Gun Control

A perfect example.



See, I'm not opposed to listening to both sides of an argument.  Maybe that's why I wonder how people think it's so easy to come down on one side or the other of these major debates.  In the case of at least three people I know personally, it's because they listen to their own party's agenda, read their propaganda  and buy unquestioningly into every spin their side puts onto the other side's perfectly good arguments.

So, I watched this whole thing and this is exactly what I'm talking about.  It starts out sounding like a great argument, but within 2 minutes, he's talking as though what the gun control advocates are talking about is *taking away all guns from citizens everywhere*.  People do have the right to protect themselves everywhere and yeah, often a person uses their weapon to defend themselves, but until I hear the gun control opponents talking about this issue in sweeping statements as though the advocates are not talking about taking away ALL guns, we won't get anywhere!

Just like we won't get anywhere if the advocates don't stop saying that taking away high powered rifles is going to solve a damned thing.  Both sides have cute metaphors that make a lot of sense, but neither side actually addresses the real problem.  They talk about taking away guns or not taking away guns.  They say we need to address crime, but don't offer any specific details on how to go about that.  Advocates think better background checks will help, but either way bad people are bad people and will kill.  Guns help.  Not having high powered rifles might slow it down a bit and that sounds damn good when you hear about all the innocent small children recently lost because of high powered weapons.  Still, the argument continues with each side saying the same things over and over again.  Meanwhile, the opposite side isn't asking for the same things.  What they ask changes.  The answer doesn't apply to the new question.  NO ONE IS LISTENING.  They're all too busy trying to figure out what they are going to say that they don't hear the question.

My question?  What ARE you going to do about it?  Stop talking and do something.

Look, the fact is, you are both wrong, but you keep spouting the exact same propaganda over and over which is why WE WILL NEVER GET ANYWHERE.  AT ALL.  EVER.

I am also impressed by this graphic, though it is a little too "advocate" heavy...

My bigger point in posting that is to make the point that we talk and talk and talk about the amendment giving people the right to have guns, but read it, please. The whole thing.  Not just that one line.  Where is the well-regulated militia? How is private gun ownership contributing to the security of freedom?  Remember this amendment was created so that those who had branched out and struggled greatly to establish themselves in what became the US could come together and defend themselves against big bad government at the time - the monarchy.

Of course, no where in there does it take into account the fact that we have so many people and such a poor record on keeping crime at bay that ordinary citizens feel they need to carry a weapon to defend themselves because they can't trust that anyone else will help them...