tweakabelle
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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle The reactions of pro-fun posters are alarmingly predictable. It doesn't seem to matter how tragic the circumstances, how stupid the behaviour of the people involved, how senseless and avoidable the shootings were. It is never the fault of legal responsible gun wielding people. The tragedy is never the result of the gross over supply and easy availability of guns or inexperienced/untrained/poorly trained people having access to firearms. It's always something else ........ The right to life trumps all other rights and it is this right that is so regularly violated. Second Amendment rights are meaningless to the thousands of victims of legal/illegal gun violence as they lie in their coffins. I'm glad I don't live in a place where the right to bear lethal weapons over rides the right to life. This....again and again THIS Nice post tweak . Stupid post actually. The reactions of anti gun posters, while not alarming are equally predictable. Sure the right to life trumps all other rights so that means we have a right to not be sitting ducks like all those guys in France. If ya want to talk about gun availability, France doesn't have gun availability. They have more regulations and gun control than Chicago and New York City combined. So I have to ask again, where did those assholes get their AK 47's ? I'm glad that we agree that the "right to life trumps all other rights". However the example you chose to make your point - the recent terrorist outrage in France - makes my case more than yours. If gun availability decreases the chances of fatalities occurring, as you seem to be arguing, then the French case disproves the claim. In Paris, there was two armed and trained police officers specifically tasked with protecting the offices and staff of the magazine. If the argument that widespread availability of guns - the 'armed citizen' argument so often touted by the gun lobby - had any validity, the presence of armed and trained guards would have either prevented or reduced the scale of the outrage in Paris. Yet the presence of these two officers failed utterly to prevent the slaughter. All the presence of armed guards seems have achieved is to have increased the level of terrorist violence. Equally if this 'armed citizen' argument had any validity and has more substance than the pie-in-the-sky pro-gun fantasy it sounds like, then incidents of hostage taking and mass slaughter wouldn't occur in areas where there is widespread availability and access to firearms. But incidents of hostage taking and mass slaughter seem to occur with distressing regularity in the USA, where there are more than enough guns to go around. Again the argument fails miserably.
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