This was my first YouTube video and I filmed it specifically to spark a conversation around the second amendment.
Don't you have the right to bear arms as part of a government organized militia only?
Your message is incredibly alienating for me - unfortunately.
I want to be a free citizen. That's what I love about America. I don't want to fear subjection, or have my choices, life or rights constrained or limited in any unfair manner.
Which is the threat that your guns pose to me. There's no protection or comfort radiating from you to me - I have no idea of your mental health, your intentions or thoughts. For all I know, you're a loony toon here to shoot up a school.
An armed citizenry is a citizenry that is fully empowered to destroy or harm the lives of their fellow citizens. I reject that. I don't need to live my life in a hyper-militaristic state, having my freedoms constrained by the threats of others, where my or my family's safety is staked on how well I can handle weapons.
Heck no.
For me a life free of violence and of threat > tyranny of guns.
Your message is incredibly alienating for me - unfortunately.
I want to be a free citizen. That's what I love about America. I don't want to fear subjection, or have my choices, life or rights constrained or limited in any unfair manner.
Which is the threat that your guns pose to me. There's no protection or comfort radiating from you to me - I have no idea of your mental health, your intentions or thoughts. For all I know, you're a loony toon here to shoot up a school.
An armed citizenry is a citizenry that is fully empowered to destroy or harm the lives of their fellow citizens. I reject that. I don't need to live my life in a hyper-militaristic state, having my freedoms constrained by the threats of others, where my or my family's safety is staked on how well I can handle weapons.
Heck no.
For me a life free of violence and of threat > tyranny of guns.
It's the cities with gun rights that harm Chicago.You would be better off in a city with more gun rights, given how staggering Chicago's gun violence is compared to how difficult it is to legally purchase a gun there.
It's the cities with gun rights that harm Chicago.
Being oppressed, is being oppressed, regardless of the source. Guns are tools that more efficiently transform the intent to kill or harm into action than most other accessible tools. If the citizenry HAD to be armed for whatever reason, I'd prefer them to have less efficient tools - like knives.I've never seen anyone state flat out that they don't like people bearing arms because they are afraid of the people. I've always suspected that's what is behind promotion of gun confiscation, but I don't recall actually seeing that stated before.
It's a shame that a person would be that fearful of other citizens in general. Some areas with the highest level of gun possession are also the most peaceful, so it's not the guns per se.
Removing guns does not necessarily remove the danger of violent death. Several people were just killed or injured in London by someone using a knife.
There's no question that most of the violence in the US on a per capita basis is in inner city areas. Much of this is not crime or gang related but just stupid poor anger management stuff involving young men. Maybe we ought to outlaw testosterone, but it seems pretty clear that frisking young men on the streets in these areas looking for guns saved a lot of lives and was the right thing to do. Confiscating guns from law abiding sportsmen and the like is not the right thing to do and would do nothing to reduce violent deaths.
It's the cities with gun rights that harm Chicago.
Your message is incredibly alienating for me - unfortunately.
I want to be a free citizen. That's what I love about America. I don't want to fear subjection, or have my choices, life or rights constrained or limited in any unfair manner.
Which is the threat that your guns pose to me. There's no protection or comfort radiating from you to me - I have no idea of your mental health, your intentions or thoughts. For all I know, you're a loony toon here to shoot up a school.
An armed citizenry is a citizenry that is fully empowered to destroy or harm the lives of their fellow citizens. I reject that. I don't need to live my life in a hyper-militaristic state, having my freedoms constrained by the threats of others, where my or my family's safety is staked on how well I can handle weapons.
Heck no.
For me a life free of violence and of threat > tyranny of guns.
Don't you have the right to bear arms as part of a government organized militia only?
If so what militia do you belong to?
What is the chance that you will be in a situation where having guns all over you will be a good thing and the chance of accidentally shooting your own balls off or shooting one of your kids?
Any chance at all that one of your kids gets drunk when he, or she, is 15 and plays with the assault rifles and kills somebody?
Any chance at all that a bad man will work out where your house is and know that there are lots of easily salable guns in it and break in when you are out?
Any chance that that bad man will do it when you are asleep and come into your bedroom with your guns?
It's the cities with gun rights that harm Chicago.
I want to start off by saying "Thank you" to everyone that has posted a reply to my message and especially to those that subscribed to my channel.
I welcome the debate, and I stand for everyone's right to agree or disagree with the need to own firearms - that's part of what makes America great!
I hope even those that disagree with the message in the video will take another look and check out some of the history I talked about. Being open minded in politics is not the most easy thing. But I can say from experience that having the sincerity to see flaws in those that share your opinion really helps you remove the wall between those that you disagree with you.
The Media (all media) wants us to be divided because it helps them retain control of the dialog. I challenge you to find someone this week that you disagree with and spend a little bit of time with them, take 'em to lunch - and don't even talk about politics - talk about your lives.
It's the cities with gun rights that harm Chicago.
No it's Chicagoans that harm Chicago. you people don't get to blame us for your problems. You don't want to work on problems so you scapegoat rural residents. how rich.
Being oppressed, is being oppressed, regardless of the source. Guns are tools that more efficiently transform the intent to kill or harm into action than most other accessible tools. If the citizenry HAD to be armed for whatever reason, I'd prefer them to have less efficient tools - like knives.
Just as I'd prefer government defense forces to be limited to conventional tools, rather than let's say, chemical or biological weapons.
If there's ever a threat from a despotic government, I don't want it to come barreling at me in the form of nerve gas or bombs filled with smallpox.
It's the cities with gun rights that harm Chicago.
It's the cities with gun rights that harm Chicago.
You mean silly laws banning guns aren't preventing criminals from using guns?
Don't you have the right to bear arms as part of a government organized militia only?
If so what militia do you belong to?
What is the chance that you will be in a situation where having guns all over you will be a good thing and the chance of accidentally shooting your own balls off or shooting one of your kids?
Any chance at all that one of your kids gets drunk when he, or she, is 15 and plays with the assault rifles and kills somebody?
Any chance at all that a bad man will work out where your house is and know that there are lots of easily salable guns in it and break in when you are out?
Any chance that that bad man will do it when you are asleep and come into your bedroom with your guns?
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