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“Peace begins with a smile..”
― Mother Teresa
In the 23 most "civilized" nations of the world, 80% of those killed by guns will be American.
Around 30,000 Americans will be shot and killed this year, just as last year and the year before that.
I'm faced with NRA ads on television about how Obama will take away our guns and how that will be devastating...they even imply that guns are the only way women can walk alone.
They won't even reinstate the bans on automatic and semi-automatic weapons, in what alternate universe are they banning handguns?
I understand that some people like guns AND can be responsible with them. If someone wants to hunt and use every piece of the animal that they murder, I'm fine with that, too.
However...No, the second amendment does not give you that right. The second amendment gives you the right to have arms AS part of a militia which means proper training, plus, having to protect our nation.
Less than ten percent of the population has served in our armed forces so they want to have arms without really understanding the militia part...
I thought letting civilians have Humvees in the form of Hummers was stupid, too.
I know I shouldn't let the tv ads get me so upset but the nation gets upset after Tucson, after Aurora, after Milwaukee and then, we do...nothing. We end up just accepting it.
― Mother Teresa
In the 23 most "civilized" nations of the world, 80% of those killed by guns will be American.
Around 30,000 Americans will be shot and killed this year, just as last year and the year before that.
I'm faced with NRA ads on television about how Obama will take away our guns and how that will be devastating...they even imply that guns are the only way women can walk alone.
They won't even reinstate the bans on automatic and semi-automatic weapons, in what alternate universe are they banning handguns?
I understand that some people like guns AND can be responsible with them. If someone wants to hunt and use every piece of the animal that they murder, I'm fine with that, too.
However...No, the second amendment does not give you that right. The second amendment gives you the right to have arms AS part of a militia which means proper training, plus, having to protect our nation.
Less than ten percent of the population has served in our armed forces so they want to have arms without really understanding the militia part...
I thought letting civilians have Humvees in the form of Hummers was stupid, too.
I know I shouldn't let the tv ads get me so upset but the nation gets upset after Tucson, after Aurora, after Milwaukee and then, we do...nothing. We end up just accepting it.
