I can't believe there are still people who think they have 'good reasons' for carrying firearms or thinking it's a normal thing after what went down (again) in Monterey Park..

Shooting after shooting and nothing changes. Where are all your 'protection guns' if you need them?

Seriously, it's like talking to a wall but walls listen better in general..

Most people can't handle a phone, let alone a gun or worse :nkoFacepalm:

Ofc situations are different everywhere in the world but that shouldn't be an excuse to not make changes!

A little example, that I am personally very happy with:

If you are spotted with a firearm(fake or real) here in the #Netherlands, a special police unit will be called in to arrest your ass..

Weapons are NOT normal, if you feel you have to carry it something is wrong around you or with you..

Stop making excuses.. it's getting old real fast

Imagine...

An advanced alien spieces have scoped out Earth and decided to check us out but not for us hoomans but to safe all other spieces.

I have no explaination for our behaviour against each other or the planet we live on, I kinda would be ashamed to present what we have now..

Corruption on the highest levels, people playing with others life, eating the planet away..

Ants are more fair than hoomans are.. that's freaking absurd

For the aliens sake, let's improve drastically!

@stux

The reason why guns are legal in the US is because the drafters of the Bill of Rights wanted to make sure people could defend their lives and their freedom from anyone who would try to take their lives or freedom away, including an oppressive government.

In the US our country just killed over a million of its own citizens. A government like that, lacking in any conscience or morality could just as easily decide to start rounding up it citizens for who knows what reason. It happened in Germany, it could happen here.

Living in a country like that, I'd say we definitely need to keep our guns -- just in case.

FYI, guns in US are used defensively to protect lives three times as often as they are used to commit a crime.

@Pat @stux The second ammendment was a concession to anti-Federalists who did not like the idea of the federal government raising a permanent standing army. It had nothing to do with personal protection. That interpretation came much later from the gun lobby.

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@gneilyo @stux

The right to self-defense is a natural right that exists irrespective of any laws that attempt to recognize of prohibit it. That right predates the US Bill of Rights by millennia.

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