Bill Pidto wrote:I can present statistics that support my viewpoint as well.
I'm more than fine with regulation on guns. Background checks, proper training. All of that. Absolutely. I just don't believe we should let the government write a new law that forbids us to have them at all. Without guns, there is no American revolution and there is no America. I know it's 2017, but people are still people, and evil is still evil. Tyranny still exists on this planet.
The government will still have guns if they ban them, won't they?
I think if you have any doubts that the government can and will do horrific things in secret, and if you doubt the government would kill innocent people to further an agenda, then I think you haven't been paying attention to world history. Regardless of these recent shootings.
If there is a man walking this earth that is willing to kill 25 people at a church on a Sunday morning, or if there was ever a man like Stephen Paddock who would happily murder almost 60 people at a concert... then how can we be sure that these types of evil people cannot exist in the form of a billionaire with lots of power and influence?
What about all the dictators of the past? What about the dictators who still rule? With all the problems with American politics, what makes American people so sure we can't and won't be ruled under a strict dictatorship some day?
Imagine a person so evil, but with so much power. And imagine he has friends just like him. What is possible then? What type of evil plan can be concoted by such people? Why do we doubt that possibility?
For the record, I've never held or shot a gun in my life.
I'm a gun guy, but I don't own them for that purpose. If citizens ever wanted to fight against the government, they wouldn't last a second. All the info they have on you and technology at their disposal, not to mention drones or other sophisticated weaponry, they'd take you out in a heartbeat.
However, for when shyt hits the fan, like a major natural disaster (look at the looting, and people being raped and murdered after Katrina), or a crazy plague outbreak, possible foreign invaders (knocking out our power grids via cyber warfare), a home burglary, or one of the many other crazy ass things that happen everyday in this world, I'm ready. My AR and AK (semi auto/ no different than a hunting rifle with the exception of an extended clip) give me a good chance against a group of people if it came to that.
With that said, I'm in favor of common sense gun reform (closing the gun show loophole, mandatory registration, mandatory educational & state law courses, thorough background check and psychological evaluation, outlawing modifications that manipulate firearms to fire fully automatic or anything more than semi.. such as bump stocks, etc).
But there will always be a black market to service these crazy bastards regardless of any laws we make, and the rest of us have a right to try and protect ourselves from these sick sobs.
