12-18-2011, 07:47 PM
(12-18-2011, 05:53 PM)blueberryhill Wrote: You people who rant and rave about
the Founding Fathers, need to progress to this century. We are no longer
at war with the British.
The rest of your post was either childish or just plain ol stupid, so I picked the one part I feel like commenting about because it is so often used in a froth of ignorance. In fact, before I got educated on the issues surrounding firearms, I used to feel a similar thing. If you think the only principled reason bearing arms is in the Constitution is due to a need to fight something akin to the British, then you have done zero quality research into what the views of the Founding Fathers actually were regarding the right to bear arms, and have done zero research into why such a right would be deemed key by them. And I do mean ZERO since only an ignorant bitch would actually use the "we need to move on, we aren't fighting the British any longer" bullshit.
I don't like guns, really. But what I hate more is a bunch of defenseless and helpless people who embolden the bad guys and who do not take responsibility for their Government, their safety, or their freedom.
Like I said, there are risks and costs to freedom but you do not take away a basic right because there are accidents and abuses. It's as simple as that, sheep bitch.
Here's the most important point: stop being fooled by the guns. You are being distracted from the real problems. The real problems behind the violence is not the availability of guns - weapons, including guns, were more available as you go back in decades - even through mail order. When you put blame on the guns, you not only engage in ignorance, you decrease the chances of the real problems getting fixed. The more people blame guns, the less of a spotlight gets places upon the real problems.
In other words, your type of stupidity helps ensure that no real dent will be made in the general occurrences of violence because you work to allocate time, energy, and resources to things that are not actually the problem.