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It's pretty simple-- As an American, I have a right to the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I don't want to give up any rights I don't have to. That includes the freedom to buy and carry a gun.
But I DO have to give up the right to travel without being strip-searched. A nation of paradoxes.
Good that the man was not found there(in a sense that no one was harmed). I still would like to understand few things. Of course I shall not be able to understand how it feels to have a gun when you want it(and afterwards take a decision on how to use it. To defend yourself or flash in malls or kill children for fun or out of depression) as I live in a country where having fire-arms is either a luxury for powerful an…
The poor latency of police response means that rampage killers(or anybody bent on harming anybody, really) can get away with killing several unarmed civilians before they can be stopped.
In theory, concealed carry individuals can put a stop to the rampage or at least keep the killer busy until the police arrive. You can google news stories about concealed arm carriers defending themselves. So it does works.
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It's pretty simple-- As an American, I have a right to the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I don't want to give up any rights I don't have to. That includes the freedom to buy and carry a gun.
But I DO have to give up the right to travel without being strip-searched. A nation of paradoxes.
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It's pretty simple-- As an American, I have a right to the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I don't want to give up any rights I don't have to. That includes the freedom to buy and carry a gun.
Your freedom to buy and carry a gun infringes on my right to feel safe in public
Long rifle? Seems unlikely to me, but we should probably ban them. http://www.google.com/search?q=long+rifle&tbm=isch
They almost certainly mean "long arm/gun", e.g. not a handgun. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_gun
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It's pretty simple-- As an American, I have a right to the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I don't want to give up any rights I don't have to. That includes the freedom to buy and carry a gun.
I think this is the part a lot of people fail to understand. The mere existence of police that is supposed to protect people doesn't mean everyone in the society agrees to transfer all of those functions to it. Assuming that is pure ignorance. It still gets pretty hilarious when you ask to see your signature under this mythical social contract everyone supposedly signed.
You may be happy to take your chances and own and carry a firearm, but why should I, or any other bystander, have to take your chances?
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It's pretty simple-- As an American, I have a right to the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I don't want to give up any rights I don't have to. That includes the freedom to buy and carry a gun.
But I DO have to give up the right to travel without being strip-searched. A nation of paradoxes.
Indeed, you don't have to fly at all.
Being born and raised in Flint, and the victim of gun violence (father was murdered outside his work for 20+years over <$600) I always tell people Flint might be the murder capital of the world, but we aren't the random murder capitol of the world. For whatever its worth, its true.
Long rifle? Seems unlikely to me, but we should probably ban them. http://www.google.com/search?q=long+rifle&tbm=isch
I am sure banning them would have prevented this situation from ever happening.