Here is an EXCELLENT article on why Pro-Gun people don't trust Anti-Gun people.
Excerpt:
"Gun people dont trust anti-gun people because anti-gunners always talk about 90 percent of Americans supporting this gun control measure, or 65 percent supporting that one, as if a majority opinion is what truly matters in America. We dont trust anti-gun people because you think America is a democracy, when its actually a constitutional federal republic. In the American system, the rights of a single individual are what matters and are what our system is designed to protect. The emotional mob does not rule in America.
Gun people dont trust anti-gun people because they keep saying they respect the Second Amendment and go on about how they respect the hunting traditions of America. We dont trust you because you have to be a complete idiot to think the Second Amendment is about hunting. I wish people werent so stupid that I have to say this: The Second Amendment is about checking government tyranny. Period. End of story. The founders probably couldnt have cared less about hunting since, you know, they just got done with that little tiff with England called the Revolutionary War right before they wrote that little book called the Constitution.
Gun people dont trust anti-gun people because they lie to us. President Obama directly says he wont tamper with guns or the Second Amendment, then turns around and pushes Congress to do just that. We dont trust anti-gunners because they appoint one of the most lying and rabidly (and moronically) anti-gun people in America, Vice President Biden, to head up a task force to solve the so-called gun problem, who in turn talks with anti-gun special interest groups instead of us to complete his task.
Gun people dont trust anti-gun people because they tell us they dont want to ban guns, only enact what they call common sense gun laws. But like a magician using misdirection, they tell everyone else they want to ban every gun everywhere. While some are busy trying to placate us with lies, another anti-gunner somewhere submits a gun ban proposal proposals that often would automatically make us felons for possession. Felons, for no good reason. And you anti-gunners can roll up your grandfather clauses and stuff them where the sun dont shine. If it aint good enough for our grandchildren in 60 years, it aint good enough for us right now.
Gun people dont trust anti-gun people because they make horrifying predictions about how there will be blood in the streets, gunfights on every street corner and America will become the Wild West again if citizens are allowed to carry concealed firearms. We dont trust anti-gun people because we know that despite the millions of Americans who have carry permits, those who carry guns commit crimes at a much lower rate than people who dont. We know because we know ourselves and were not criminals. We know because concealed carry is now legal nearly everywhere, and guess what? Violent crime continues to go down. What a shocker.
Gun people dont trust anti-gun people because they say gun control is about crime control. Anti-gunners claim that ending crime and saving children is why they want to ban so-called assault weapons. Yet our very own government says that assault weapons are used in less than two percent of all gun crimes and Department of Justice studies say the last assault weapons ban had little or no effect on crime. Other studies suggest gun control may even make crime worse (one need only look to high crime rates in places where theres a lot of gun control to see the possible connection).
Gun people dont trust anti-gun people because when it comes to their We need gun control to save the children argument, many of us cant understand how an anti-gun liberal can simultaneously be in favor of abortion. Because you know, a ban on abortion would save a child every single time. Im personally not rabidly against abortion, but the discongruence makes less sense still when the reason abortions are legal is to protect a womans individual rights. Thats great, but does the individual rights argument sound familiar? Anti-gunners think that for some bizarre reason, the founding fathers happened to stick a collective right smack dab at the top of a list of individual rights, though. Yeah, because that makes sense."
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Excerpt:
"Gun people dont trust anti-gun people because anti-gunners always talk about 90 percent of Americans supporting this gun control measure, or 65 percent supporting that one, as if a majority opinion is what truly matters in America. We dont trust anti-gun people because you think America is a democracy, when its actually a constitutional federal republic. In the American system, the rights of a single individual are what matters and are what our system is designed to protect. The emotional mob does not rule in America.
Gun people dont trust anti-gun people because they keep saying they respect the Second Amendment and go on about how they respect the hunting traditions of America. We dont trust you because you have to be a complete idiot to think the Second Amendment is about hunting. I wish people werent so stupid that I have to say this: The Second Amendment is about checking government tyranny. Period. End of story. The founders probably couldnt have cared less about hunting since, you know, they just got done with that little tiff with England called the Revolutionary War right before they wrote that little book called the Constitution.
Gun people dont trust anti-gun people because they lie to us. President Obama directly says he wont tamper with guns or the Second Amendment, then turns around and pushes Congress to do just that. We dont trust anti-gunners because they appoint one of the most lying and rabidly (and moronically) anti-gun people in America, Vice President Biden, to head up a task force to solve the so-called gun problem, who in turn talks with anti-gun special interest groups instead of us to complete his task.
Gun people dont trust anti-gun people because they tell us they dont want to ban guns, only enact what they call common sense gun laws. But like a magician using misdirection, they tell everyone else they want to ban every gun everywhere. While some are busy trying to placate us with lies, another anti-gunner somewhere submits a gun ban proposal proposals that often would automatically make us felons for possession. Felons, for no good reason. And you anti-gunners can roll up your grandfather clauses and stuff them where the sun dont shine. If it aint good enough for our grandchildren in 60 years, it aint good enough for us right now.
Gun people dont trust anti-gun people because they make horrifying predictions about how there will be blood in the streets, gunfights on every street corner and America will become the Wild West again if citizens are allowed to carry concealed firearms. We dont trust anti-gun people because we know that despite the millions of Americans who have carry permits, those who carry guns commit crimes at a much lower rate than people who dont. We know because we know ourselves and were not criminals. We know because concealed carry is now legal nearly everywhere, and guess what? Violent crime continues to go down. What a shocker.
Gun people dont trust anti-gun people because they say gun control is about crime control. Anti-gunners claim that ending crime and saving children is why they want to ban so-called assault weapons. Yet our very own government says that assault weapons are used in less than two percent of all gun crimes and Department of Justice studies say the last assault weapons ban had little or no effect on crime. Other studies suggest gun control may even make crime worse (one need only look to high crime rates in places where theres a lot of gun control to see the possible connection).
Gun people dont trust anti-gun people because when it comes to their We need gun control to save the children argument, many of us cant understand how an anti-gun liberal can simultaneously be in favor of abortion. Because you know, a ban on abortion would save a child every single time. Im personally not rabidly against abortion, but the discongruence makes less sense still when the reason abortions are legal is to protect a womans individual rights. Thats great, but does the individual rights argument sound familiar? Anti-gunners think that for some bizarre reason, the founding fathers happened to stick a collective right smack dab at the top of a list of individual rights, though. Yeah, because that makes sense."
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kay:
So fucking true.
ponycorn:
Thank u for the support have a nice weekend Xoxo