| chris_wing said:
Maybe it's something to do with the American culture and not just the guns. |
well it does, as well as geographical locations, healthcare system (How does Canada's Healthcare system help mental health for example? idk). Again I'm not familar with canada. But the US/Mexico Border has all kinds of issues with violence and drug cartel etc. Where I'm sure the U.S. canada border is not near the issue.
I'm generally neutral. The main issue I have about taking away guns is more to do with the slippery slope of taking away existing rights. Than the guns themselves.
Imo the spirit of the 2nd ammendment was so that the citizens could retake a government that was corrupt or whatever. However, no one is going to take over the government with semi-automatic rifles against a military that has tanks, nukes, machine guns and body armor. And thus, I understand the point of Semi-Auto's being useless. But that's already because from a certain point of view the 2nd Ammendment was already violated.
Some of the NRA proposals about censoring media violates the Spirit of the 2nd ammendment even more in my eyes. (If anything, the common people are going to overthrow the government through information rather than guns).
However, after all this trouble of banning guns what have you really done other than making a large group unhappy and creating a huge fissure between viewpoints. there are still illegal guns, Bombs, and knives. So how many lives would you really save? 50 a year, 100?
How many more lives could be saved by the government addressing more issues about the economy, and raising the general quality of life. Getting more people jobs so they don't have to resort to violence.
