My wife posted this on my timeline on facebook. I had a "discussion" with a person on there that happens to be anti gun. I am going to copy and paste the "discussion" for your entertainment.
Ron - WOW! Well said. Stick that up your ass and smoke it Bob Costas.
Pamela - I, for one, would love to see much stronger gun control laws in this country (I doubt it will ever happen, though, and we will continue to have situations like the one in the Colorado theater this past summer). Kudos to Costas and Whitlock for speaking up. I think it's a sad world we live in when we're more concerned with protecting people's rights to possess firearms than we are about people's rights to not be harmed by said weapons.
Ron - If there were someone in that theater that was legally armed...the threat would have ended quickly. Guns dont kill people...people kill people. Cars kill people...should we ban cars? Knives kill people...should we ban knives? Baseball bats kill people...should we ban baseball bats? NO! Because they are inanimate objects that are used by people to cause harm. Do spoons make people fat? No...people make themselves fat. If the government TRIES to ban firearms from legal owners....the only ones that will have them are criminals. Drug laws really took the drugs off the streets...eh?
Ron - Read the second amendment...for that matter...read all of them. They were put into place for the people to be protected from their government. Most sheeple just want to ban guns because they think that will solve all the worlds problems. Talk to ANY police officer worth his salt...all the ones i've talked to are totally for law abiding citizens to be armed. Because in their words "We cant be everywhere, and would welcome responsable law abiding citizens' help". When seconds count between life or death, the police are only minutes away.
Pamela - Ron, I would love to have this discussion some time when we see each other in person...it is too hard to do on FB because there are so many arguments that can be made, and honestly, I just don't have the time (prepping for finals/school projects right now). The only one that I will touch on is the argument about if someone else in the theater would have been armed. No one has ever been able to explain to me how having someone else fire a gun in a smoke filled theater with a panicked crowd at a target who was at the time unknown and almost completely covered in body armor would have prevented people from being killed. I would argue that it probably would have caused more deaths.
Pamela - The following blog sums up my feelings on the majority of the other points:
http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-4-most-meaningless-arguments-against-gun-control/The 4 Most Meaningless Arguments Against Gun Control
www.cracked.comPamela - One final note, I have spoken with several police officers (two of them live right in my subdivision), and not one of them has ever expressed that they wish more people (law abiding or not) were armed. They have said the exact opposite to me.
Ron - I dont hold a lot of faith in articles posted on the internet. I would be more than happy to have that discussion. I dont argue...I state my case plainly.
Pamela - And this is me stating mine. As for the article, I'm not saying you need to agree with it - it is just a pretty good summary of my views.
Ron - But, I will says this...do I think there are some people that own guns that shouldn't? Absolutely. But, I do not agree with just out right banning them. Think about this....if there were a gun ban...how in the world would this country defend ourselves from foreign invaders? Right now, there are more than 80 million legal firearm owners in this country...a foreign country trying to invade us would basically be committing suicide. If they somehow take our firearms away, this country is a sitting duck just waiting to be over run...kind of like shooting fish in a barrel.