Guns Don't Kill People
Wouldn't it be great if we lived in a world where good people could come together and agree that we have evolved past the point of needing to own weaponry. Wouldn't it be great if we lived in a world that could acknowledge mental illness and lend a helping hand, rather than turning their heads because they've got their own shit to deal with.
I don't think we need guns. I don't think firing bullets should be regarded as sport. I don't think we need to kill anything to survive and prosper on this planet. I don't think I'm alone.
I think it's time we moved beyond the arguments, the left and right, the regulation, the control, and decide for ourselves, we don't need guns and ammunition in our lives. If we can't ensure these weapons will not fall into the wrong hands, then we shouldn't have them. If we can't be sure we won't one day snap under the pressure of these ever difficult times, then we shouldn't have them.
Guns don't kill people. People do...only, with guns...they can kill many more.There's a simple fact we are all faced with. We are all human. We are all "people".
How many events will it take? How many lives lost?
How many of you defend the right to bear arms simply because your father did, and his father before him? How many of you have grown up defending the right, without ever even lending a thought to the type of world we would live in if there were no guns?
We dream of a better world. Let's stand up and build it together. Have the courage in your heart to change the conditioning in your mind. We are so much better than this.
I lost a lens in my rose colored glasses yesterday. Nothing compared to the loss the entire world is feeling right now, let alone all the families who lives have permanently changed. The potential of brothers and sisters we will never see realized. Risk vs Reward. Do you think it worth it?
Please, for the love of all that is good and worthy in this world...lay down your weapons.
I don't think we need guns. I don't think firing bullets should be regarded as sport. I don't think we need to kill anything to survive and prosper on this planet. I don't think I'm alone.
I think it's time we moved beyond the arguments, the left and right, the regulation, the control, and decide for ourselves, we don't need guns and ammunition in our lives. If we can't ensure these weapons will not fall into the wrong hands, then we shouldn't have them. If we can't be sure we won't one day snap under the pressure of these ever difficult times, then we shouldn't have them.
Guns don't kill people. People do...only, with guns...they can kill many more.There's a simple fact we are all faced with. We are all human. We are all "people".
How many events will it take? How many lives lost?
How many of you defend the right to bear arms simply because your father did, and his father before him? How many of you have grown up defending the right, without ever even lending a thought to the type of world we would live in if there were no guns?
We dream of a better world. Let's stand up and build it together. Have the courage in your heart to change the conditioning in your mind. We are so much better than this.
I lost a lens in my rose colored glasses yesterday. Nothing compared to the loss the entire world is feeling right now, let alone all the families who lives have permanently changed. The potential of brothers and sisters we will never see realized. Risk vs Reward. Do you think it worth it?
Please, for the love of all that is good and worthy in this world...lay down your weapons.
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And I don't know what the difference is here in Canada - but I rarely worry that the person next to me in the supermarket line is "packing heat". You cannot just walk around carrying a concealed weapon here - you need a permit (Authorization to Carry I believe and you have to prove it is necessary for self defense - rarely approved.) My husband is a cop, and even he has to leave his weapon locked up at the police station. He can only have it on his person when in uniform.
We also have legal firearm storage laws - you cannot just keep a gun in your bedside table drawer. The ammunition is kept separate.
Since I think it unlikely that we can get rid of all the guns already out there (who's gonna go collect them? and, hhmmmm..irony: will they be armed? since they are going to collect guns from bad people.) The best we can do for now is make better laws for control. Sure, it's a band-aid, but all you got now is gaping wounds. And all you have to do is look at the statistics of deaths by gun around the world: USA is one of the highest and the countries with more are those ravaged by civil wars and rebels. USA has over 9,000!!! While Canada, with stricter laws has 144 (still too many).
No, we don't really needs guns. But since we do in fact have so so many of them: I think the first step is better control of them, until we can find a way to actually eradicate them from our world.
Now, i do not fear criminals or strangers, or people i do not know. That for the most part is media hype and the networks’ and hollywood’s way of increasing ratings and selling movie tickets with scintillating crime stories that strike fear in our hearts…they’re predictable…my favorite is Lifetime…usually the first friendly and affable white male who shows up on the screen will be the mass murderer, molester, rapist, or adulterer…it’s an easy sell and they do get one thing right… you are more likely to be killed by somebody you know than a stranger. In fact, you are more likely to be robbed by somebody you know and i am pretty sure that goes for rape, too. so, the gun argument for self-protection is rather silly...
isn't it bad enough that there are speed traps, checkpoints, seat belt laws?...isn't it bad enough that a cop has the right to pull you over if your taillight is out? and how about the tsa? how about the local yokel zoning officer who cites you for not getting a permit to replace a rotting board on your front porch or that whacky neighbor who calls the police because you are playing wagner on a sunday afternoon? all of these folks have the power or want the power to coerce you into doing what they want...
now, sadly, throughout history, once you surrender your right (or your right is taken away) to defend your freedom, somebody is going to take advantage of you, NOT ILLEGALLY...but legally...slavery was legal and so were the nuremberg laws...ironically, for the most part, those who advocate that we get rid of our guns (from my experience at least and maybe that’s due to the people i hang out with...intellectuals, teachers, and artists...poets included)are the first people tyrants look for to load into the boxcars to ship off to siberia, dachau, or some killing field...
naively people say, oh that will never happen in america, not here beneath the red white and blue...well, no one thought it would happen in germany either, the country that produced the likes of goethe and kant...our founding fathers were very concerned with the balance of power and especially on checks on governmental power...they knew the abuses of freedom were far more easy to bear, far more easily defended against, than the abuses of power