NEW EU TREATY EU PRESIDENT!!!

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konnichiwa said:

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kitler53 said:
i like this, it brings us one step closer to a world government and i like that idea. with any luck maybe the EU will absorb the USA and then we'll have a check and balance on our leadership.

 

*Superchunk, it probably wouldn't start out with our Bill of Rights. We're the only country that has freedom speech (except death threats on the president, for obvious security reasons) and expression**. No way would the EU allow us to have guns, either.

 

In the first place why do you want a gun for?

Well, when I used to spend my summers and some winters on a farm, they were extremely handy for hunting, target shooting, getting rid of rabid animals, and it was a good thing to have growing up. I learned a lot about responsibility from my summers at my grandparent's farm. It's something my children will learn, also. It's great for teaching someone to be responsible. I've never, out of many many children I've been around, seen a kid grab a real gun and play Rambo, it's an extremely sobering experience and they take it very, very seriously.

Second, one of the primary reasons for our 2nd Amendment was to protect the people against the tyranny of government, the ultimate check and balance against the system. A bit archaic of a thought nowadays with tanks and helicopters, but the fact remains that it's power in the hands of the people.

Third, I'm a responsible gun owner with extensive training, and an exemplary military record.

Fourth, there's a lot of bad and unfair images that along with owning guns. I've found on the whole gun owners are very mentally stable and extremely responsible people.

Fifth, criminals are their own category and by definition fit outside the rule of law and the general citizen.

Sixth, for some people it's a means of personal protection. I personally don't prescribe to this idea, but a lot of people do.

It's one of those features of our country, it's in our Bill of Rights, it's just as important to a lot of people as the First and Fourth Amendment. I know most countries don't let their citizens have arms, and personally I don't care. I don't live there and they can not have guns all they want, as long as they keep that in their country and keep it out of mine.

I guess I have a serious problem with anyone telling me what I can and cannot do outside the rule of law laid down by the US Constitution and what has been determined via the US courts.

If you want deeper answers, better ones than my person ones, pick up a US civil liberties book and read through the legal history and the opinions of judges deciding the cases. Also, the debates on the constitution, which is a big ole fat 2 volume read that has lengthy arguments between our founders of the US.

The bigger question for me, why do you want me to not have a gun?

Edit: And as the previous poster said, it's none of the government's f'n business what I do with my life or the decisions I make. The government's job is to protect our rights, not them or take them away.