Expect the gun control debate in America to really get hot over the next 12 months as Beto O’Rourke runs for governor of Texas. O’Rourke said, when running for president in 2019, “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47!”
And it’s entirely time for this debate. America has just a bit more than 4 percent of the world’s population, but, with more guns than people in our country, we have more than 40 percent of all the guns in civilian hands in the world.
Specifically, as a Swiss-based research group found, there are “approximately 857 million civilian-held firearms in the world’s 230 countries and territories” and, as ABC News points out, in America there are “over 393 million firearms in civilian possession” as of 2017. About ten million more have been sold in the US since then: we are the only nation in the world with more guns than people.
When asked recently if Beto O’Rourke stands by his position that, at […]
The second amendment is simply one sentence. In it, the right to bear arms is tied to the need for militias, not self defense or hunting. Militias have been nearly outlawed since 1903, having been replaced by the National Guard. I cannot begin to understand the evolution of gun rights in this country, but it is very clear that gun rights are a failed social experiment, with far more harm than good.I believe that the only answer to this dilemma is to repeal the second amendment and seriously restrict all gun ownership. The likelihood of this happening is small, but this is a necessary step for social progression. Failure to do this may result in a 2nd civil war and hopeless chaos.
Well said. And in fact, even in the ‘wild west,’ public display of guns was often illegal in towns. The current idiocy is modern. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gun-control-old-west-180968013/
We should be using the airlines guidelines for weapons as our guidelines for weapons everywhere. That is, just as there are no guns allowed on airplanes no guns should be allowed in public.