@Otuk@mastodon.technology I too want to live in a country where I don't need a gun, a country where I dont need a gun but I have the right and ability to own one. What I dont want to live in is a country where if someone illegal owns a gun and wants to kill me I am required to sacrifice my life in the name of making guns illegal.

While there are many things I don't like about america the one thing they got right is gun rights. Just as you described its a place where you dont need to own a gun, a place where getting shot with a gun capable of shooting 100 bullets a minute is so incredibly rare it is virtually an impossibility. But a country where I have a right to own a gun and in the one in a million chance my life is ever threatened i have the means and the rights to preserve it.

Contrast that with the UK where simply carrying a screwdriver with you means you will go to jail just on the off chance you might choose to use it as a weapon.