Sigh "slow learners" huh? What about just plain uneducated?
Non- Muslims were never able to privately own weapons under the ottoman rule. But some did. Guns were put into the hands of 10s of thousands Armenians to fight in WW1. After a massive losses early on the empire blamed it on Armenians and embarked on a program of simultaneously disarming and eradicating them. Only the Armenians were disarmed, in the interest of eradicating that part of the population.
1929? Russia? You mean the Soviet union?
Another communist government... I'm seeing a trend already. They aimed large scale gun confiscation at subpopulations for purposes of enforcing the social policy of “agricultural collectivization,” which played a role into Stalin’s genocidal activities. Stalin’s genocidal activities. Oop china 1935 communist government. They didn't disarm citizens though. "According to Lethal Laws, a 1912 law made it illegal to possess or import rifles, cannons, or explosives without a permit. The Security Administration Punishment Act of 1957 took the additional step of making it illegal to make, purchase, or possess firearms or ammunition without the government’s permission — though by that time at least a million “class enemies” had already died in the name of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution."Germany we already know who was in charge. Gun ownership was banned outright for all German citizens in 1919. A 1928 revision of the law lifted the ban, while still requiring individuals to obtain permits to own, sell, carry, or manufacture firearms. the Nazis used the extant law when they came to power in 1933 to revoke the permits of communists, Jews, and other “undesirables,” and disarm them. The first gun law actually enacted under Nazi rule, the German Weapons Act of 1938, eased some of the permit requirements (those on rifles and ammunition, though not on handguns), and lowered the legal age for the possession of firearms, but also forbade Jews, specifically, from manufacturing or selling arms. The Regulations Against Jews’ Possession of Weapons, enacted later that year, prohibited Jews from possessing or carrying any kind of weapon at all. So, while the Nazis ultimately favored loosening gun restrictions on the German population as a whole, the disarmament of Jews and other targeted minority populations was an essential feature of Hitler’s genocidal programHonestly do I even need to go on. These statements are mostly false. Saying gun control causes genocide... Disgusting honestly.
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No it can't be a free country if you aren't free to defend yourselves from the government
If a democratic country only has a choice of 2 parties and the same agendas are pushed regardless of which is in power, is that still a free country?
Is it still relevant to promote the idea that an armed populace can fight state tyranny in an age where autonomous drones can kill you in your sleep?
Where cameras and computers can identify you if when you are dressed in a gorilla costume by your gait?
What does it matter if you have a few guns in your house if you never bothered to learn and understand what the 2nd amendment actually says and why?
What is the point in making posts about politics when you are so blind and clueless that you can't even identify that there are no left wing parties in the United States?
No it means they want 100% power over the people.
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Obama also asked the media to compare the number of Americans killed through terrorist attacks in the last decade with the number of Americans who have died in gun violence. Using numbers from the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, CNN reported that 316,545 people died by firearms on US soil from 2004 to 2013 – a thousand times more than 313 killed by terrorism.
That's our decade of gun violence. I don't care how many died in other countries. We don't need to disarm every American. We need tax and insurance laws for those enthusiasts that must have guns. Then when a gun is used in a crime, the legitimate gun owners will demand tougher laws to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally unstable.It depends by how you define free. Guns in America were/are intended for the purposes of protection (hunting too, but that wasn’t the original reason), most notably from the government. Taking away guns would be interpreted as a way of the government attempting to gain more control or influence, which is why we see so much resentment for the process.
I’m not opposed to placing limits- there’s far too many options for mentally ill and deranged people to own a gun, and that’s a case for the people’a safety, not the government’s influence, but at the same time outright forbidding gun ownership is dangerous.well, the government of that country will feel more free to impose further decisions on their people, that's for sure
No because most of countries captioned in your picture were dictatorships. Germany in 1938 was no where from being comparable to the US now, neither was Russia in 1929. China was in 1930s already controlled by a communist socialist party.
Venezuela is also closer to a dictatorship than to a democracy. Elections there are faked and no international government acknowledges them.
So that your view of the US arguing what I don't want can't be true?There is, as you point out, a huge correlation with a reduction of freedom when private firearm ownership is banned. The UK, Canada, Germany, and especially Australia are examples of this. Banning firearms is a pretty totalitarian act, and a regime that does that will usually feel free to enact other measures that restrict basic freedoms.
This Brit was alseep in bed in Georgia and got shot in the head this morning. He's dead.
Well I'll tell you this about a free country it's not just about guns our sons are nice because that's the people's check and balance with the government. If your government can't trust you with Firearms you shouldn't trust your government with firearms. Freedom ain't free
Guns don't give you freedom, they take it away. If I can't do something because my gun toting neighbour disappoves that is not freedom.
Yawn. . .
You guys post the same thing every other week.
If someone says you can't have an assault rifle, you are somehow disarmed, even as you have 45 other weapons.The post hoc, ergo propter hoc (after the fact, therefore because of the fact) fallacy. If B follows A, it's not necessarily because A came first, or because A caused B to happen.
Guns never solve problems, they only cause them.In a society where guns have been implemented for so long, completely removing them can cause damage because it’s the norm and people are used to having them to protect themselves. But in a society that is used to not having them like Canada or Italy (where the crime rates are quite low) it should just stay that way.
Tldr: if something works for a country then keep it that way. Don’t change what’s not broken.In a way they are more free. They are free from being killed by mentally ill people with guns.
America imprisons, enslaves and kills more of it's population than any other country.
It's far from a "Free" country.Well the UK has not made guns illegal.
They have made specific ones illegal.
We are definitely free as most other democraciesSo when exactly did the governments of basically all OECD countries except a few commit genocide or persecute its own population?
yes, guns are dangerous tools. What do ordinary citizens do with guns? a psychopath comes out, takes a gun, shoots whatever he wants. is this a good thing?
Nope Countries where gun laws are stricter there higher % in stabbings.
And how many of the same people think the earth is overpopulated? And the population needs to be drastically reduced? (For climate change, of course) I wonder what the motivation could be to disarm people. 🤔
Course it is you uneducated American mutt.
If you are so utterly pathetic to think guns = freedom you should get sterilized & go back to preschool as you likely contribute absolutely nothing of value to society.We are much more free than the USA, and we don't need guns either.
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