StaccatoSo when are you getting your land mines and napalm?
As soon as the NFA stamp gets back.
sudo22I don’t want either. But since I assume you’re implying these are illegal, landmines are legal for citizens to own with either an NFA tax stamp (about $200 each) or with a SOT/FFL (about $600/year) and napalm like substances are easy to produce yourself (I’m not sure on it legal standing, but criminals aren’t exactly concerned with the law).
Ah, so then you understand that the government is allowed to regulate and distribute the usage of some weapons, glad you pointed that out.
Ooh ooh ooh, my favorite!
criminals exist and do not follow the law, therefore law should not exist
totally a big smart boy take and definitely NOT smooth brained nonsense
Not what I said. You’re extrapolating what you think someone who is pro gun rights would say.
Not the person you replied to, but I’ll give you a chance. I’m not American, but I do hunt and own guns.
Why are you against the government having a licensing program before giving access to firearms?
FireTowerThe American understanding of rights is that they are inherent and bestowed upon all of not by the government but by right at birth.
We have the right to criticize our government not because they let us but because that’s are right all humans have. Even if the government decided tomorrow that the First Amendment doesn’t apply anymore we would still have that right, because the First Amendment didn’t grant us a right it simply acknowledged the existing right.
If your ability to practice a right is contingent on government approval your rights are being impeded.
Lev_AstovPeople just don’t understand or appreciate natural rights anymore and it saddens me.
Civics should be taught for much longer than it is in K-12.
It’s in the top 3 issues I have with the current wave of leftist populism for sure.
People have been brainwashed by billionaires to give them more rights than the common man. They’re fools, but too ignorant to even realize it
Flying SquidAre you equating owning a gun with criticizing the government? Because I’m not seeing the connection.
Owning a gun is the logical step from the natural right to defend your life. If you are under threat of death by another individual, why in the fuck would you ever willingly put yourself at a disadvantage. Does your moral grounds of guns = bad really overvalue the rest of your natural life?
Someone invades your home, you grab a knife, congratulations knives are far more dangerous than a gun for every participant of the struggle and you have now made it statistically more likely to accidentally kill yourself. You use your hands, disadvantaged against someone with a weapon, death.
The point is literally that you have a personal freedom from birth to keep yourself alive and in a world that has afforded us better and better tools to ensure that, use them.
Statistically, having a gun in your home is more dangerous for you and your family, especially if you have young children or teens. A 2014 review in the Annals of Internal Medicine concluded having a firearm in the home, even when it’s properly stored, doubles your risk of becoming a victim of homicide and triples the risk of suicide.3
www.safewise.com/resources/guns-at-home/
Doesn’t sound like an advantage to me.
Correlation does not equal causation.
Someone might choose to own a firearm because they feel like they’re at an elevated risk for victimization (ex. they’ve been threatened by a crazy ex) or someone who has suicidal ideation might go out an purchase a firearm for the purpose of commiting suicide. The acquisition of the firearm didn’t cause either preexisting condition.
Please explain why exactly we shouldn’t be doing everything we can to prevent suicide. This should be interesting.
My personal opinion on the matter is that we should target the motivation not the means. People are miserable, isolated, and feel less upwards mobility. We wouldn’t try and solve the issue of people jumping off buildings with suicide nets.
Funny, people like you always say that, and yet when it’s suggested that we massively fund mental health care, people like you always balk at that.
People like me? You literally don’t even know me. And funding health care alone isn’t going to fix the problem we also need economic reform to address the rising wealth disparity in the country.
Please do not try and lump everyone you encounter into boxes as a means of discrediting them. If you have an issue with anything I’ve said that’s perfectly fine, but do not blame me for the actions of others.
I have yet to meet someone who believes gun ownership should be totally unrestricted and unregulated who doesn’t also think we shouldn’t have universal healthcare, but you could be the first.
Having a certain opinion on one topic doesn’t proclude you from having a certain opinion on another topic. You have no duty to adhere to the party lines of political parties you didn’t form.
Interesting way of avoiding what I suggested.
We should but be stripping people of their freedom, and then hide behind the invalid excuse that it could potentially “reduce suicide”.
I can hog tie you in a small dark room, and feed you though a tube. You’ll never be able to kill yourself, so you can NOT object because clearly you’d be evil to not allow me to do everything I can to prevent suicide
Or… and stop me if this is too complicated… we could make it so that it isn’t as easy to buy a gun as it is to buy a plate of pancakes.
Retarded comment
Blocked for bigotry.
The connection is both are natural rights recognized in the Bill of Rights that should be held with equal reverence. They are the second and first amendments respectively.
How is owning a gun a ‘natural right’ when guns didn’t even exist for the vast, vast majority of human existence? That doesn’t make sense either.
The natural right to own arms is nested in the natural right to defend oneself with the best means available. A few thousand years ago that might have only extended to sticks and stones, a few thousand in the future that might extend to laser rifles and plasma pistols.
Who gets to decide what the best means available is? What if I decide the best means to defend myself is a glass vial of ricin and a gas mask? Okay to use it if I feel threatened?
That doesn’t completely ring true. The Second was written to ensure the well-regulated militia (which has slowly morphed into a standing military) that would be needed to protect the free society.
The militia that was comprised of and armed by the people. That well regulated part meaning fully functional by being trained in tactics and doctrine to work with other militias and divisions. The Militia Act further confirmed the individual right to arms, outlining that the members were required to report with their own guns, ammo, and rations. While we may have a standing army now, and the reserves and Guard units, that doesn’t change the fact that the Second was and is an individual right to military arms for personal and State protection. If anyone believes that we no longer need this, then find enough people that agree to amend the constitution. Until then, we don’t get to pick and choose which rights get defended.
An individual right that you yourself seem to agree requires proper training in tactics and doctrine.
There’s a huge gap between a well-trained, disciplined gun owner and these “guns as my personality” chucklefucks that have absolutely no discipline in their behavior.
Licensure is one tool to separate the wheat from the chaff, and it doesn’t violate the above percepts as long as it doesn’t impose a substantial financial burden.
You have my perspective slightly backwards. The trained militia is contingent on having an armed populace to draw from, not the other way around. It is not the right to be trained and then armed as a soldier, but the general right to bear arms. I do think that gun safety, training and handling should still be taught in school like it used to because there are more guns than people in this country, but don’t believe that any of your natural rights as outlined in the Bill of Rights have any requirements to meet to practice. The “guns as a personality” chuckle fuck has the same right to bear arms that you or anyone else does, until or unless such time as he loses that right through criminal conviction. I also don’t support losing voting rights, gun rights, or any rights for non-violent offenses, especially non-violent drug offenses which shouldn’t be criminalized anyway. Innocent until proven guilty, without a need to establish a baseline of innocence first through taking a test or being investigated by the police.
Requiring licensure is an infringement that no other constitutional right requires. There is a huge gap between an educated journalist and a wacked out conspiracy theorist making vaccine conspiracy their entire personality too, but even though they indirectly or directly caused or contributed to an unknown percentage of millions of deaths, it is unconstitutional to require them to go take classes and get a license to speak on TV or on the internet or in public. If you have to ask permission from a governing body to exercise it, it’s not a right it’s a privilege. Freedoms come with risk, the founders knew this and thought it was worth it, which is why it was enshrined in our founding documents.
This is a ban. Not “a licensing program”. Did you not even read the damn title?
or maybe they meant you should be able to protect yourself from the people that want to do you harm… But what do I know…
CLEARLY nothing because everyone knows that misrepresenting your opponent to force your own dogma into the conversation without any level of actual intelligence just to get the heckin moral superiorityino is the proper way to discuss these days.
I love it when they say that. Guess what? Criminals don’t follow murder and rape laws when they murder and rape people. Should those laws be taken off the books too?
What’s smooth brained is being retarded enough to give up your right to self defense because of lobbying on the behalf of a couple of billionaires
My firearms and I will be completely fine.
All of the rotting corpses of school shooting victims may have an issue though
What invalid, manipulative, moronic bullshit
Care to explain your arguments there or are you just being emotional?
Tons of children dead in America. Tons of school shootings. Once we decided Sandy Hook was fine and acceptable and did absolutely nothing to help prevent something like it from happening again, our fate was sealed. Regardless of whether you or anyone else think that’s irrelevant or invalid or moronic is all well and good, it won’t bring them back
Care to explain your argument, or are you just being emotional?
It’s excellent to see that you have nothing else to add. Have a good one.
I have plenty to add, you just have emotional senselessness
Do you support your local PD?
I do, I support the defunding of my local PD
Can you enlighten me on that? How does it work if you want to ban “assault weapons” and defund the police? Isn’t that counter intuitive? A police state is almost required to enforce the laws that are put in place like this. I have a difficult time understanding how that works.
Enlighten me on where I said those words in that order. Even paraphrasing.
What absolutely blows my mind are the gun sucking, boot munching morons who somehow simultaneously hate any kind of government overreach but would let a cop do anything they wanted to anyone they knew without blinking an eye. Now how does that make any sense? I thought we had the second amendment to protect ourselves? Are we really always gonna rely on fucking obese white supremacist Copper Dan to help in our time of need? Those goddamn little bitch babies in Uvalde certainly didn’t rise to the occasion, what makes you think they’d do anything to help you?
I have a difficult time understanding how that works. I fail to see how that’s my problem.
My bad for assuming that we were engaging in mature discourse about gun restriction enforcement and who is responsible for it.
It’s clear now that you’re not interested in a conversation. Your just looking for someone to nod their head and agree with you instead of asking questions.
Yes, it is your bad for asking stupid questions. Gun restriction enforcement is done by the government.
Nice attempt to take the high road though. Acting like you’re better than everyone else on the internet won’t fix anything.