Well, in many ways it does. Owning a military grade weapon is essentially pointless, even if it were modified for competition, the potential to cause harm is far greater than that of a handgun. As many of us have said before, we're not advocating the banning of guns, we're advocating stricter gun control policy. Background checks, reducing the type of weapons available to civilians, that sort of thing.
Why ban a military grade assault rifle? Such few gun crimes are committed with rifles. Such a ban would result in so many good people losing their guns, yet prevent so very few deaths it's not even funny.
It's like suggesting we make it illegal to ban swords. Sure, they aren't being used to kill people, but they have that potential!
This argument is stupid. An untrained civilian population has very little chance against the American military's technological advantage, and training. It's stupidity is further increased by the implication that America will magically transform into a totalitarian state in which people will unite whole heartedly and resist.
The LAST thing the American government wants to resort to is using military force against citizens on American soil. Even if it's impossible for civilians to defeat the military, such a fight would be a complete disaster for the government. If the American government ever used its military on its own people, I can't tell you what would happen, but I can tell you that the government will have a much harder time gaining support from both citizens and foreign nations.
The U.S. government would likely bend to the people's will before they use extended military force to wipe everyone out. I could be wrong, but it's not as simple as who has the bigger guns. It is politics after all.
So the argument that we should own guns to defend us from the government isn't entirely crazy, because guns at least keep the government on their toes.
This man is truly insane. As this video shows Alex Jones, not only failed to debate anything relating to the subject at hand, but flat out refused to, despite that being the purpose of the entire debate.
Alex said a lot of crazy things, but he wasn't entirely wrong. He definitely bested Piers Morgan in debate.
Piers Morgan could have picked just about ANYONE to have on his show, he picked Piers Morgan and
still lost the debate. I remember hearing someone say something along the lines of, "Piers Morgan went to the beach, found a scrawny kid to pick on, tried to kick sand in the kids face, missed, then tripped on his own butt."
Now, I realize I'm using an extremist as my primary evidence, but I simply cannot account for American citizen's paranoia. It's almost as if the cold war never ended.
It's impossible not to sound paranoid when you're on the verge of losing one of your freedoms.
It seems like Americans are obsessed with guns. How do Americans get this reputation? People suggests American's give up their right to bear arms, then American do everything they can to defend those rights. People wonder, "wow, how can anyone fight so hard to protect their rights? They must be obsessed." If you don't threaten to take away a man's guns, he's likely not going to obsess over them.
But what about people who obsess over guns all the time, not just in times of debate? The people who want to own as many high powered rifles they can? The people who want to blow up cars with a single well placed bullet? What about these crazy mo fo's? Well, how often do we see these people going around killing others? We almost never do.
When we look at gun crime, we have to look at how much of it is gang related. We must understand why gangs exist and how we can prevent gangs from forming in the first place. Gangs are the problem here.
whats your name so i can deport you?
RON PAUL!!!! THE CONSTITUTION!!! GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!!!!
Please stop spamming that message. Also, suggesting we deport people who question the 2nd amendment is just as bad as suggesting we change the 2nd amendment itself. I've been debating people about this for weeks
here. In fact, I even made a thread about it a while back.
yeah but listen to me. yall over there are in a really bad government system.
We over here have the right to carry guns for a reason to fight against a tyrannical government like yall have.
That's not the libertarian mentality. Libertarians believe everyone should be able to say almost anything they want. We shouldn't censor people because we feel they're wrong, or because we feel they shouldn't have a say. Libertarianism is about allowing anyone with a voice to state what they honestly believe, with no masters necessary to give these people permission to open their mouths. Piers Morgan might be wrong, but I'll defend his right to speak his nonsense, even if I disagree with him.
If you're going to spread the libertarian message, you can't shove it in people's faces.
