Sickening. Every day, 120 Americans lose their lives to gun violence: another 200 are wound... every day. Sickening. So far this year, there has been 15,000 gun-related deaths in the U.S. During this same five-month period, only 31 British citizens have died from guns.
although the United States modeled its constitution after Britain's own constitution, when it comes to guns, the two countries, recently, have taken divergent paths. After two mass shootings in Britain - one in 1987, the other in 1996 - Britain's Conservative government instituted a near total ban of automatic and semi-automatic weapons.
People in the U.S. will be quick to cry: "We have a constitutional right to carry guns., The Brits don't." that Second Amendment right to carry guns that Americans so vociferously defend was written in 1787. It gave American citizens the right to own a musket. That is all. Our brilliant "fore"fathers should have had the "fore"sight to realize that just as weapons technology advanced from the bow and arrow to musket, one day it would advance from muskets to AR-15s. They did not look ahead. I wound, when AR-15 technology advances to "phasers", will we boast of our right to carry them, as well? Sickening.
1 comment:
Most definitely a 'sickness'! Yes Sir!! Can't shoot yourself in the foot if you don't have a gun, huh?!...YOU MOST CERTAINLY CAN!! It's called a DEMOCRACY! Take the fickleness of people and let them be the deciding factor of how the nation shall roll. Throw in some narcissistic & some noodle back politicians, sellout law makers, corrupt judges, and maybe a few truly concerned officials, all representing some aspect of government which (so called) serve the people. This ain't rocket science, but clearly a formula for (national) self-destruction more than "the agony of defeat" at the hands of the real powers that be. You said it before "the guns don't do the killing"! That makes gun control a smaller issue than the 'sick crazy people' issue. We can keep changing laws, but we're in too deep to change our type of government which I think is the key resolve, like some of the other nations. Keep Bangin' Cuz!
Tico
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