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I'm from NW Florida. Everyone has guns for different reasons. I have a few and I carry one all the time. I love 2A and wish those who are intimidated by guns should just stay out of my state.
We need less strict laws and have open carry violence would drop drastically
A Britain talking about gun control is equivalent to an American telling an African that they should keep those animals in the jungle behind fences
We need some serious gun control. That's why I vote democrat for gun control an republican on most other issues
America will never enjoy the security of countries such as Singapore or Switzerland because the focus is on self. Countries that put society first for the greater good of all its citizens will always prevail.
.Before a creator inspired nation of Freedom & Liberty can be turned into a Godless Satan inspired new world order/ great reset [you name it] government/ élite controlled slave nation, guns must first be collected! Because IF it was all about saving lives we would stop paying big pharma to make patent bio weapons' like their SARS & SARTS 2 Coved 19 that just killed 60 million people, in order for them to force experimental jabs on us Godless, gullible dumb-down educated suckers & fools! I.E. facts brain dead Godless critical thinking free can't even process! I.E. like the folks who lived next door to Nazi crematoriums couldn't process burnt flesh odor filling the air! I.E. evidence of well brainwashed Godless suckers & fools! I.E same as we have here in mass baby kill, [& leading cause of iatrogenic death] I.E. our beloved/ Dr. Fauci's medical cartel! [IF] you can believe the Johns Hopkins low-ball] iatrogenic study claiming medicine kills on average 250,000 each year that's [684.9] each day! [look it up] Then look up, Dr. Null’s book, “Death by Medicine” documenting 760,000 iatrogenic deaths annually! Stuff Gun laws won’t protect Godless future slaves from! God help us!
None of these people could take them from me. I guess they want to send… people with guns to do it?
No we dont
We will not be swayed and give up our arms with a tyrannical and corrupt media and government. Keep in mind Brandon wants to team up with the WHO to force inject us. Those that are mentally I’ll are mostly not going to be helped as the big pharma poisons are clinically useless or dangerous.
Gun control is hitting the target.
Today, I placed my Glock pistol on the table right next to my front door. I left its magazine beside it, then left it alone and went about my business.
While I was gone, the mailman delivered my mail, the neighbor's son across the street mowed the yard, a girl walked her dog down the street, and quite a few cars stopped at the "stop" sign near the front of my house.
After about an hour, I checked on the gun and it was quietly sitting there, right where I had left it. It had not moved itself outside. It had not killed anyone, even with the numerous opportunities it had been presented to do that. In fact, it had not even loaded itself.
Well you can imagine my surprise, with all the hype by the Left and the media, about how dangerous guns are and “How They” kill people. Either the media is wrong, or I'm in possession of the laziest gun in the world.
The United States is 3rd in murders throughout the world. But if you take out just 5 'left-wing' cities: Chicago, Detroit, Washington DC, St Louis and New Orleans — the United States is 4th from the bottom, in the ENTIRE world, for murders.
These 5 cities are controlled by Democrats. They also have the toughest gun control laws in the USA. It would be absurd to draw any conclusions from this data, right?
Well, I'm off to check on my spoons. I hear they're making people fat!
We have enough gun control. We need idiot control
Why should I care about what non-Americans have to say about our gun laws?
The ones in Mexico are my favorite. As if the cartels care about the gun laws. Especially considering they got them from Obama and Eric holder in operation fast and furious; where they essentially gave thousands of guns to them.
"Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered. Any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary."
– Karl Marx
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Educating your people before you hand them guns… like in Switzerland, where every man gets a Lüger and an AK after serving the Army for 2 years. Besides, if you provide every citizen with a gun, must be fun walking around in the US… not.
Are people this daft? Do people not realize that most people that commit crimes with a gun, don't legally own one … stricter laws hurts the citizen not the criminal.
Anti gun freedom ignorants have to go all the way back to 1989 to prove their warped point !!
I'd like to see a society that isn't ignorant of the fact that the greatest threat to humanity has been tyrants who have abused their unarmed citizens:
Death Comparisons:
Nazi Germany: 9,000,000
Soviet Union: 30,000,000
China: 55,000,000
VS.
Mass Shootings In USA: >3000
The 2nd Amendment stands.
MARCH 23, 2007 by Marko Kloos
WHY THE GUN IS CIVILIZATION
Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that’s it.
In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.
When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force. The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gangbanger, and a single gay guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.
There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we’d be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger’s potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat–it has no validity when most of a mugger’s potential marks are armed. People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that’s the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.
Then there’s the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser. People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don’t constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level. The gun is the only weapon that’s as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weightlifter. It simply wouldn’t work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn’t both lethal and easily employable.
When I carry a gun, I don’t do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I’m looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don’t carry it because I’m afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn’t limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation…and that’s why carrying a gun is a civilized act.
ref: https://www.northwestfirearms.com/threads/why-the-gun-is-civilization-an-essay-by-marko-kloos.48753/
I'm not political I do have family on both sides tho. I just wasn't raised being taught about politics. So I'm not speaking from a certain side but I am a gun owner. I own 6 guns. However I don't hunt. Just for self defense. I do believe people need to educate themselves about guns instead of fearing them. But I also believe in background checks. Obviously there are people who do not need guns. And I'm a correctional officer so yeah i know criminals.
Gun controls in America is a joke!
“It should be hard to get a gun” -Someone whose county was taken over by a dictator 80 years ago
Funny how that one girl was talking about how theirs too much guns coming from the US to Mexico. I wonder what will fix that, maybe building a wall?
Second Amendment to the United States Constitution – "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Fundamentally what created our country was our ability as a people to rise against the government as they become tyrannical in nature.
The Second Amendment IS the voice of the people, with no Second Amendment there is no First. Without even considering the empirical data, and self defense arguments which have merit of their own, it allows the people the option of non-compliance to Government which without, is forfeit. I'm going to take a shot in the dark and imagine that Hong Kong's protests don't favor the protestors having to fight back against THEIR tyrannical government with archery equipment. If you disagree with Government or Politics, the 2nd Amendment is the right of the PEOPLE. I may have been born in Korea, but I was raised American, Protect the FREE PEOPLE
Nevada is America's last line of defense for freedom. California's gun control is spreading faster than COVID-19, Look into Nevada's 2nd Amendment groups, God Speed!!
Nope not right now we need to protect ourselves from the choosen people remember if u dont steal it someone else will and I want my guns..
Foreign perspective? This old man didn’t fight so foreigners can have a say. Whatever they think DOESN’T matter and if they want to control my possession of arms they better come here and try to snatch them out of my hands. Warning: I shoot really fast.
Stricter gun laws only makes it strict for citizens to legally armed themselves. Sticker gun laws won't stop criminals from having guns. Let look at all the state with the most strictest gun laws. And research how many criminals still use guns. Only tyrannic politicians will use cover ups, lies, defraud, use deception, to keep the under raps to disarm people for their own agenda. Keep the easy idiot citizens ignorant.
I am guessing they didn't go to Switzerland where over 25% of people own guns and have around than 1 gun homicide per year
Because that’s how America was granted its independence and how it became a nation.
No we don’t
Vice propoganda trash
They can have mine when they pry it from my. Cold dead hands. Hot and smoking. Confication in civil war people. Careful what u wish 4!!