This is kinda starting to scare me.
I live in Sydney Australia and in a pretty bad part of town, you will 'occasionaly' hear gunshots but its not common. That said im 24 i grew up doing all the things i proberly shouldnt have, i joined gangs, i hung out with thieves, i was a little brat...
I have NEVER SEEN a hangun... Ill just repeat that NEVER...
Im happy to say that, now considering i grew up this way im pretty sure if i had lived in America i would not only have seen one i would be packing about three right now.
Im glad as hell we have gun restrictions over here, it means I only have to deal with knives rather than firearms. Thats a big happy smile on my dial when i walk around at night. Yeah if you want to hurt me you will try anyway but trust me its a lot easyer for me to defend when im not worried about being shot as well as stabbed.
I hate to say this and im sure some will take offence but i view guns as cowardly, i view people who carry them as being people who want to feel like they can take a life at any second. People who want to defend themselfs and there loved ones learn to fight and learn to look out for and avoid potencial danger situations. They dont simply 'pack heat' to even the score.
For Metal Fist
"This gun control crap is just the way in which the Socialists make their first move to make one totally dependent on the Gov't."
* Thats one of the most ammazing peices of paranoia ive ever heard.
"Their control over you is their concern and in Great Britain and Australia it seems to have worked."
*Im an Australian, now how exactly do view the govement as 'controlling' me due to my lack of firearms? Please clarify that statement, again its pure paranoia. Mind telling me who this 'Their' is that your refering to? Which international mind controling govenment body would this be?
"They think that to be secure one must give up ones freedoms"
*Again totaly paranoid and devoid of fact, what did you call freedom before guns where invented? Gunless freedom?
"My freedom is my security, especially if owning firearms is part of that."
* Thank you for proving my point about many gun owners being cowards, by your own admision your only interested in your personal security if owning a gun is part of it.
"Remember, gun control is the ability to hit your target, even when it's running from you."
* Shooting a man fleeing from you shows about as much 'control' as the average street junkie. Again cowardly act.
That was not meant for everyone only metal fist, it angers me when i think of paranoid lunatics who believe they have the god given right to bare firearms becouse they cant be bothered to learn to fight the hard way.
All those others who just want a gun for there own protection in there home i can understand. My real gripe is with people carrying them around in public and this idea that we should all have a right to carry handguns.
Im enjoying reading this though there has been some great points put forward from both camps
Up and down, forward and backward, left and right, its all the same. All of this is done with the mind, not externaly.
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