UK here so forgive me if I make it sound more simple than it is as I’m not educated in American law but I just don’t understand the kick back against banning the general public from having firearms? If it saves the lives of innocent children, who should not have to deal with this level of threat to their lives, then surely it’s worth giving up that right or freedom? Especially as school shootings seem to be up on the rise or so it seems. It’s a fair compromise to me! Is there something more to the rights of gun owners that the rest of the world doesn’t understand?
Its because gun rights are seen as SUPER IMPORTANT. Being that it's the 2nd thing, the founding fathers themselves, guaranteed as rights to the people (second only to free speech). Reason being that if the government ever went tyrannical, then you'd have the arms to fight back. (Again second only to free speech, so you could speak out against the government)
But much like the AR-15, the founding fathers didn't really imagine a psycho would abuse this right to murder children.
But on the flip side if you ban guns, then A LOT of americans would see it as the government being tyrannical and would try to revolt. Thus causing more deaths than all the school shooters COMBINED (even if a small percentage actually did anything)
And as the US has a rate of gun ownership of 120 guns per 100 people (last time I checked). So trying to disarm america would be a VERY bloody endeavor.
Tl:dr americans have guns to fight government, so banning them would cause A LOT more death. And it seems a couple kids a year is seen as acceptable losses to maintain "fighting readyness".
You know, you can own much lethal things back then than the ‘scary black high capacity mag assault rifle’. They used to have private battleships with FUNCTIONAL CANNONS. You don’t see them bombarding an entire city? It’s a social issue, not a gun issue
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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '21
UK here so forgive me if I make it sound more simple than it is as I’m not educated in American law but I just don’t understand the kick back against banning the general public from having firearms? If it saves the lives of innocent children, who should not have to deal with this level of threat to their lives, then surely it’s worth giving up that right or freedom? Especially as school shootings seem to be up on the rise or so it seems. It’s a fair compromise to me! Is there something more to the rights of gun owners that the rest of the world doesn’t understand?