the death toll significantly seen all over the country.
There are no valid arguments about second amendment rights and citizens freedoms that justify the current situation where mass shooting of large groups of people are so easy to perpetrate by any member of the public that might be a perfectly law abiding citizen one day and have a breakdown the next.
The reason I see it differently is because I am not American but English and have lived through the change of gun laws in the UK where just 2 mass killings was enough for the government of the time to act and abolish just about all guns in circulation and have seen no mass shooting since.
I currently live in Spain where similar strict gun laws make gun crime something that you just don’t think about, it happens but in such small numbers it’s not given a thought and personal safety is almost guaranteed with violent crime again minimal even in parts of towns and city’s that may not be the best.
I now own a house near the Villages and love everything about it and enjoy my time spent there and the friends I have made but am more than aware that shootings are happening at least once a month sometimes weekly within a few miles of my home there and consciously go home before the bad guys come out each evening and am slightly on edge in situations that I would never be in Europe.
Someone needs to have the balls to stand up to the NRA and say enough’s enough and that this type of carnage can and needs to be brought to an end for all the thousands of innocent people who have lost their lives so needlessly over the last few years and for all those who will lose their lives in the future if something isn’t done.
|
Let me give you some political insights. There is no political will in the United States to ban semi-automatic firearms. There are many millions of semi-automatic pistols, rifles, and shotguns in America. Even if your proposed law were passed, most would disappear, to reappear on the black market. They
are not going away.
YOU may not be happy with our Second Amendment, but there are hundreds of millions of Americans who are. Free people have the liberty to arm themselves.
You're English? I remember England. It's that country which had disarmed it's citizenry, and when threatened by German invasion during World War II had to have thousands of
Americans send their personal firearms to England to arm the Home Guard. The American Committee for the Defense of British Homes - Wikipedia
You live in Spain? And you think that gun control laws in a country of 46.56 million with no Second Amendment, would work in a nation of 323.1 million which has had a Second Amendment since its inception? Well.........no.
You are wise to go home before the bad guys come out. Those of us from a different tradition, with the liberty to go out armed, and confident in our capabilities, don't observe a curfew.
Finally, here is a fact of life in America. There is a term for legislators who "have the balls to stand up to the NRA." They are called "former congressmen."
.