Brian Ross wrote on Mar 22
nd, 2019 at 1:24pm:
Captain Nemo wrote on Mar 22
nd, 2019 at 12:29pm:
Hmm ... since the 1996 change, no mass shootings in Australia with semi-automatic weapons.
Sounds like a good result to me.
Mind you, there are still nutters who shoot people ... they just find it way more difficult to get hold of Semi-auto's.
Funny, isn't it, that the New Zealanders, after Christchurch are now following Australia as far as Gun Control legislation is concerned.
Americans appear too stupid. How many Americans have to die before they see sense and regulate gun ownership? 100? 1,000? 10,000? 100,000? Who knows. It is just unfortunate that people have to die before they realise that guns in the wrong hands are dangerous...
New Zealand has a population of almost 5,000,000 and will change its laws based on an emotional response to the actions of one person! Did you read that "
one Person
"!!!
“The real lesson to be learned from the Christchurch massacre is that madmen aren’t deterred by gun control laws, or laws against murder. Morality doesn’t enter into their thinking, so honest people must be prepared for the unthinkable and be able to respond.” Alan Gottlieb, Second Amendment Foundation
Americans are not raised in a culture of servitude to a Monarchy and do not trust any Government to represent them justly. We do not recognize a class system that Subjects of the Queen do! What I have and what I do is none of your business or anyone else's as long as I am not interfering with the Rights of others.
We are a Constitutional Republic, not a Banana Republic. Cubans, Venezuelans all “turned in” their weapons to the government, as have countless numbers of people who like sheep turned in their only means of defense and paid for it with massacres. The only people with guns in those countries were the military and police. The people were at the mercy of ruthless agencies that killed them en masse.
We also don’t take kindly to the government demanding that we turn in our weapons. Some estimates say there are somewhere around 393 MILLION guns in this country – our population is only slightly over 327 Million. That’s more than one gun per person.
Why is the NRA able to accept some gun laws but fight against others? Because it is made up of people with differing opinions and different views of Natural law. Those who compromise fail to understand it isn't a compromise when one side gets some of what they want and the other side gets nothing! I am a voting member of the NRA and any quisling who wants to compromise loses my vote. My response to more gun laws is "No, No, No, and I will vote against any politician on the ballot on election day that votes against my Rights!
The Constitution is not a living breathing curiosity able to be reinterpreted as the Progressives see fit! It means the same thing today as the first day it was ratified! A law that decides a shotgun with an 18 inch barrel is acceptable but one with a 17.9 inch barrel is a dangerous prohibited weapon is both absurd and a sure path to 10 years in prison. (unless approved for ownership by the ATF)
Permission Hey Mort, answer this. Why do you love your guns more than your children?