SamuelRSmith said:
curl-6 said:
SamuelRSmith said:
Yeah, people can still have guns... but it's not treated like a right
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Nor should it be in my view.
The average human being is too stupid and irresponsible to be trusted with something so dangerous.
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I'll just copy and paste what I wrote on my vgc wall:
Simple: because every human being has the fundamental right to defend themselves, from both tyrants and criminals.
In the UK, if somebody tries to mug me, I have literally no defence. We're told to just hand our stuff over to the mugger, and then inform the police. In reality, the police rarely catch such criminals.
The muggers don't follow the law, so they already have weapons, and yet the people who a law abiding citizens are left defenceless.
If not a mugger and me, why not a woman protecting herself from a rape? I wonder how many women would worry about walking down a secluded area at night, if they had a handgun in their bag?
Statistically, what I'm saying actually is confirmed. Over half of criminals in the UK, who were caught after a burglary said that they didn't care if the owner was in. This figure is actually 13% in the USA. Because criminals know that a home owner in the USA is far more able to defend themselves.
In fact, criminals in the USA actually worry more about the home owner being in the house, than they do about the police.
But it's not just common criminals, the right to arms is fundamental for liberty. This is the main reason why the founders granted it. The American Revolution wouldn't have been possible without gun rights, and the colonies under the tyranny of the King would have remained. Before Hitler moved the Jews into concentration camps, or even the Night of Long Knives, he first passed legislation that disarmed many Jewish communities. After the pro-democracy protests in T. Square, China, the Chinese Government's first actions were to effectively remove all guns. Because they knew how dangerous an armed population is for tyrants. They know how much easier it is to displace, torture, imprison, and kill the citizenry when they are defenceless.
These are my reasons for believing in gun rights.
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