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Brian Ross wrote on Apr 9 th, 2019 at 7:59pm: Richdude wrote on Apr 9 th, 2019 at 1:49am: I am neither brainwashed nor am I a "collectivist". I believe that gun ownership is a privilege. The US has gotten it badly wrong by according it the status of a "right". However, that is the US's problem and as we have seen, it has already accepted that it is possible to regulate ownership of some kinds of firearms. All I am suggesting is that it should be extended to semi-automatic firearms, nothing more. Quote Brian
You just made my point - thank you!
"Benefits and privileges" are what prisoners have. You still have a convict mentality ....... its depressing. Free men and woman living in a free country have freedom and responsibility. Freedom to do what you chose to and responsibility to do no harm to others. We don't need permission - a permit or license. Where as you ask "am I allowed to do ......... and what are the regulations" You have given away your rights to others who probably couldn't run a fruit stand.
So what are you afraid of? Do you think that if people have more freedom - chaos will ensure? That Ozzies are not mature enough to have more freedom? Hmm ... maybe. There is no correlation between regulation and civil chaos. I am afraid of fools and gun nuts who believe more guns means increased safety when in reality, what it means is increased risk. Risk that some idiot will misuse their legally purchased firearms to kill innocent people simply because they are the ones who the gun nut dislikes. Be they children or Muslims or Black people or Gay people or anybody who pisses the gun nut off. I am afraid of fools and gun nuts who refuse to use their firearms safely. I am afraid of kids who get a hold of their parent's guns & shot one another. Richdude, you're welcome to live in your Wild West society but I am also welcome to tell you that it is a Wild West society and that your fellow Americans are fools and gun nuts. Now, please, run along. Oh, yes, please stop misquoting your favourite amendment to your Constitution the way that all you gun nuts do... Finally, stop stereotyping me as a "Communist/Socialist/Convict." I am none of those things in the way you use them. If you continue to do it, you might find yourself being sorry for doing it. Americans have been taking risks far more than their closest rivals......that's why as the total package they lead the World. Their overall entrepreneurship is second to none, enabling a continual sustained economic supremacy. This is also born out why the United States is far and away the most popular destination for the world’s immigrants.
With more than 46.6 million foreign-born residents living in the U.S., the country has nearly four times as many immigrants as any other nation in the world.
The attraction to the United States is largely due to opportunity - economic and social.
The U.S. is the world’s largest economy & has one the highest per capita GDPs in the world.
The U. S. also offers a well-developed infrastructure, financial markets, a solid education system, & religious freedoms.
Among the list of superlatives, making America so attractive to informed immigrants, is the fact that America is so well known for it's Freedoms, through which the American People enjoy an extremely high level of Liberty......
Legitimate Freedoms, Freedoms that are not granted by government, a government capable of taking them away at will & at any time......always at risk......Freedoms that are guaranteed them by the American People themselves in their Constitution's "Bill of Rights", where it's the American People who dictate to the Government.....not the other way around........the American People dictate what the Government is permitted to do, what limited powers the government actually has, & specifically what the Government is not permitted to do regarding the People's individual & collective Freedoms & Liberties.
The American People, the Founding Fathers, in devising the Second Amendment, affirms that all law abiding Americans have the Natural Right to defend their lives, the lives of their friends & family, & the Right to protect their property.....keep what is theirs.....out of the government's hands as well as out of criminal hands.
The Founding Fathers made very sure that all the Rights affirmed, defended, & guaranteed in the Bill of Rights......the bedrock of the US Constitution.....could be protected from government overreach & tyranny, by affirming the Individual Right of the American People to Keep & Bear Arms, & that the government is not permitted to infringe upon that Right.
In America the Right to Keep & Bear Arms is truly a Right, a Right not granted by the government, & far, far away from being a Privilege that the government is free to rescind at it's whim, at any time.
It is with this Right that the American People are able to Protect & Defend all the other Rights contained within the Bill of Rights, & many other Rights that are Naturally theirs......
This is just some of what makes America Great, & why far & away America is the most popular destination for the world’s immigrants, & why they choose America as the #1 place they'd prefer to reside.
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