Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Xpost: Austrailian gun control... [View all]Starboard Tack
(11,181 posts)That is your fantasy. I have zero objection to people defending their homes with firearms. My only issue is with the irrational behavior of those who feel a need to carry those guns around in public. Period.
That includes civilians, be they criminals or not, and LE not involved in special operations or on special duty that calls for them to be armed.
Nobody should be walking around with a gun without a damned good reason.
Got it now?
That's how the rest of the industrialized world operates and the results can be seen in the statistics. The folk who want to carry everywhere are pushing the envelope, which will eventually burst, and when it does the changes will probably so draconian that normal law abiding gun owners who sensibly secure their firearms at home and transport them safely to ranges and meets, or to hunt, will suffer for the actions of those who are only happy if they can carry their guns to the marketplace. The thought that being armed during a visit to Walmart or a bar or restaurant or church is going to make the world a safer, or in any way better place is absurd.
Is it possible that you do not see this as a sign of a failed society? Is that the kind of world you are happy in, where every Tom, Dick and Harriet who feels like it can walk around with a loaded firearm. If so, that doesn't sound anything like freedom to me, but rather a sense of resignation that we live in a world that is so fucked up so we might as well carry guns, just in case.