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Originally Posted by Professor S
I'd say something about how Canadians are taught American history
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We learn Canadian history in Canada.
Anyways, all I'll say about the gun laws is this:
They're out-dated, and un-needed. People need guns for one thing, hunting.
I stand by my statement of guns beget more guns.
If you have a knife to defend against a guy with fists, he'll get a knife. If you have a gun to defend your home against a guy with a knife, the next guy will have a pistol. If you get a shotgun to defend that pistol, the next guy will have two shotguns. If you get a mounted turret to protect against a guy with two shotguns, he'll get explosives.
The system never ends, and it
is that 'constitutional law' to have guns that not only started the chain of events you have in your country, but keeps it progressing.
And I honestly think all of the United States' violence and gang problems stem from that one single 'right'.
It started as a way to backhandedly cut down on policing and government armament. If people police themselves, all is well. It was a few hundred years ago after all. But as time went on and civilization evolved and advances into a technological age, the right to have a deadly weapon remains, and is backed up with "our forefathers said yadda yadda."
To which I say "
Big fucking whoop." It's 2010. 2000 years after Jesus, and
more than 200 years after some guy said "Sure, have a gun. Write that down there, too."
"Freedom to own a gun" is a joke. There is no such thing as freedom. If you want to talk about freedom run down the street naked and brandish your gun. Then say you have the right to have a gun, and be naked if you so choose. You're only as free as the rules allow you to be. And this is one specific case where nobody
anywhere in the world should be free to have a gun.
Guns beget guns, which beget bigger guns, which beget bigger guns.