Even so, though shootings are a tragedy, it's a small price to pay for ensuring freedom. I was taught proper safety procedures while handling firearms and I haven't shot myself or anyone else, accidentally or purposefully. Let me pose to you a question in return; are you betting on the government existing to protect people forever and never acting in self interest, even if it forgets people over? It may not happen in my life, it may not happen in my child's life, it may not happen in my grandchild's life, but if a tyrannical usurpation of power in this country were to occur, what would you do? I hate to burst your bubble, but words don't work. The 2nd amendment is for moments like that hypothetical example; to protect from tyrants. Self defense and hunting are only secondary benefits to the right. The right question to ask is this: how do we stop bad, irresponsible people from acquiring firearms while keeping them in the hands of responsible citizens?
You're now using school shootings to try to justify punishing the responsible majority. If you really do care about keeping people safe, you would know that the vast majority of murders are committed with handguns. Rifles may look "scary" but statistically, handguns are much more dangerous. This is where the left goes wrong. They focus on high-capacity magazines and larger weapons, and I saw this first hand here in Connecticut.
I'm not against gun control, but I want to do SMART things, not knee-jerk things.
hit the nail on the head there bucko.
Terrorism and domestic shootings usually don't coincide. The point is being missed here, if you have to go through a few more hoops to purchase a firearm and that keeps some hooligan from buying one and using it to shoot-up a kindergarten, family member, or anyone else. Isn't it maybe worth losing just a little bit of your freedom for the possibility to save another's life? We all have the same end goal here do we not? So if it's a possibility, why not do it. Deterring violence and the death of another human being is all we (should) want. I would miss that little bit of freedom a lot less to not ever have to see a gun massacre headline in a newspaper or online article anymore.
I don't think you're understanding my point.
Again, if you think you can go toe-to-toe against a drone to overthrow a tyrannical government, please be my guest.
Oh, the American population
absolutely can. Now there'd be quite an amount of casualties, but you have to remember that if the government were ever to turn into a tyrannical forgetboyo, then the troops would be on our side in an instant, which is good, but that doesn't stop the government from hiring a private military. The advantage we have is numbers, and the advantage of the government is technology. But remember, it was this exact same way back in the Revolutionary War, where honestly, not even that many Americans participated in, and we still whooped the brits ass. food for thought
And going through a few extra steps to purchase a firearm, and losing a bit of our freedoms will do
nothing whatsoever to stop some guy from still getting a hold of one and killing someone. Those things are inevitable, it's part of human life, you just got to deal with it and political countermeasures can't do anything to stop
human nature (don't agree with killing though, but just saying you really can't stop this stuff).
