If the U.S. believes it is a safer country when everyone has the option to bear arms, why doesn't it make a safer world and allow every country to have nuclear weapons?
I mean, if you outlaw nuclear weapons, only outlaws will have nuclear weapons, eh? ;)
True. Guns are really ingrained in their culture though. I think that a lot of Americans live in fear. I'm in journalism school, so I watch news reports from various countries. It always baffles me how much fearmongering there is in the average US news broadcast. You'd think that nothing else happens in that country but murder and shootouts.
I get why they all feel like they need protection, but I believe that no one should have the right to own a gun. There's no person competent or stable enough to be allowed to decide over life and death.
Ugh, I can rant on and on about this subject. But I'm glad you feel this way about guns. :)
I was teasing in my comment (although also making a salient point). I have a real duality about guns because my scout leader personality would like to ban them but yet I love the idea of guns as machines. Not machines to kill people, just machines to expel rounds very quickly. There's something kind of beautiful about the machinery itself and the extended sense of power it must give you. More than ever, I wish wigsplitz was here to offer her opinion so we could have a bit of a debate about it.
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If the U.S. believes it is a safer country when everyone has the option to bear arms, why doesn't it make a safer world and allow every country to have nuclear weapons?
I mean, if you outlaw nuclear weapons, only outlaws will have nuclear weapons, eh? ;)
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True. Guns are really ingrained in their culture though. I think that a lot of Americans live in fear. I'm in journalism school, so I watch news reports from various countries. It always baffles me how much fearmongering there is in the average US news broadcast. You'd think that nothing else happens in that country but murder and shootouts.
I get why they all feel like they need protection, but I believe that no one should have the right to own a gun. There's no person competent or stable enough to be allowed to decide over life and death.
Ugh, I can rant on and on about this subject. But I'm glad you feel this way about guns. :)
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I was teasing in my comment (although also making a salient point). I have a real duality about guns because my scout leader personality would like to ban them but yet I love the idea of guns as machines. Not machines to kill people, just machines to expel rounds very quickly. There's something kind of beautiful about the machinery itself and the extended sense of power it must give you. More than ever, I wish wigsplitz was here to offer her opinion so we could have a bit of a debate about it.
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I have no idea who wigsplitz is. Maybe you can send her a pm?
I love guns too, from a technical point of view. But I can't stand what they're used for.