Anything that takes away our right to do anything is bad.
Do I find it stupid that we have legalized drinking, but pot is illegal? Yes, I smoke weed, but do not drink, and drunk driving kills.
Do I want drinking made illegal? Hell no. If I want to get drunk and kill myself, it's my own right. If I get drunk and kill someone else, I better be ready to get my ass raped in Parchman state prison for the rest of my white-boy life.
Taking away our rights, and giving the government more control to nurture our citizens, is an attempt by the government to tell us how to live and act. That is never a good thing. For a bunch of liberals who have bitched about the government for the past 8 years, non-stop, you sure are quick to want to give the government more power.
You can't be a secular-progressive and a hippie, make up your minds. Guns kill people, yes, we have laws to punish and reform those who use those guns as tools of violence.
Guns protect people. Rarely, yes it happens, guns kill home intruders.
Should we take away cars because half the population is too crazy to drive one responsibily? Should we take away cars because they kill people, due to idiots using them when they are drunk?
Hell fucking no. We make people take license tests for them, and then if they do kill people, we make them responsible for their own actions and make sure they never do it again.
Nothing is perfect, we're not going to prevent crime, or death, or stupidity, and no set of numbers is worth giving up our liberty and freedom, something I would give my life to defend.
Debating it is a good release, also, this is an interesting topic.
Taking aways guns, where does it stop? Alcohol? Cigarettes? Private transportation?
Think of the millions of small business and gunshop owners your putting out of business by outlawing guns. Think of the illegal trade you'll be creating. Think of the lack of security that women feel walking down a dark alley, or the fear of the old man who lives along with an empty cubbord where his handgun used to be.
People will use guns, nothing will stop that.
The street gangs who shoot innocent bystanders in drivebys? Do you think they're shooting registered weapons? Do you think the gun ban will actually stop that violence? Maybe you think them having guns will give the police an excuse to lock them up? Don't you know they already lock them up if they have a gun on them? You think America won't have an underground gun trade? You think Americans will accept a law like this? Americans in Mississippi? Our country, America, has never been the type to follow along with secular-progressive thinking because of some ruling. We will buy guns BECAUSE of the ruling.
Do we lay down for our government?
I dunno, ask the protesters outside the White House. Ask the soldgers in Iraq. Ask the gang members in Harlem, ask the clan in Mississippi(My home state, btw), ask the self govermentalist in texas, ask the sec-progs in california who have marijuana in vending machines, ask the fishermen of washington, ask the common man of Iowa. Go tell them the supreme court ruling, tell them its time to lay down and obey.
Don't you see that's what makes this country so great. We're so diverse, a melting pot, and we stand together in a simple fact. Nobody is going to circumvent our freedom, and persuit of happiness. We were born with certain unaliable rights, and nobody, not even our own government who acknowledged that bestowment of rights upon us, will tell us otherwise.
