Re: Gun control challenge...
Never ends does it? The US's right to bear arms was written under the pretense of "protection", not protection from wild animals, but protection from government, specifically our own. I am an avid hunter, but will never use the argument that firearms for hunting are ok while others are not, there's no place for this argument, it just clouds the issue. Our founding fathers did not proclaim the right to bear arms because they were all starving and couldn't kill a turkey with a rock, they did it because they were under the control of the British (taxation without representation). The intention was that the people have the ability to protect themselves from a gov't gone sour, in the 1700's it was a musket, today that won't get the job done, so yes we should have the right to bear any arm necessary for our protection - That was the intention. Does every houshold need an F16 in the garage? I doubt it, 100,000,000 rifles, shotguns and pistols will probably be sufficient. I'm not a gun crazed nut, only own hunting style firearms, but I do know some nuts who have no business with a gun. The problem with crime is people and I don't have the answer for that.
Never ends does it? The US's right to bear arms was written under the pretense of "protection", not protection from wild animals, but protection from government, specifically our own. I am an avid hunter, but will never use the argument that firearms for hunting are ok while others are not, there's no place for this argument, it just clouds the issue. Our founding fathers did not proclaim the right to bear arms because they were all starving and couldn't kill a turkey with a rock, they did it because they were under the control of the British (taxation without representation). The intention was that the people have the ability to protect themselves from a gov't gone sour, in the 1700's it was a musket, today that won't get the job done, so yes we should have the right to bear any arm necessary for our protection - That was the intention. Does every houshold need an F16 in the garage? I doubt it, 100,000,000 rifles, shotguns and pistols will probably be sufficient. I'm not a gun crazed nut, only own hunting style firearms, but I do know some nuts who have no business with a gun. The problem with crime is people and I don't have the answer for that.
<br /><br />The point is, you cannot legislate intellegence or morality and I get tired of others telling me that you can. Let's face it, our societies are different. There is nothing wrong with that. <br /><br />I will never again criticize someone else' society , unless they become a threat to our soveriegnty.<br /><br />We must always remember that the finger can be pointed both ways.
