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Originally Posted by buggyone
In one of the recent threads, a poster stated that countries with stricter gun control had murder rates higher than the US. No doubt this is true.
How about countries that have much less government intervention in gun control than the US? Maybe some of the conservatives would like living in countries such as Somalia, Afghanistan, Sudan, Central African Republic, or Congo. No gun control from the government in those countries.
Personally, I feel that the hunting rifles, shotguns, target shooting or personal protection pistols are fine.
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Agree that everyday firearms like shotguns, handguns, target shooting, and other weapons should be legal. I still am having a lot of trouble buying the 2nd Amendment arguments that we need citizens with weapons like with those that 18th Century militias had with respect to the everyday situations they faced. They had to hunt to survive often and had to fend off Native American attacks as well as those from the various enemies of the English government, then of the US government. (fighting French invaders then English invaders)
Some people have to get their minds out of the Colonial mindset that the Framers of the US Constitution had. This is no longer their kind of world. Now we have assault weapons that can be modified to fire weapons at a very fast rate of speed. Why would anyone need an assault weapon of this kind in any everyday situation?? Even one that is not fully automatic?