Ummm... My point of comparing the size of the countries was to illustrate that while gun control might be practical on a tiny little island like the UK or even a marginally less tiny island like Japan... Wait... Is this where I'm supposed to be hilarious? Ok ok ok...
I get it.
...and other such mockery.
I'm not worried about career criminals plotting to steal my VCR as much as I'm worried about the average lazy idiot that decides it's easier to risk his life stealing stuff than it would be to get a job.
I agree with you on your point that ANYONE can own a gun for ANY reason is a bit scary, and even from a libertarian POV I can't read the 2nd Amendment and see where it says right to keep and bear arms and also stockpile them secretly. It's somewhat creepy to know my neighbor might have enough weaponry to arm his own Delta Force and none of the rest of us in the neighborhood has any right to know about that.
On the other hand, government databases that pinpoint the locations of every firearm in the country violates the 2nd in that it was written specifically to guard against government swinging authoritarian as well as to afford protection from ciminals when the government isn't doing it's job.
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I don't know the answer and I'm not sure there is one. Violence is too ingrained in humanity to offer any hope of us ever living in a peaceful world. Somehow this got twisted around to be something other than the "Kerry pretty much just flat out lied" discussion I'd intended. I'm not a "gun-nut" so I don't have the proper motivation to offer a good defense. I'm a reluctant gun owner that's bored with this non-argument now.
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Originally Posted by Chojin
For me to believe whatever facts it's going to throw at me, it has to first appeal to my common sense. Otherwise, I have no reason to believe it.
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Except maybe for that...
But I'll leave it for later.
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