Two questions for gun control people

[cubalaya]

Fortunately, no one is talking about banning guns, only defining what is appropriate to be carried by civilians. You can rest easy tonight.

maybe not today but if we allow this power grab then what is next? i will not rest easy as long as they are the ones that say what is appropriate.

 

[KristyHall]

I'm sorry Q that your thread is getting out of hand. You asked some very insightful questions in a reasonable respectful manner.

I am on the fence, like in many political hot buttons, when it comes to gun control. I can see both sides. Growing up in a Native community I was taught to distrust the government, and I can see the fear of banning any guns as a way to limit civilian unrest should it come to that.

But I can also see the other side. The reasons for banning weapons, or for simply limiting them is that while the military and police are trained and screened in the use of these weapons, civilians rarely are,and it is impossible to monitor millions of people's stability and ability to properly use guns.

The people who are for banning or limiting gun use are the ones who trust that the people in the police and military, our family, friends and neighbors, would not turn their weapons on civilians (their family, friends, and neighbors) under government order. They believe that by removing weapons from easily accessibility to the average person would not end up like Nazi Germany, but more Like Canada, where gun use is very limited but there are no troops marching in to kill the populace and elections are still held like any democracy.

Which ever way it goes, I think I can make peace with it, ban, no ban, limitations, no limitations. I adjust, adapt and survive,and know that should the government turn on the people, illegal or not, there would be ways to find a weapon and fight back. But more than likely, an oppression would be fought on an international stage, with political maneuvering rather than that with weapons and soldiers firing on their own populace.

 

[Matthew3590]

Ah, the dreaded "slippery slope" argument.  Smoking marijuana will lead to heroin addiction and all that.  I find it's always more efficient to deal with reality, not futures that I've made up.

As of now I have seen slippery slope work when it is involving government actions and nothing else. Look at UK and their knife situation.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Quote: Yea, that ban on pointy kitchen knives they were trying to pass. Having high profile cooks making statements that no one needs a knife with a point.

 

[thaiturkey]

He'll tell you that's "government's propaganda"

Is someone suggesting that whoever was flying those planes cold have been stopped by a man holding an AR15?

 

[thaiturkey]

I just have one question...Is Thiaturkey an American on American soil? If not, he does not have a dog in this fight. Yes, he may post his opinion, however, he is not here, so his opinion is exactly that and has no worth...in MY opinion.

Some of you any-person-any-gun-any-place dudes have been heading this way for a while, have you not? I have seen nothing in the BYC rules that prevents persons of any race or place of birth from expressing an opinion. In fact, some of the people here with their heads in the sand might benefit from an outside view.

 

[KristyHall]

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This is a public forum used all over the world. To assume that only Americans should discuss politics on this forum can be considered arrogant.

 

[newfoundland]

Your last sentence just about sums up how many people in the world view some of your countrymen I'm afraid KristyHall.

 

[OldGuy43]

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Not sure what you're laughing at there. If the person holding the rifle was on the plane, yes! Have you ever been to a gun show? You meet some of the politest people there.

 

[cubalaya]

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