Let freedom ring, baby!
From Reuters:
The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world, a report released on Tuesday said.
U.S. citizens own 270 million of the world's 875 million known firearms, according to the Small Arms Survey 2007 by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies.
About 4.5 million of the 8 million new guns manufactured worldwide each year are purchased in the United States, it said.
Now if we just had the morality that we once did to ensure they were used legitimately all the time.
3 comments:
If all of those were hunting guns, it wouldn't be a problem. But I worry about the non-hunting guns that people own.
The idea that there are so many gun out there makes me feel unsafe. I know that most people will be responsible, but what about the ones who won't be?
Remember last month when some guy in SD shot his neighbors because they were making too much noice on the 4th of July? It's stuff like that that scares me.
Maybe that fear is irrational but it just seems like there are too many people out there who are not responsible with their guns.
You're a big 2nd Amendment guy, Bob, so you'll probably criticize what I've just said. But those are my honest feelings about this issue. And I've talked with other people who share my concerns. It's something to think about.
Actually I sympathize with your concerns, Haggs. It's definitely not as safe as it used to be.
But that's yet another of those areas where we'd be a lot better off if we'd all promote more morality, responsibility and accountability. When people will discipline themselves, fewer laws are needed, and when they don't...well, you get what we're getting today: more laws and a loss of freedom.
Illustration: when I was in high school, I could go to my rural public school with a huge hunting knife strapped to my belt and no one thought anything of it, but today I'd be locked up and put under a shrink's supervision. Why the difference? Back then, people taught their children responsibility and the value of human life, so young boys could run around in the woods all day with a gun (like I did, unsupervised), and carry a huge knife to school. But now, we don't want to impose our values on our children, we don't want to make judgments, blah blah blah (in other words, we don't want to parent). And we have young people who don't understand the consequences to themselves and others if they stab, shoot and blow each other up.
As dangerous as guns can be in the hands of the irresponsible today, we need to go back to teaching right and wrong. Our Second Amendment right depends on it--and that isn't just about hunting or even self defense, but about being able to throw off a government that's decided it's people can't be trusted with freedom.
One other point...
Criminals get guns regardless of the laws.
So... do the laws make us any safer or actually less safer?
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