Chris T: Tried to rep you. but can't as a have to spread it around.. I do agree with your last two posts though.
Punky: I personally don't think 90% of people who own guns would ever use them in anger against another person, but why make things easier for the 10% that would? A friend of mine has experience of guns first hand. Her dad was licenced (in this country) to hold a shotgun. She got home one day to find her dad pointing the (apparently loaded) shotgun in her face and threatening to kill her.
We also seem to increasingly be suffering from a "gang" culture, and in some areas, it's increasingly normal for a young kid to go into a late night shop, point a gun at the shopkeeper and demand all his/her money.
Now, I am not saying that this applies to America or Canada (I suspect it applies to parts of both, but don't really know enough to be sure), and I am not saying banning guns would stop the supply of guns to these people. I am saying that banning guns would restrict the supply of guns to these people though.
Guns may not kill people, but they do enable a person who otherwise may not be able, to kill someone.
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Originally Posted by Chris T
<snip>When you take a quote, or the entire amendment, which was written specifically to address the threat of invasion, and try to make it into a charter to own a lethal weapon for any of the other reasons above - reasons that Jefferson never mentioned - then you are 'twisting' (your words) what Jefferson said to make it fit your belief.
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Maybe, seeing as America has armed forces that are supposedly very capable, it is time to repeal that part of the constitution. Not that this will ever happen though.