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Cars: Made for driving
Alcohol: Made for drinking
Hands/Feet/Fists: Made for grabbing
Hammer: Made for hammering nails
Knives: Made for cutting food
Guns: Made for shooting,
See the difference?
Lawn darts were made as a game, until some fools decided to throw them at each other and people got killed.
Trying to assign purpose values to inanimate objects is stupid - humans have great skills at adapting anything they can place in their hands into a weapon, if they so desire.
Cars: Made for driving
Alcohol: Made for drinking
Hands/Feet/Fists: Made for grabbing
Hammer: Made for hammering nails
Knives: Made for cutting food
Guns: Made for shooting,
See the difference?
You're right, that doesn't mean we should turn a blind eye to guns though.
And only one of those things is SPECIFICALLY protected in the Bill of Rights... guess which...
That may be true, but in a country that was built on the gun, that developed with the gun and that has more guns in circulation than people, I'm pretty sure nobody in America is blind to guns. You're getting to the point where half the population is legally armed to protect themselves from the other half of the population that's illegally armed. Come up with a way to disarm the criminal elements, and you might get someone to listen.
Frankly, I'm ashamed of my country and their guns.
Is it hands/feet/fists? The right to bear arms?
On a more serious note, I agree, but you know what else there is in the constitution? Limits on every right :lol:
In my view, people taking their own protection into their own hands is an admirable quality. You need not be ashamed of your country and guns but there is a level of shame that can be associated with the lawlessness of a large part of your population that has guns illegally, uses guns illegally, and no more considers the life of a human being than they consider the life of a fly.
Frankly, I'm ashamed of my country and their guns.
Yes. My right to shoot a gun stops where your head begins.
My right to freedom of religion is not subject to only government-approved religions.
My right to free speech is not limited to spoken or printed material only, but also to all modern means of communication.
My right to be secure in my papers and person is supposed to extend to my electronic files and computers as well, thanks NSA.
Limitations placed on fundamental rights have to meet a strict standard of necessity, narrow construction, and least-restrictive-means.
Strongly implied in "necessity" is that the restrictions will ACTUALLY accomplish something rather than just being feel-good measures with no measureable effect.
Most gun control fails to meet this standard.
What I find a shame more than anything is that people are so close-minded that they won't even allow basic reforms like universal background checks to get passed.
I'm ashamed that you don't understand liberty, and why it is necessary for The People to retain a strong right of force rather than allowing it to be monopolized by government.
There are some people, and rightly so, who are leery of a government that wishes to infringe upon a constitutional right by dribs and drabs. What may be seen as basic reforms by some may be seen as a foot in the door towards breaking down that door and then clearing the room. Some people who don't trust government, and who can really blame them, aren't willing to let government get that foot in the door.
Like universal background checks?
Yes they are made for shooting but not just shooting people there are other applications as well just like the rest of that list.Cars: Made for driving
Alcohol: Made for drinking
Hands/Feet/Fists: Made for grabbing
Hammer: Made for hammering nails
Knives: Made for cutting food
Guns: Made for shooting,
See the difference?
I'm not saying I support the government monopolizing it. I just don't feel the need for a person to protect themselves with an assault rifle. I do understand liberty, what I don't understand is how you can talk of liberty when we lose 31,076 lives in a year (2010) to gun related violence. Who is advocating their lack of liberties?
Yes they are made for shooting but not just shooting people there are other applications as well just like the rest of that list.
Well i can agree with you partly. Really, who trusts the US gov't any more :2razz: