I remember a documentary where this guy walked around New York City asking people questions to see if they could answer them correctly, and he went up to this blond girl and asked her "Where is the Statue of Liberty located" and she answered "Washington?" I couldn't believe her stupidity. She probably sees it everyday and has no idea what it is.
"That’s interesting because I think it was the idea when the 2nd Amendment was added to prevent the government from controlling us."
How about you read the bottom of my post and you'll see that I've already stated that. Trust me, I know the amendments and the history of the United States. Heck, I even used to have a pocket book that has all the amendments that I used to carry around when I went to school.
"Criminals will always find a way to get handguns just like how they always find drugs."
The reason they can is because they are already all over the place. You cant find a way to get them if they're not there to begin with. Had the second amendment been written more thoughtfully or not at all then we wouldn't have that problem would we? I also don't think that drugs is a good comparison. Drugs can be made in your kitchen with simple chemicals or grown in your house. Anyone can do it with some research if they really wanted too, but I doubt you could go and make a decent gun that fires like ones you would buy. Then you have to find out how to make the ammo too.
I think they should be taken away. Who cares how unconstitutional it is. It's only unconstitutional if the people are against it, which I'm not so I see it as perfectly fine. It's because of this article that there is such a high crime rate in the United States. I mean, it's common knowledge that our prisons are reaching their breaking point in capacity. Anyone can go out onto the street now-a-days and buy a gun from some shady drug dealer. Even then it's not difficult to get a license and go buy one at Wal-mart. Heck you can even buy machine guns with a high enough license...thats ridiculous! The AR-15 can even be modified to military standards pretty much making it a M-16 assault rifle! Look at Japan. Their city with the highest crime rate is at like .05%. New York is something like 20%. The biggest difference is that in Japan, owning a gun is illegal, unlike here in the US where they can be picked up by kids and brought to school. If you want more concrete info then theres about 1.1 murders in Japan for every 100,000 people, and the US is 8.7 per 100,000 people. Everyone saying that they shouldn't get rid of guns because it's not fair to the "law abiding citizens" just remember that its these people who also turn around and use them to kill. Also, the less guns there are then the less crimes there are and less of a reason for you to have a need to protect yourself. It's a fact that guns make it easy to gain control over people. There's a huge difference between someone robing a bank with a gun than that of one using a knife. Considering most bankers are behind protective glass, without a gun your virtually powerless, and you can't really order people to "get down" with a knife because they would just run out. You have to look at this from an outsiders perspective rather than a prideful American living in the USA. I say prideful because most people probably look at this law as one of the main reasons we can call ourselves the most free country in the world, but fact is that it's a very poorly constructed and misunderstood rule that our forefathers only put in with the intent on preventing a government takeover and not for citizens to protect themselves from would be attackers other than Washington.
Talk about over dramatized. While I do know that children are greatly impressionable, in most of those cases they would be scared and crying as a result since thats the only way they know how to react. They wouldn't be pounding on their mother with their fists or making themselves vomit.
How about you read the bottom of my post and you'll see that I've already stated that. Trust me, I know the amendments and the history of the United States. Heck, I even used to have a pocket book that has all the amendments that I used to carry around when I went to school.
"Criminals will always find a way to get handguns just like how they always find drugs."
The reason they can is because they are already all over the place. You cant find a way to get them if they're not there to begin with. Had the second amendment been written more thoughtfully or not at all then we wouldn't have that problem would we? I also don't think that drugs is a good comparison. Drugs can be made in your kitchen with simple chemicals or grown in your house. Anyone can do it with some research if they really wanted too, but I doubt you could go and make a decent gun that fires like ones you would buy. Then you have to find out how to make the ammo too.