Interesting post - and you are obviously passionate about it - but to me still that does not justify a rule that allows a person to carry a gun on his person. Nothing will convince me otherwise - and this simply is not the way Jesus taught. And here in Britain we are trying to remove knives off the street as well. Yes there are mental issues involved in these shootings - but these innocent people would not have died if the lunatic had not been able to get hold of the guns in the first place.B. W. wrote:To those of you in other countries who do not understand why the USA has a 2nd amendment right to keep and bear arms and are into name calling /ridicule anyone who supports the right to bear arms you may not like what I am about to write.
First off, the democratic socialist style governments overseas only had the chance to last as long as is has is due to the fact that the US Military oversaw the defense of the west during the cold war years. We supplied the means to deter over Soviet aggression; therefore, many of your governments could do all those wonderful social programs for you without the need for a strong military budget. Also, you all appear to me to trust your government’s benevolence implicitly. Maybe this is due in part to your national history being of subjects to monarchies which led to this mindset, I don't know. However, it is clear that you trust your government to do the right thing. As CS Lewis wrote in the Screwtape Letters in England a man was once taxed for cutting his his own tree down in his own yard along with a tax on the use of the ax. He used sarcasm in this example to show at what lengths people trust progressive style governments like a frog being slowly boiled in water. I am sure you all have some very whacky laws and unnecessary regulations you all do not like but as as Screwtape alluded too - they put up with this sort of thing.
America at one time from 1945 to 1989 was once thought of, and rightly so, as the bastion against Tyranny of Soviet aggression and world domination. WE spent billions of dollars to ensure nations like yours could follow the progressive socialist utopias unhindered as you all did not have to amass mass capital to defend you counties. The USA did this for you. In doing so, the enemies of this bastion sought hard how to rid the world of the USA and began a long slow series of internal means to ensure our destruction. They have succeeded.
Much of this has taken place and America is basically no more. We have lost. There is no hope, no future, nothing left in America except balkanization and the USA dying for the sins of the world against its stand against tyranny. WE are a dead country. You all can no longer count on us to come to your aid if you are attacked. Islam in many of your countries is an overwhelming force. There is no one now who can stand with you. America has been defeated from within.
You may trust your government, but we don’t in the USA because we who once knew Americas greatness, do not. Our current government is not – let me repeat, NOT Benevolent like yours. Ours is corrupt. One party seeks absolute control over every aspect of its living citizens with tyrannical god like control. If you disagree with it, you are targeted by the IRS, ridiculed, shouted down into silence. Maybe you all are used to this tyranny, but I don't think so, we are not pleased with it either.
The founding Fathers of this Country rebelled against the divine right of Kings and central planning that – that brought about and set up a system of divided government, with checks and balances, as well as a Bill of Rights for its Citizens. In that Bill was the 2nd amendment which was for protection against marauders as well as a marauding tyranny of Govt who betrays its social contract – the US Constitution - with its citizens. If this is done away, who will protect us from the bullies in Govt?
You all saw and some of you felt the heel of Communism on your necks. You had your Governments lead you into WW1 and faced invading host of Hitler’s armies two decades later. Your Governments are not like ours. However, like your history, and you having enemies that sought your destruction, so do we. Now they are in power and in our Govt. Our country is dead, and none will come to our aid. Central planning has won. The anti-Christian hate here in America is growing. The Govt supports more single mothers wed to Govt and supports racism of revenge against the non-existing white privilege. That so called privilege may have been true in the 1960’s and in England in the 19 and 20 centuries with its spread of colonialism and white man’s burden, but in the USA that fizzled out in the 1960’s and 1970’s. I saw it and lived during that era during the civil rights era when it thankfully died. Racism was dying out and almost gone by 2009. Then came Obama and the poverty pimps and vamped it up again, this time, people of color racism based solely upon revenge against something that no loner existed.
Well our country is dead, not because of school shootings but due to liberal policies that seek to destroy the social order by letting out the violently crazy people from mental institutions. The assault on morality in America and the glorification of perversity has taken its toll. In your countries, you all address the issue if the criminally insane in a sane rational manner and actually make laws that are enforced. In the USA, that is not so as the crisis is viewed as needed to be perpetuated to bash and bludgeoned to death what was once good in America. That is the differences between our countries: politics.
So I guess you all can rejoice, America is dead and now tyrants of the world unite – the world is all yours, Europe is yours, America is yours, Communism, Islam, rejoice you won!
However, violent crazy people still do kill with knives, sticks, clubs, axes, fertilizer, explosives, so when will your country outlaw knives, scissors and even bare hands? Is that possible? After all, these kill too. No, again guns do not kill, nor knives or scissors, but people do. So it would be best to outlaw people and confine us all to our homes for life with no social interaction at all as that is the only sensible solution.
You see, in America, we don’t rust our govt like you all trust yours. Ours has turned on its citizens and any who dare question it are punished by ostracization or the IRS. So rejoice, America is dead. Be happy about that. Go ahead and believe the propaganda of our main stream media in its insane endeavor bring America down.
I will like to pop your bubble though before I go. There are no gun shots outside my door, no mass killings occurring as I walk down the street. The media would have you believe America is a mass of shootings, rapes, pillaging, crime and that it is not safe shop at the grocery store. In fact, the mass majority of America is still a very nice place with very nice folks who will help you change your flat tire if needed. However, you can’t tell this by the news media who only focus is on the bad with an political agenda for this action attached.
Like your big cities, there are bad places where folks need to avoid due to the depravity of human nature which is common to the human race, we have ours. The more the Democratic Party holds hostage peoples of color in poverty just to use them to canvass votes by telling lies about the evil Republicans and Independents wanting take away the goodies people of color are enslaved too – crime runs rampant in those parts. There are more shootings in Chicago ILL than anywhere else and all in the democrat party voting stronghold. Odd isn't it?
Elsewhere, outside these liberal meca’s of civil society, the crime rate is so very low that it is quite safe – just as it is your country. Please don’t be fooled by the media….
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Have to agree to disagree on this one. But I do sincerely apologise if my earlier outburst offend you in any way.
