Support your 2nd amendment rights!

[CUDA]

I'm not looking to start a heated debate on here, but if you are looking for an easy way to show our government that you support our 2nd amendment rights as law abiding citizens, sign my petition below. Thanks

http://signon.org/sign/american-citizens-against?source=c.url&r_by=6859714

 

[newfoundland]

I can't speak for Australia but gun ownership has never been common in the UK. Sporting guns and shot guns in rural communities are common but held under police warrant and have to be kept in strict conditions. Guns must be kept in a locked steel cabinet and ammunition kept separately. Hand guns are banned but of course some criminals do hold them illegally. Gun crime is rare in UK and accidents almost non existent. For this reason all police, except for airport security/border police and specialist firearms units, are unarmed. We have had in the past our share of massacres by lunatics with assault rifles and they are totally illegal here. Maybe we have always believed that the well being of the community as a whole must always outweigh the rights of the individual.

 

[cupman]

The news seldom reports on the responsible people. It's always the folks like the guy in Washington state who killed his daughter while practicing his quick draw. Same can be said about a lot of things. The media always focuses on the bad because there is no entertainment in people/groups behaving responsibly.

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

Quote: That's OK if YOU "see no need"
I "see no need" for some folks to have access to computers.


Quote: That's odd since there were none until the 1990's
You'd think someone would have figured out they were "necessary" before then

Reality is they are poiintless, since they do nothing to stop crimes from being committed

 

[Q9]

Less then half the households own a gun now.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/12/19/a-gun-ownership-renaissance/

The number's been growing. Heck, I probably know a dozen people who are buying their first gun, and almost everyone else (with a few exceptions) I know already have at least one.

 

[LILJHENMAN]

This is all i can say 2 them

 

[Jungleexplorer]

I can't speak for Australia but gun ownership has never been common in the UK. Sporting guns and shot guns in rural communities are common but held under police warrant and have to be kept in strict conditions. Guns must be kept in a locked steel cabinet and ammunition kept separately. Hand guns are banned but of course some criminals do hold them illegally. Gun crime is rare in UK and accidents almost non existent. For this reason all police, except for airport security/border police and specialist firearms units, are unarmed. We have had in the past our share of massacres by lunatics with assault rifles and they are totally illegal here. Maybe we have always believed that the well being of the community as a whole must always outweigh the rights of the individual.

It is easy to control guns when you live in a country about the size of a large county in Texas. LOL! Stop trying to compare the tiny country of England to a country the size of the US. The greatest danger to your life and freedom is a government with too much power, not your neighbors gun. The founders of this country gave us the right to have guns to provide a balance to the government and keep it in check. They knew exactly what it was like to to be under an oppressive tyrannical government that had too much power. Come to think of it it, that government was ENGLAND! Our forefathers fought and died to rid themselves of England's stupidity and tyrannical control over it's citizens, and now some people have the gall to try to use them as an example for the US to follow. Unbelievable! Anyone else want to act smart and try to use England as an example for the US to follow?

 

[Chic CAN]

I know of children killed by golf clubs by accident.

Oh yea how about vehicles and cigaretts, their death count is way higher.

My suggestion stop trying to conquer death and stop giving crooks get out of jail free cards. Its a part of life and the freaks need to be dealt with not the object itself.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

I think a lot of people on both sides have looked at Australia. Not much use in it though. The country has no borders, never had a gun culture or gun right, still does not have a ban, an it has such a low crime rate that one or two crimes can mess with the numbers across the whole country. How you word your statement can also make the numbers say things they dont really too. Frankly, what little was changed in the countries gun laws did little good or bad to the numbers over the long run. It may have changed how crimes are committed though. Or other things they have done over those years may have.

I wont say what I think of the conclusions in your link mom'sfolly cause fact checking that stuff is a pain. I will tell you that I would find another article to link to to make the point. One that does not reference snoops.com an one that does not have this statement in it.
Quote: I busted out laughing when I read that an spit coke all over my PC.

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

Quote: You DO realize you're using statistics you found ON THE INTERNET to refute "info floating around ON THE INTERNET"?