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2015-10-15 -Land of the Free

Seven Questions Britain Has For America About Guns

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Posted by badanov 2015-10-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Why are the euros so worried about our gun control laws?

Posted by chris 2015-10-15 00:14|| 2015-10-15 00:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Why are the euros so worried about our gun control laws?

Because they need USA as muscle to enforce their utopia on the World---which means USA has to be controlled.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-10-15 04:44|| 2015-10-15 04:44|| Front Page Top

In the first few years of the 20th Century, they had lost their Republics, their livestock, farms, land, and many of their families had been relocated to vast kamps where thousands perished. They eventually surrendered their guns as well. Who could have done such a thing ?

Posted by Besoeker 2015-10-15 06:31|| 2015-10-15 06:31|| Front Page Top

#4 and yet you have an income tax and other forms of neo-slavery.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2015-10-15 07:20|| 2015-10-15 07:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Yes, employment is still penalized by both the State and the Federal Governments. This yoke will only be lifted when everyone finally works for the state. Our betters in Washington continue to feverishly working toward this reality.

"You didn't make that"~ BHO

Posted by Besoeker 2015-10-15 09:04|| 2015-10-15 09:04|| Front Page Top

#6 When written, "well-regulated" meant "well-supplied". I blame the change in meaning of "regulated" on the steam engine.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2015-10-15 11:42|| 2015-10-15 11:42|| Front Page Top

#7 I would answer thus:

Good laws (that is laws that work as intended) are backed by statistics not passion 'must do something' rhetoric.
1. Statistics have proven that the more guns = less crime.
2. Mass killings have just about all occured in gun-free zones.
3. Gun control efforts always attempt to disarm the law abiding but do nothing to get guns from criminals.

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-10-15 12:48|| 2015-10-15 12:48|| Front Page Top

#8 How easy is it to get a gun license in America? What is process?

Apologies for bluntly exposing your ignorance but there is no "gun license" requirement for US citizens. In other words, Americans aren't required to ask permission to excersise their constitutional rights - guns or otherwise.

Posted by DepotGuy 2015-10-15 12:57|| 2015-10-15 12:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Whoever answered the questions posed above about gun control is very poorly informed.
First, Our 2nd Amendment to our Constitution needs to be read properly. There are two clauses in the 2nd Amendment. The first clause is a prefatory clause to introduce the reason behind the operative clause. The anti-gun liberals hate that comma between the two clauses.
The "gun lobby" is funded to express the views of the people who own firearms civilly. The alternative is not desired by hundreds of millions of firearm owners.
We do not have a higher rate of deaths than comparable countries. Overall the US is in 44th place as far as gun deaths. The 43 that have higher gun deaths than the US all have a total ban on firearms. If the black on black murders are removed from the US total firearms deaths in the US, we are one of the safest countries in the world. The way the question is put forth above states its own conclusion. Kind of like, "When will you mother get out of prison".
I have never lived in a state that required a license to buy a firearm. The license requirement in itself would be an infringement of our rights.
In actuality we or all able bodied citizens in the US are supposed to have what would be considered a "service rifle" and if called upon we should be ready to defend our country. Obama has changed the oath of Citizenship for Muslims so Muslims don't have to swear to defend the US.The name service rifle implies many things but primarily it refers to military grade (durable) weapons for which the US stocks ammunition and parts. This would allow the US to almost instantly field a massive Army of trained riflemen. This is why our military sells obsolete rifles to Americans. Further Americans have purchased military rifles from other countries. Did you ever wonder where the 18,000,000 German Mausers went? How about the 15,000,000 British Enfields or all of the M-1 Garands, M-1 Carbines, Japanese Arisakas that were all used in WW-2.
Frankly, I am very proud of all of the law abiding armed citizens who have decided to use the ballot box for a regime change.

Posted by David169 2015-10-15 13:03|| 2015-10-15 13:03|| Front Page Top

#10 This is much better.

Posted by Iblis 2015-10-15 13:31|| 2015-10-15 13:31|| Front Page Top

#11 Excellent video Iblis.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-10-15 13:39|| 2015-10-15 13:39|| Front Page Top

#12 Police Officer Shot In East London Street

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2015-10-15 15:47|| 2015-10-15 15:47|| Front Page Top

#13 Also keep in mind that "gun deaths" also include suicides (61%) and death by cop (Numbers not kept by govt.). Even removing death by cop, gun violence statistics should be reduced by almost 2/3. Granted some suicides may not have taken place without the convenience of a gun, but I bet it's a statistically insignificant number. Who cares about facts though. Let's just keep the narrative going that America is a Wild West shootout where we are lucky to survive from day to day.

Posted by Lowspark 2015-10-15 18:50|| 2015-10-15 18:50|| Front Page Top

#14 People figuring out ways to kill People is as old as People, even if the person is their self.

Take away all the firearms in the world, and the suicidal will be lined up waiting to propose to a Kardashian.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-10-15 19:04|| 2015-10-15 19:04|| Front Page Top

#15 I live in Vermont. Were it not for three cities, this would be a deeply conservative state. But carpetbaggers gonna be carpetbaggers. Vermont has the best gun ownership and carry laws in the country.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2015-10-15 20:13|| 2015-10-15 20:13|| Front Page Top

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