Sunday, December 23, 2007
Guns
Guns, alright I love guns. I love our second amendment right. "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Firstly lets address the issue of the Amendment being outdated. No, its not the second amendment is there, and put in the Constitution for the reason that we keep and bear arms fearing times like today were people would want them outlawed. The second amendment is also there so we the people can protect ourselves when the government turns against us. Secondly Gun-control does not decrease violent crime. Some people will argue that in Britain it lowers the gun homicide rate, which now is around 1.4 per hundred thousand compared to the United States 9 per hundred thousand. Well the The United states had 7 per hundred thousand in 1900 and britain had 1 per hundred thousand proving that looser gun laws decrease crime. Further Hitler removed all guns from the Jews in Germany before the holocaust causing no resistance from them. Yet when he attacked Warsaw Poland the Jews were armed with several grenades and rifles and hand guns managed to hold off 100,000 well trained Germans for 3 days. This is just my first argument of many to come on gun control.
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Good points... its amazing how people can twist numbers to prove anything they want, but an inanimate object has no moral or ethical standing... its what people do with it.
If people don't like that being in the constitution, they have one natural recourse provided by the same document- change it.
As for me and guns though... back when I was in my first post in rural MN, I borrowed a small shot gun to try to get a rascally rabbit which was eating my garden. I took 8 shots from point blank range, and didn't cause the varmint to so much as twitch his ear, much less cease his decimation of my garden.
So in my case, my idea of gun control is... I won't touch one of the things!
Waiting periods, limits on military grade weapons, etc., don't bother me, and I'm excited by the use of technology (biometrics etc) to make accidental or unauthorized discharge less likely... its similar to the way that food is legal, but food which is spoiled is not.
The single gun law I'd like to see most strengthened is regarding the presence of guns in homes with children... adults should be required to take responsible measures... its asinine that we even need to tell people to keep their guns where a toddler can't get to them, much less legislate it, but then... its asinine that people won't put down their phones and drive, or use their turn signals appropriately either. We might be the "greatest" nation in all history, but we sure aint the brightest!
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