They're dead set on trying to take our rights away. The rights our nation was founded on.
Taking guns away from legal gun owners won't stop gun crime. Guns aren't just gonna magically poof into non existence but that's how liberals think. Actually they don't think at all.
Its only gonna increase violent crimes. Criminals can still obtain guns.
Guns are a major deterrent to criminals.
Protect yourself, protect your family.Call me a conspiracist all you want but I think liberals are planning these shootings in the US to strip us of our rights. Using emotional manipulation going as far as to sacrifice kids in their never ended battle to dismantle our nation 🇺🇸
Well this is very retarded. First of all, I am sick and tired of you people jammering on about your rights and the foundation of your country, as if either is as glorious as you make it out to be considering things like slavery or womens rights to vote etc.. from that time. The foundation of your country is fucking trash by modern standards and you should stop trying to glorify it.
Originally private citizens with guns were supposed to replace the military as USA was not supposed to participate in offensive wars. Guess that idea went down the toilet almost immediately and the function of guns has changed in major ways ever since as well. Suffice to say that the role of an armed civilian population has already deviated from the intent of the founding fathers not to mention the weapons themselves which has taken many major leaps to become something entirely foreign from the muskets of old.
But that is honestly all a distraction. We do not base our decisions on something some ancient grandpa decided hundreds of years ago, we need to reexamine it under a modern context to see if it makes sense according to our own needs and situation. To put it bluntly, guns is becoming a major problem. The fact that you can't acknowledged this is pathetic on your part.
Putting aside your crazy conspiracy theories that honestly should qualify you for a mental asylum, are guns a major deterrent to criminals? As USA has more than twice the guns per capita of any other country and has much more crimes than other developed nations, that is just blatantly false. Guns do not deter criminals. So that is one claim thoroughly dealt with. What is next?
Criminals can still obtain guns? Yes, but not at the same quantity and quality. Illegal guns in other countries exists but is such a non-issue that its not even brought up. No reason this would not be the case in USA either. Another claim brushed aside with ease since its made with such childish logic. What is next?
Will outlawing guns make them magically disappear? Of course not, first thing that you actually have sort of a point in. But at the same time eating medicine does not make you magically cured either, it is expected that solutions takes time and considering the scope of USA's gun problem the amount of time will also be very long to see any real improvements. But, and this is important, this does not mean its not a worthwhile thing to do. As the saying goes, the best time to plant a tree is 10 years ago, the next best time to plant a tree is today.
There are many things we can do to start solving the gun problem in USA, reducing the number of guns is just one of them but fairly important since no solution can truly be achieved if guns continue to infest society like it has been. The ones who are sacrificing kids is not the liberals who wants to end this problem but you who rather kids gets murdered in schools than you losing your precious rights.
@Agagagagaga You are the one who brought up the shooting in Texas. Actually, which one are you talking about? There has been 6 mass shootings in Texas this month alone and its not even over. I am not the one who is allowing this to happen or even benefiting from it. You are. This is your fault as a country, I am simply here on the sidelines pointing out your failures.
@Sabretooth Yes. It’s terrible the way I volunteered my life to serve in the military and fight for wastes of life such as yourself—because I believe in the Constitution and the United States of America. I’m so selfish I even worked in a morgue while I was deployed to Iraq.
I’m so selfish and awful that I did search and recovery for airplane crashes. I literally picked up pieces of a dead Canadian Air Force pilot and later met his grateful family who thanked me for the work I did. So did his commanding officer. I didn’t have to do any of this. In fact I had the day off that day. I’m such a selfish unfeeling bastard.
I’m such an awful, awful person, the way I made my way through nursing school. It was terrible of me, the way I took care of people who had been in motorcycle accidents and who would never walk again. I’m so selfish I even help elderly patients with dementia go to the toilet. I’m such a bastard.
And the way I took care of someone who just had their leg amputated, the way I wrapped their bloody stump and checked it for infection. Well I must have pure ice water running through my veins.
Now how about you go and fuck yourself? That way you don’t say anything else stupid and you’re depriving the world of some of your offspring. I think you’re a special, one of a kind, asshole. I mean I know they say the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree but I struggle to think of how your children could ever approach your truly epic level of idiocy.
@lofii My opinion is fact. It is true even if I am "only a Swede". Honestly as often as this is your peoples go-to response to me all I can say is that you all lack good comebacks.
@Agagagagaga To think that after all the good things you have done in your life, none of it is enough to overlook the fact that you rather have your precious rights than save countless kids from being hunted and murdered in schools. I would in a heartbeat trade everything good you have ever done for a single child who was lost because of your retardation.
no deaths as of the above article for 6 months in London, harder for gangs to get firearms.
also the thing with the US, only stupid people want to get rid of firearms, too many and too much legal stuff in way,
however needs to be a non political thing and not used as a political football.
then also some thoughts on exactly why does everyone believe they need a weapon.
Militia, okay, severely limit sale of handguns, look at Ukraine, it’s rifles not handguns you predominantly use in war. Then standardise the type and calibre, all 5.56mm, as you need logistics. You are allowed only one weapon and it must be serviced and you must be trained and tested, fail tests and you lose access to weapon.
Home defence, okay, then a huge number of firearms and ammunition are just not suitable as they go through walls, the range of the weapon is too far, no good at aiming close up etc etc.
Then there is the actual use of a weapon, in a city why does someone need an AR15 type etc, yes a guy with a farm in Texas needing to kill hog infestations etc, however someone in an apartment block in a city….
put in some common sense, some regulatory framework, that does not ban weapons but controls them.
Most so called gun crime in the UK isn't shooting. It could be something as simple as not storing your gun securely. Most criminals don't carry guns for the simple reason if they're caught the sentence is severely increased. A few months for burglary can turn into many years regardless of whether the gun was actually used or not. It's also worth remembering that when figures are low any change looks big in percentages.
The reason the libs want to take away your guns is because you've demonstrated that you can't be trusted with them.
@WhiteBoyChill bruh, we've gone from the original amendment ("a well regulated militia...") to any cheesedick teenager being able to easily buy an AR. But as soon as anyone suggests some common sense middle ground, the mouth-breathing right-wingers jump to your extreme of "they done gonna take away ourrr gunzzz"
to find out why they want our guns gone, look what they did during the pandemic in countries like Australia. "Comply with their authoritarian government or get beat to shit and tossed in concentration, oops I mean wellness camps". You know they built several of those camps across the USA too, right? But they failed at disarming the people, and thus failed at being able to "lock up the filthy unvaxxed". But there were orgasmic moans from the people on the Left who wanted that to happen. That was their goal. An armed populace is much harder to control. That's rule #1 in the dictator's handbook. Every dictator in history has first sought to disarm the people. They want total control and not a people who can defend their freedom from a corrupt government.
Look what was said during the World Economic Forum. They want "pills" that send doctors a signal to let them know that a person is being compliant and taking their pills/medicine/"vaccine". That's not a conspiracy theory--it's from their own mouths.
I'm a hard leftist and this is how i visualize stoping or at least understanding these "chain of events." Of catastrophic gun injury, death, and how to prevent.
A part of understanding catastrophic events that it is very rarely just one sudden aspect that causes such events. it is a chain of events link together. If you cut off one link you avoided a catastrophic disaster. The FFA for an example creates standards making airplane travel a gold star global standard creating the safest form of travel.
I would suggest something similar with guns. Were half way there with the NRA but that organization is more focused on profits. If the NRA was more safety focused it would be ask to by the government to be a agency like the FFA but on the NRA gun enthusiast terms.
So maybe the NRA becomes a investigation agency on gun violence and the leftist are easily appeased if there's an investigation on the level of the FFA. at the same time NRA creates a safety oriented environment on how to use guns avoiding catastrophic disaster with everything they learn from these investigations.
Anti gun people will have zero ground to stand on. Pro gun people will investigate and create better standards of gun safety and the world is a safer place. That's a win in my book.
We must be absolutely terrible to want common sense gun laws. LOL, it's always the first talking point that I expect to hear, "Liberals want to take away our G-d, guns, and freedom!" This said, talking points allow people to turn their minds off and not need to be critical thinkers. Thus, why not answer your own question. Why might people feel that common sense gun laws are important? What might be occurring that they wish to affect (whether or not you agree with them)? What reasonable, solutions-based measures might address peoples' concerns without being oppressive? Is common sense "anti-freedom?" Get to know the other side, bridge gaps, and make our society better.
I'm not trying to argue, but I'd like to address your statement. Did the man who allegedly shot several children not obtain the weapon legally? This said, would some type of a background check have turned something up? I don't know. I can't say that I know enough about the situation to know whether or not he had documented mental health conditions, ties to extremist groups, or a criminal background. It's a complex issue, indeed. Surely, there must be some way that we can find common ground and lead to constructive policies that lower gun violence while protecting second amendment rights. I'm not sold on an either-or black and white mindset when it comes to making our society safer while protecting freedoms. Is this not fair?
@Just4ThisNow2 there's no "common sense" or "middle ground" with the right-wingers who are still largely controlled/influenced by gun $$. We've gone from the original amendment ("a well regulated militia...") to any 18 year old dingleberry being able to buy a weapon capable of automatically firing multiple rounds in rapid succession with the clear intent of mass casualties.
Nevermind murrrica supposedly being the besest most develped country on the planet, obviously no other developed country deals with the ongoing problem of regular citizens being gunned down in the numbers & frequency that America does. The gun nuts have no coherent opinion as to why that is, and certainly no solutions. So, like the dingleberry who started this topic what else are they gonna do besides jump to conspiracy theories?
Let’s hope that I’m not “that ignorant” and that people from differing political theories be able to find common ground to make constructive changes. Yes, the gun lobby has great control. So go after the gun lobby. Yes, go after the cause and not, merely, the symptom.
Also, leave the name-calling out of it. You just lose the attention from a bunch of folks who were willing to consider what you state upon the merits of the argument.
@Just4ThisNow2 And I love the idea of constructive debate between "differing political theories" but innocent Americans, the latest example once again involving the most vulnerable school children, continuing to be gunned down and right-wingers will say "now is not the time" to debate, etc etc... you can approach the topic with whatever olive branch and peace pipe you want, while others of us realize it's well past that point and hope that putting pressure of any & all kinds, including shameful ignorant fools, might have at least slightly greater effect.
Hell, this jackwagon is blowing past the "now isn't the time for debate" line to completely flip it upsisde down and suggest it's a lib conspiracy that is fueling these attacks.
So yeah, keep debating with these degenerates and hope that'll make a difference. Thoughts & prayers for both of you.
@nachosareaexy I disagree. Arguing is not the same as debate. You propose “debating…degenerates” and don’t seem to appreciate the flaws in mere mud-flinging arguments. People can tell what they want all day, but this doesn’t lead to solutions. Steer clear of labels. Most people have similar wants and needs. Our differences are slim in comparison. I’m proposing practicality and mutual benefits, not appeasement.
They're dead set on trying to take guns from numbnuts like you, your "rights" are irrelevant when you are the problem. Your "nation" was founded on slavery and theft - and still relies on it.
Your tiny, insular mind cannot grasp the concept of better gun control, meaning better gun safety and regulation. Guns are the weapon of choice by criminals and to date have deterred exactly zero crimes.
Hence why America has the worst gun crime ratios in the world.
This is because they don't like opposition. And armed opposition which the constitution clearly and highly recommends for just such a reason they especially don't like.
--------- Here is the bill of rights just in case some have never actually read it.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government …
Dude, I own a number of "assault weapons" and I'm not worried about people taking my guns away. A lot of super right wingers seem obsessed with conspiracies and try to connect innocent deaths to a political mantra. I cannot imagine parents having to identify their 4th grade children from multiple body parts and blown out brains or intestines. And you're here worrying about getting your guns taken away.
I didn't say guns kill people. I agree they dont. But making something political and focusing on your fear of losing your guns when parents have lost their children... thats the paradox I dont understand
Literally hundreds & hundreds of mouth-breathing right-winger opinions like this about "libs" taking people's guns away, and yet none of them can offer a coherent thought about why mass shootings happen over & over & over again in America at rates unlike any other developed country in the world.
Liberals want to disarm us because they realize that the entire Constitution is defended by citizens having access to firearms against a rogue government as we have today. They can't take our rights away when we can shoot them if they get out of line.
Because there are other nations that have stricter gun laws like most Europe and still have less mass shootings than the US. Nevertheless have a higher or equal living standard than the US, I'm not talking about Belarus, rather about Scandinavia, Germany or Switzerland. It's the idea that if gun laws are stricter in general "new"/potential criminals have it harder to get guns.
Suggestion- All you ''normal'' guys who like to give it a shot - get your shit together and do something about the idiots among you ''gun owners''. Onwards, no one will complain.
''Liberals'' in the U. S. - agreed - to me, as an ''outside-U. S.- liberal'', they are a laughing stunt, too.
As for comparing with the UK: you can't put the cowboy-world on the same scale with an established culture.
Your conspiracy is no conspiracy it's the truth. Please people stop watching the news there the cause of it all. The news is used to fear munger and give ideas to people with I'll intent.
It's not about public safety, and it never was. Guns have been all over the place in the US for hundreds of years, and their capabilities have been basically unchanged since the 1940s, but mass shootings/rampages are a relatively recent trend.
This is what I keep saying. Americans have had wide spread access to firearms for centuries. We have had laws regulating their use for several decades. Yet the rise of mass shootings really started in the to become a worrying trend in the 90s. Sure, America had the occasional mass shooting before then, but they were much more rare. So really we should be asking ourselves, what changed socioculturally in America in the past few decades that resulted in increased frequency of shootings?
It clearly isn’t because we had guns, because we’ve always had guns.
And it can’t be because there aren’t enough gun laws, we’ve had them for decades and adding more hasn’t reduced the frequency of shootings.
So the causes have to be sociocultural. It’s a no-brainer. 🤷♂️
Because they CAN'T think! They''re too stupid! You're NOT a conspiracy nut, that IS EXACTLY what's been going on! Instead of banning guns, they SHOULD be banning liberals with guns!!
Here's something else to add to your theories. Have you ever heard of Montauk boys? These were children (mostly boys but they eventually started using girls) that the government would kidnap right off the streets and take to an underground facility in Montauk, N. J. where they would be tortured and brainwashed and re-programed for future use. The guy that killed John Lennon was one.
I grew up around people who had elevators in their mansions, Porsches they "earned" from their parents and top percentage scoring in S. A. T tests (my school was 5,000th, meanwhile in the area I live in now it is not even in the top 100,000).
So to answer your question, more than I can remember.
@Juxtapose ok, let’s try this again. How many kids that are “bullied because they are poor” and are visitors of an applebees are able to afford $10k in guns and ammo?
@Juxtapose Bro, you're not reading what I'm typing. The shooter in texas was bullied for being 'poor', he worked a minimum wage job and lived with his grandmother. I'm asking how he realistically got thousands of dollars for weapons, ammo, and body armor.
I don't care you know kids with rich parents. I don't care that you don't think that people don't bully poor people anymore.
I don't even care anymore because I know they never will, and if they do try there will suddenly be a lot less of them, which would not be a bad thing at all
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What is it that scares you so much that guns give you comfort?
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