owning a gun or firearm is a choice and law abiding citizens should be able to make that choice. AM you can say that it was a bad thing that the founders of our country created the 2nd amendment and that is your opinion and your right, which i respect. but i would disagree.
It's funny how many guns of "law abiding citizens" end up being used in crimes.
If anything, we need tougher restrictions on who owns guns, tougher restrictions what kind of guns they can own, and much more thorough background checks. However, that's only a start, not a solution.
if a person goes into a gas station to rob place and has a gun, and the person behind the counter is not armed, that person puts a fear into the worker of that gas statoin. a fear that they may die and will be begging for their life. but if that worker is armed they will not have that fear and will know that they can take action against the criminal and more times than not when that criminal sees the person they are trying to rob has a firearm or some kind of gun they turn the other way and run out the door. these types of stories are all around. you see it on t.v. with stupid criminal shows. these types of stories happen all the time
when i lived in orlando there was a story about a man, who had concealed weapons license and carried a firearm, who was coming out of a hotel and two teenagers came up from behind him and ordered him to give up his wallet and jewlrey or they would shoot him. one had a real gun one had a pellet gun. the man took out his gun and the two kids ran. these types of stories are all around.
Puff, for every story you give me about a gun saving a life, I can give you dozens more about a gun ending a life.
You want a story? First case I saw when I began my internship was a murder trial. The defendant was occasoinally being harrassed by this other dude he didn't like him because he intervened in a fight between him and his girlfriend. One night, the other guy took out a knife and threatened to kill him, but then walked away. The defendant was later driving down a street and saw this other guy walking with a group of people. The other guy flagged him down, and the defendant, thinking that this guy wouldn't do anything in front of people and just wanted to reconcile, stopped and got out. Sure, he was skeptical, but he took his gun out of his glove capartment and felt safe. The other guy came at him with a knife, and in the struggle, the defendant shot him and killed him (the projection of the bullet made it obvious that this was the case).
So what happened to the defendant? He's doing 6-10 years for voluntary manslaughter. He put himself in a situation he could have reasonably avoided and killed a man. A lot of good that feeling of safety did him.
the 2nd amendment was more ment to give power to the people so they wouldn't be scared of their govt. an armed citizen was expected to protect against not only foreign enemies, but also potential tyrannical federal govt. the right to bear arms was intended to ensure that our govt remained in the hands of the people. who do you want to have power in our country? the people, or politicians that think they know whats best for the people when they only want to push their own agendas of what they think is best for the people even if it is not?
This is the only reasonable argument that has been made yet. The likelihood of that happening with the American government is unlikely though, and the likelihood of the people, armed with handguns and rifles, being able to withstand the American military if it did is even more unlikely.
what if one day most of our troops are overseas fighting a war and some country like china decides "Well we already own most of america, they give us their money, and we own the mortgages to many of their homes already. What the hell, lets just take the whole country" and they decide to invade the country. the police can't handle the by themselves and most of the military too far away to do anything, so who would that leave to fight for the country? if the citizens didnt have weapons to fight, then i guess they would be to scared of dying and would just give in. if the citizens did weapons to fight for the country they protect their families and their country.
That is completely unfeasible. Not that China might try it, but that we wouldn't have the capabilities to defend ourselves if it did. Between the police, the Coast Guard, the reserves, and the military we have at home, it'd be more than enough to withstand any country until we could rally the troops, so to speak.
) 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:
