Posted on 02/20/2016 11:51:07 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
No when one wants to push registration one mentions it even if it is not true.
I remember once telling a bunch of Brits and French that my favorite thing about the USA was that we can all own guns. I knew it would upset them and it was worth it.
As immigrants from middle eastern nations increase in numbers, decline to integrate into societies, and some become radicalized, Europeans rightfully become fearful.
A firearm, responsibly owned, can offer security and comfort in the face of violent crime and potential terror attacks.
Are you trying to be sarcastic???
You missed....
[[And how many of those 14,000 homicides are gang-bangers killing each other or perps killed while committing crimes?]]
The real question is - How many of those 14,000 homicides were committed by registered Democrats ?
I could describe America’s current predilection with guns as having a similar desire for an iconoclastic, outsider president who will tear down much of the unconstitutional federal government.
1) The leaders of both parties are corrupt and in complicity. The Democrats are absolutely controlled by internationalist socialists, who openly despise our nation, its history, its constitution and its principles, and us as a people, and whose very organization is roughly akin to an organized crime syndicate. The Republican leadership is effectively controlled by internationalist multinational corporationists, who crave a plutocracy led by multi-billionaires. They, as well, have little or no loyalty to our nation or its people.
And the citizenry are sick to death of both of these groups of failures, this malignant growth of tyranny by whatever name, that undermine the strength of our nation and saps its substance, while selling our posterity into slavery.
2) The last several POTUS have been disastrous. GHW Bush went whole hog for a corporatist world. Bill Clinton was so utterly mired in corruption that he gave us collective nausea. W. Bush turned out nation into a police surveillance state, turning the War on Terror into a War Against American Freedom. And, of course, Obama. In retrospect, it would be hard to judge whether Republicans or Democrats would have made worse, and more disastrous leaders.
3) The one saving grace is that at least the states have now come to understand how vicious the ravages inflicted by the federal government have been, though there is little they can do to mitigate them. They have torn down much of the War on Drugs, at least against marijuana, the federals most profitable and corrupt estate; and they have restored much of our gun rights, at least allowing us to defend ourselves at the individual level against the unthinking, criminal brutes that menace us.
But the people crave someone who will lift us out of this cesspit of irresponsible filth, restoring what is ours to us, at the expense of the bloated, overreaching, oppressive and tyrannical government.
The rest of the world can go to Hell, as we no longer want to uplift them at the cost of our own prosperity; we no longer want to admit the heathen masses who yearn to tear down what we have built to make us like the tyrannies they left behind; we no longer want multinational corporations to exploit our markets, while returning us neither taxes, nor to hire Americans, nor to buy from us; we are tired of it all.
And we are especially sick of dynastic insiders, who seek to rule over us because of the accident of birth and the access to billions of lobbyist dollars. We are sick of the bureaucratic Mandarins who heap endless regulations on us to smother us in micromanagement. Sick, sick, sick.
This is why Americans want guns. And this is why Americans are hoping against hope for someone who will tear down this Fortress of Ultimate Darkness that is the federal government.
Right on, my friend.
Most here are probably too young to remember when England was BEGGING Americans for any type of firearm, any caliber as long as it shoots. Hundreds of thousands of firearms from private owners were sent over to them so they could arm themselves against the German invasion.
In a nutshell, we saved their sorry asses.
The BBC refuses to acknowledge that our Second Amendment stemmed from the Founding Fathers’ memories of one King George.
I want a gun for three reasons (listed in descending order,by importance)
1) Because the Constitution confirms and acknowledges my right to have one
2) Because the Rat Party doesn't want me to have one
3) Because when seconds count,the police are minutes away
I want and have a gun(s) because I have family, and I will shot any thug who tries to come into my house. Or other places.
Yes. But the notion of protecting ourselves from, and reining in, an oppressive government go much further back in the history of the English law that provided the foundation for our Constitution.
The supreme irony is that, of all peoples, the inhabitants of the British Isles ought to understand better than anyone the American notion of guns and freedom. They have lost their history. I pray we do not do the same.
I honestly believe that the real number of registered and non-registered firearms in america would be closer to 600,000,000....can anyone reasonably disagree? This is just a guess...I live in the deep south and most everyone i know has at least 5 guns minimum.
...and that’s not counting the ones they lost in that terrible boating accident.
One word: freedom.
Would you disagree? I know that joke (used it myself when house burned down) but seriously...I can’t imagine just 1 gun per American....I’d like to know if Freepers think it is much higher.
Once in Tokyo, a Japanese woman asked me why Americans needed guns since there were no more hostile indians or wild animals. When I told her it was to protect us from an aggressive government she shut down the conversation and stormed away. Truth, reality and facts are like various forms of Kryptonite to liberals.
At least that number. With nothing more than storing them away from the elements, most firearms will still function fine 100 years after they were manufactured.
Many estimates assume guns become unserviceable after 30 or 40 years, like most other consumer products.
Wrong, the quote is, “some dude just shot me.”
Usually it’s behind the 7-11 at 3am.
Estimates are 80 % of the 14,000 homicides (not suicides or accidents) are gang related. The USA really doesnt have a gun violence problem (yes I hate that term too) so much as it has a criminal minorities with guns problem. If you could eliminate gang gun violence, the USA become the most peaceful country in the world by a large margin. Bloomturd is batshit crazy but he is right about disarming minorities to drastically reduce crime. Of course he wants to disarm everyone and the minorities are just to get the process rolling.
“since there were no more hostile indians or wild animals.”
Oh, but there are.
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