i want to air a theory.
think very metaphorically for this paragraph. imagine that your brain with all its features can be explained as a list with 12 available slots ranging from 1-12. let's say that each of these slots represent an aspect of human life that is important, even unavoidable in some cases. like love. a human will not exist that doesn't feel love, unless he or she is a mutation. this is a very basic feat of human life, and it is overlapped by several of the important aspects of being human. the need to feel emotional security is related to love, but on a larger scale, the need to feel security can be put in many different booths, as far as important aspects of human life go. i can foresee a lot of potential outcomes from banning guns or even making them harder to legally purchase. let's imagine that the us put a ban on the public owning guns, or created a stricter gun legislation. let's imagine further that doing this took away the feeling of freedom for a lot of people, and the feeling of security. two slots are now empty on the 12 slot list, and instead of being left empty, your sub-conscious will try to fill them somehow. if you're dying for a cigarette, most people know that they can eat a meal or do something very preoccupying instead. we know that instead of kicking one habit for good, changing it with a better habit is always a lot easier to do. surely you see the connection i'm trying to make. soon as americans can't own guns, can't talk about guns, soon as they re-structure the NRA because all the americans who used to own guns are no longer allowed to, something needs to substantiate these needs. that doesn't mean that everyone who used to have a need to own a gun is suddenly gonna start having the awkwardest, most random needs and desires, but rather, that person's psyche will somehow have to change. a forced change to a person's psyche... that's almost a moral debate.
the principle upon which the states were based is that of freedom. stricter gun laws could, to the worst of patriotic extemist americans seem like an offensive action by the government. that they are somehow robbed of their liberty. i foresee all the moral debates. i bet a lot of americans would feel less safe without knowing they have a gun. when you know that you own a gun, soon as someone say "danger" your immediate reaction might be calmer, the result being that you think more rationally, because you know that if shit really does pop off at least you have your gun or at least you own a gun. owning a gun obviously creates a sense of security. there's so many potential outcomes that i don't even know if i want to say it's a wise choice to ban guns.
arguably, in a country where gun legislations have been of the stricter kind for the past century, the general usage of guns, and gun-related statistics would probably be lower than they are in the u.s. today. america is so big compared to other countries. generally speaking. you produce more, you import/export more, you have more people, you have more guns, more crime, more movie stars, more everything than most countries in the world. no matter what the comparison, i have yet to come over something that can be measured in numbers that justifies the gun violence in the us. there are countries with more inhabitants, an equally large film industry, an equal collection of several different cultures, but none of them see the violence you do in america. i can't help but think it's a fair assumption that something about america, whatever it is, makes america very special. or to speak more accurately, i feel it's a fair assumption that america is a weirdo. so comparing american statistics to uk statistics isn't really entirely accurate.
like am said earlier statistics are pretty much useless. they give you a false illusion of confidence.
(edit: retouched this post like four times, whatever)
) think that owning a deadly weapon is actually a natural, unalienable right. It's not. That's not why the amendment was put into place, and it pisses me off that people think that way :fury:
