N. B. Please do not shoot the messenger for this post .
"Shoot the messenger!" [That's a nice pun!]
Never, this is a cultural difference.
As much as I love and respect you, our brothers and sisters to the north, you were not raised with a 2nd amendmend.
An absolute God given right, NOT to have any government stick it's greedy, facist, socialistic, communist face in your private business.
When a person
is raised generation after generation without that predicament, they tend to get more than a little defensive about their human rights.
If we as Christians cannot rely on God to protect us then we become Christians stemmed in fear and we are told that fear comes from satan .
Fear? What fear?
This isn't about fear, it is about my God given right to keep and to bear any method of protection I see fit to carry.
Any human being should have a right to carry a knife, or to pick up a stick to peer into a hole with, or to throw a rock at someone who has invaded their home.
I'm not afraid of getting robbed, I just happen to insist, that "IF" someone attempts to rob me, or harm my family, that I have the "right" to throw something at them.
At least here we are not allowed to own a gun and the ordinary guy does not walk around with a gun .
I've been carrying a gun since I was a kid.
My kids carry guns. My kids have owned and carried guns since they were 5 and 6 years old?
No one has ever been hurt.
I have a rifle, (.270) and a 12 gauge in the back window of my truck in the gun rack.
I have a .25 semi auto in the glove box, and I seldom go anywhere without a Ruger 9.mm in the holster on my lower back.
That's just the way I am. Me and tens of thousands of other people who grew up with no fear of guns or freedoms.
I have had to pop a smart mouth drunk in the nose a time or two in my life, but pulling my gun, has never crossed my mind in any situation. No more than pulling out the knife I carry on my hip.
If the guy beats me up, oh well.
Guess I got beat up. (Wouldn't be the 1st time!)
I think your gun laws need to be tightened.
Honestly, I don't know how they could be tighter????
Felons CAN NOT! own a firearm. Dope dealers, perverts, rapists, people who have EVER at ANY TIME EVER had a firearm conviction, can never own a gun again as long as they live.
I could go on and on.
It is illegal to carry a gun into a court, any place that sells booze, schools, police stations, you arent allowed to point guns at people....etc...etc...etc..
But somehow, even with all of the laws, people still manage to kill and to hurt one another.
Go figure.
2nd amendment: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
I like it.
Simple,
to the point,...
easy to remember.