And how long would that take? In the meantime it seems that often the first time people realise someone is really dangerous is when a massacre has already happened. The obvious fact is that if guns weren't so easily available less people would have them, less people would use them, less people would die ...... it aint rocket science, such common sense.
By all means improve mental (and all other) healthcare, from the point of view of basic human rights as well as to prevent violence, but ban guns as well.
"Never trust a government that doesn't trust it's own citizens with guns"
-Benjamin Franklin
Without guns, who's to stop a government from doing whatever they want? It's taking power from the people and adding it to the government
As far as I can see, governments do pretty much what they want anyway and if we don't like it we can vote them out at the next election and vote in another lot who'll also do things we don't like: it's called DEMOCRACY. I think it was Winston Churchill who said that it's an unfair system but still the best one we have... or something like that. I don't really care what Benjamin Franklin said, wasn't he a slaveowner? And correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't he talking about defending against the british colonisers, not a duly elected government?
Even though philosophically I'm an Anarchist, I'd rather live in a society which votes out its opponents rather than shoots them out, or do you think civil wars are a good idea?
Given what tiny proportion of Americans actually vote, I reckon you get the government you deserve anyway and I don't see their government shooting people (well at least not within its own borders)- isn't it the cops who do that?
Do you believe it's OK for every lunatic to own a gun without any restrictions at all? If you think there should be some restrictions, exactly what, and who would enforce them other than this government which needs armed citizens to defend themselves against?
I absolutely refuse to believe Sandy Hook was real, IIN?
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And how long would that take? In the meantime it seems that often the first time people realise someone is really dangerous is when a massacre has already happened. The obvious fact is that if guns weren't so easily available less people would have them, less people would use them, less people would die ...... it aint rocket science, such common sense.
By all means improve mental (and all other) healthcare, from the point of view of basic human rights as well as to prevent violence, but ban guns as well.
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As far as I can see, governments do pretty much what they want anyway and if we don't like it we can vote them out at the next election and vote in another lot who'll also do things we don't like: it's called DEMOCRACY. I think it was Winston Churchill who said that it's an unfair system but still the best one we have... or something like that. I don't really care what Benjamin Franklin said, wasn't he a slaveowner? And correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't he talking about defending against the british colonisers, not a duly elected government?
Even though philosophically I'm an Anarchist, I'd rather live in a society which votes out its opponents rather than shoots them out, or do you think civil wars are a good idea?
Given what tiny proportion of Americans actually vote, I reckon you get the government you deserve anyway and I don't see their government shooting people (well at least not within its own borders)- isn't it the cops who do that?
Do you believe it's OK for every lunatic to own a gun without any restrictions at all? If you think there should be some restrictions, exactly what, and who would enforce them other than this government which needs armed citizens to defend themselves against?