EliteKiller wrote:Pat Rice in Short Shorts wrote:Yup in Republican areas it's seen as an attack on some 400 year old outdated bullshit dogma - but that's not really where the problem lies.
Not true. It is the media line, but not true.
American culture revolves around freedom, liberty and a healthy distrust of government. The past three years have solidified those beliefs. Thank BLM and Biden for the massive increase in first time gun owners...mostly liberals. People do not know about any other organizations than the NRA. We have the Socialist Rifle Association, the African American Gun Association and many others that get no grief.
Ignoring the fact that America is a baby and has no real culture, legal gun ownership is not the problem. It's illegal gun ownership that causes the vast majority of homicides (up 30% in two years) and that shoot first gun 'culture' is barely a few years old. The US firearm homicide rate, whilst stupidly high, had been declining for the last 30 years, that all changed in 2014.
It has nothing to do with a centuries old document, most gun totting murders wouldn't know the constitution from having constipation, to even pretend that it matters to them is plain crazy.
Oh there is American culture, in fact there are regional subcultures. After all that is perhaps the biggest bitch about America, we export the bad aspects of our culture overseas. Gun violence and gang banging included.
Lets not forget the border issue in which cartels from all over bring drug violence to the US, both in cities and rural areas. If you take my state of Montana for instance. Gun violence is low, but what there is occurs between drug dealers/users and they center around Indian reservations.
If you look at places like Minnesota or Illinois the vast majority of gun violence is in the cities like Chicago and Minneapolis while the countryside where most legal gun owners are there is very little.
You are right, criminals don't care about much (until they try to rob an armed citizen). Average gun owners do care greatly. The Constitution does not afford 2nd Amendment rights to criminals anyway, so nobody is pretending on that front. Illegal gun ownership is illegal, legal gun ownership is legal. If a legal gun is used illegally then the owner becomes a criminal.
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