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Originally Posted by Red October1984
I'm not at all trying to take a cheap shot at you or attack you, but this surprises me coming from a European. Its the type of stuff you hear here in the USA. However, there are people that continually push for these stricter laws and seem to be blind to the fact that they are not working. The strictest gun laws in the country are in Chicago...
And again, like you say, the crimes there are committed by the illegal guns...guns don't kill, people do. It's such a common sense concept that seems to be constantly overlooked to the point where it appears to be blatantly ignored. I'm a gun enthusiast, yeah...but I should not be made a victim by the government I support. I should not be made a target for criminals who wish to do me or my family harm.
I just want to call attention to this.  You're absolutely right. |
To be honest, I have taken several years to completely u-turn over the issue, 10 or 15 years ago I was probably sounding exactly like you would expect a German to sound on this issue.
Statistics are one reason, fundamental changes of my views on state, and growing anger about the Zeitgeist, are two others. More pragmatical: its better to have a weapon and not needing it, than to need a weapon but having none. I am only against a too loose sales and permissions policy, and a general gun cult. There should be a checkup of biography, and mandatory training, but a general right to own a weapon as well. Automatic weapons, MGs, MPs, ARs however should have no place in public sales, I think, as should so called cop killer ammunition and other special bad stuff. They are not needed neither for hunting, nor self-defence, nor sports precision shooting. Leave the tools of war to were they belong - the warriors protecting their country/society against foreign aggressors.