Jon Stewart: The NRA has us at the intersection of ‘open carry’ and ‘stand your ground’

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42. doxydad

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I have tried to understand the idea you all see to have problem with over there - weapons all over the place - massacres where people is murdering at random - or someone who accidental shoot another with a gun - or them self trying to clean a gun - but in all this I have tried my best to grasp it all - and have possible fired on a fee neones of brain stuff in the proses - but I at a loss - I just do not understand the american 2 amendment - Even that I have been reading about it for a long time - and understood the principality around it all - mostly because the newborn US had no regular army - and it was up to each State to make sure each state was able to fend off enemies - that be indians who wanted their land back - or people royal to the UK king - or the british colonies in what is today Canada - but I have yet to grasp why ordinary people with no absolutely need for weapon at all have this idea that they have as much weapon as possible in their house - and not just ordinary weapon - who can be used in hunting (many people have hunting as a hobby, and therefore a weapon or two in the house - and is always after the best next thing) but high powered weapons who have no use what so ever in a hunting situation - but is used by military all over the world - to kill people who are their enemies...

And then we have this "gentlemen" who is walking around in shopping malls - target is one of the few ones who have been targeted for some reason by the gun "Lovers" and who surly are doing it because they scare people who have not weapons - and who is thinking about a shopping mall, or a store as a safe place to be..... To me it sounds like something out of a bad novel by Stephen King...

What it is all about? Why all this bravado about weapons, and the need for having all this weapons - because they believe that everyone is an target for their weapons - not to say the story told by some media outlets about the government wanting to take away their weapons - because they want to impose a regime who is way from US - at least in the idea who is being told to them - and what they are telling them self all the time...

In some way - I think I am lucky who live in a country - who do not have 2 amendment - who do not have a powerfully weapon lobby group like NRA - and who also have some of the worlds strictest laws when it come to weapon use... It is not perfect - a few years ago we had a lone wolf who tried to blow up our government offices, and killed 80 persons - of them 77 on a youth camp outside of our capital... He is now serving a sentence of 21 year in prison - plus possible been kept in prison for as long as it is seen necessary for keeping him there... But it is very seldom for this to happened in our country - I think it was the first of the kind since WW2 in our country - almost 70 year... And that in a country who in fact have a lot of weapon in private hands - everything from pepole who are member of gun clubs - and is shooting at targets on a field - to pepole who hunt regulary - not to say peppole of our military forces who for many reasons is eligble to having weapons in their home - a nessesarity if war was ever to break out - even if the posiblity of that happening is yet to be determined.. untill 22 july 2011 I doubt anyone in the public had any idea about blowing up the government offices - not to say killing more than 80 pepole becouse of who they was.... And I suspect it would be a long time before anything like him wil ever be representive for anything here too....

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