The 2nd amendment was written to ensure that an armed citizenry could defend itself from a tyrannical government. It has nothing to do with fucking hunting and bringing that up is nothing more than a douchey straw man. You want to put more regulation on specific types of rifles and rifle accessories. Why not knives? Did you know more people are killed with knives every year than all types of rifles combined? The majority of the gun violence in this country is hand gun violence committed by gangs in metropolitan areas run by liberals. You guys never say boo about that. It's just that liberals only care about gun violence when it happens somewhere they might have been. Too close to home.
defend yourself from your government? lol, a rifle is not going to compete with the most powerful military in the world, equipped with drones, an air force, tanks, submarines, artillery and ballistic missiles. To hang on to that argument is beyond a douchey straw man, but coming from the biggest douchebag on this board I'm not surprised. and the knives straw man was even weaker.. typical mindless Fox News talking points.
Sorry you don't like facts. Fox News talks about knife murder counts being higher than rifles? Cool story, now why not address the fact? Fact: More people are murdered with knives in this country every year than with all rifles combined.
I'm with you , but that's not what green day was saying. He said no more guns to private citizens: As far as the ec, anything that will protect the rest of the country from having to be subjected to places like Chicago from dictating every election.
There are regulations on knives, especially in NY anyway. But if you are so concerned about knives, we can review those regulations right after we address guns. the typical Fox News talking points are about spinning the subject to something else, as if all problems in this world are mutually exclusive. we have a gun problem in this country. a big one, which is only getting bigger as the country tries to ignore it. it includes both legally and illegally purchased guns.
it would be impossible to remove all private gun ownership in this country. i wouldn't want to even if we could. in terms of ec, I would like to see them change the winner take all policy for the state's votes. that way your vote would mean something even if you live in a hard core red or blue state, and maybe even a third party could eventually evolve.
I'm not concerned with knife regulations. I just like to point out the foolishness of your argument. The gun problem in this country is handguns in inner cities run by liberals.
Yes but the the legally purchased guns are a drop in the pond compared to gun violence with illegally purchased guns. The problem with the gun law debate is that it can only possibly regulate legal gun sales, while people on the streets of Chicago will still be carrying on business unscathed. i don't know if people like green day don't realize the difference , or they just don't want to address where the real gun crime numbers are coming from. It's the same people who will take to the streets to protest a cop shooting someone in an area where illegal guns are rampant,and just about every teen has one. Try being a cop in one of those areas. it makes no sense , the left is constantly ignoring the real problems and attacking a rash instead of the cancer.
LOL... I hate to break it to you but if SHTF happens, the government won't be using any of that stuff. Do you envision an ICBM launch against Texas or Tomahawks being launched from a submarine at NYC? That's just beyond silly.
How about a squad of marines, tanks and air support? The point is that this isn't 1776, and the government has weapons that weren't even thought of then. A few glorified campers with rifles isn't stopping the US government. That is why that argument is weak and dated. If the goal was for private citizens to compete with the US military, then all weapons would need to be legal. Should red necks be packing RPG's to take down choppers? Where is the acceptable line?
That may be true, but the only way around it is to change the constitution. Because that is the original intent. Talk about a slippery slope, we can start amending the whole paper to appease the loudest groups feelings
My argument is for common sense gun laws. The foolishness is trying to distract from that argument with other unrelated topics.
"Common sense gun laws" Typical meaningless words from liberals. What we should do is make it illegal to murder people and then we'd never have these problems.
So again, I'm not suggesting removing all guns from American society. If a couple fools want to run around the woods playing militia, let them go ahead (even tho they are accomplishing nothing). Common sense gun laws won't affect that, although it may affect their magazine capacities or specific types of guns they have. That doesn't change the 2nd amendment.
What are "common sense gun laws"? It's definitely not what NYC has where it's close to impossible for a law abiding citizen without NYPD connections to get a handgun permit.
Here's my common sense gun law. Train all highschool kids on firearm safety and require all citizens old enough to vote to carry a gun.
Like Baptist churches down south? Or country music festivals? That's not where all the lefties I know tend to hang.
This is actually a good fucking idea, for a number of reasons, maybe not the carry part, but still. Marry that with some kind of limit on the number of guns you can legally acquire, and limit manufacturers' ability to market high capacity magazines and I think that'll get somewhere.
