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In reply to the discussion: The wailing on the 911 call looks bad for Zimmerman [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)Of the states with CCW ask for anything more than a criminal background check. Some would say asking them to fulfill some sort of mental health requirement would be an intrusion into freedom of thought. But we let the media Goebbels intrude there everyday to get our emotions riled up, like Zimmerman was.
But as far as I know, the defenders of the second really do want the sale, possession and use of firearms to be exactly as it was in the days it was set to paper. Just a matter of commerce, like buying a screwdriver. Their argument is always set that way, 'guns don't kill people, people kill people.' No shit, Sherlock, I haven't heard of any bears in the woods shooting people, not yet, anyway.
The example is brought up that a person could kill another with something else, a hammer, a kitchen knife, an axe, whatever. But those tools have more than one function, guns have no other purpose but to kill. Honestly, do you saw wood with gunfire?
I don't want a society where every action a person does is circumspect to some political consensus of who is and isn't competent, etc. But IMHO, the ALEC push to have these laws enacted in every state, and their fear mongering meme, Obama is coming for your guns! is really about preparing for violent revolution, which will open to the door to outright strongman fascists. They've played Americans like a fiddle.