12-18-2013, 09:28 PM
cbelt3 wrote:
Swampy makes a good point. To improve it... LIberals encourage and exhort voters and lawmakers to restrict the right to bear arms because of the acts of a few lunatics.
That's a very true statement.
As a liberal, I don't entirely disagree. I would paraphrase a bit, to point out that it's the acts of more than just a few, and most are not really lunatics, just people who become uncontrollably angry, or lack self control, or are trying to commit a crime. There are also the depressed people who shoot themselves. When you get to thirty thousand dead, it's a big number, albeit due to a lot of separate causes. The major argument is that we as a people have to worry about guns being used against us in public places and in schools, under circumstances where we have nothing to do with the precipitating cause or mental illness. The counter to that argument is that the United States is uniquely safe from a suppressive government due to all the armed citizens. The counter-counter argument is that when an oppressive government comes into being, it will be wrapped in the flag and in religion. I see a little of that latter case already.