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In reply to the discussion: Can you imagine believing this? [View all]discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,620 posts)46. Ask Europeans who suffer from almost no gun crime...
...if they'd trade thousands of people dead at the end of a gun per year for access to guns for self-defence.
I would but I won't be around after they've had the requisite 250 years to acclimate to the culture here. (I'll be living in Scandinavia by then) If you doubt that the US is more violent than the UK, you should know that the US non-gun murder rate exceeds the OVERALL UK murder rate. Why, you ask? Numerous factors unrelated to people having guns.
Infusing a sense of hope for the future and respect would be a start. This nation got its start with its government oppressing the people. (Thank you very much King George.) There's now push-back when the government restricts what's been accepted as a freedom.
"Complete ban" - not happening; get serious. There are 600,000,000 privately held firearms worldwide. Half of those are here in the US. Allowing 3 seconds just for the action of picking up a firearm, picking up every gun in the US would take over 28 man-years.
"When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred." Maybe it's inconvenient, but it's true. Add to that the distrust of the government that would become rampant.
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If so few are capable of governing themselves how fewer still are capable of governing others?
Nuclear Unicorn
May 2016
#53
I also see a daily report of police excesses. What's a unicorn to think now?
Nuclear Unicorn
May 2016
#65
I used to think I should be allowed to own whatever I wanted so long as I kept it to myself ...
marble falls
May 2016
#21