(02-22-2018, 09:22 AM)TrivialPursuit Wrote:

(02-22-2018, 12:13 AM)lastonealive Wrote: A car also has a purpose that isnt killing.

I don't think you understand how deeply ingrained gun ownership is in the United States.

Each one of us over here, as Americans, feel a deep connection to our founding fathers. Whether our family lines were even in this country in that time period is irrelevant.

They set the groundwork for what became the most powerful country of the modern era -  and they took their country away from the most powerful military force on the planet at the time. True, the British were involved in other wars and didn't have the resources to properly fight the revolution, but regardless, the Americans took it away.. because they were armed. If they didn't have guns and cannons they never would have accomplished a thing. They knew that it was important, as a nation of FREE men, to allow the common man access to guns, not just guns for hunting or self-defense, guns for making war upon the government if necessary.

Now we have laws to keep crazy people from getting them - and sometimes that system fails us. Instead of taking away the guns or the rights of LAW-ABIDING Americans, let's try much harder to enforce the laws we have. Because until that happens, new gun control measures won't do a thing anyway.