Medea
The Shadow Queen
This thread is for posting any of your political beliefs. Let's keep it civil. Since this is such a broad topic to cover, there may be many conversations going on all at once.
I'll tell you a little about my own political beliefs. I'm a liberal democrat, and I will DEFINITELY vote to re-elect President Obama, but I'm against my own party on a few issues. The biggest two are gun control and political "correctness".
I'll start the conversation on why I think gun control is wrong. Believe me, I tried to get several of my liberal friends to wake-up on this issue over the years, but I've had little success. Here's why gun control is a disaster:
1) If you take away people's guns, they cannot defend themselves against the government, corporations, or psycho killers.
2) Guns don't kill people. Psycho killers and insurance company death panels do. If you take away guns, people will still kill one another. I know, it sound CRAZY, right? Well, take your choice: poison, bombs, fire, knives, swords, fists....etc....etc... People killed each other long before we had guns, and will continue to do so even if they are taken away. If someone has a gun for protection it's actually more likely they WON'T be killed violently. More people are killed by car accidents every year than gun accidents in family homes, so maybe we should petition to take all cars off the streets, huh? Yeah, right. Maybe we should outlaw fast food, because that kills people too. Sorry, but blaming a gun for killing someone is like blaming pencils for bad hand writing. You can't say an inanimate object, in and of itself, is "dangerous".
3) Taking guns away from people will NOT stop crime, or even slow it down. This is the biggest myth of all. Why? BECAUSE CRIMINALS DO NOT BUY GUNS LEGALLY!!!! You have to register all of your firearms. Criminals by guns from underground, illegal weapons dealers, because if they have a felony record, they can't buy a gun! So, if you take away all registered firearms, the only people left that will have guns, aside from the military and police, will be criminals.
I will admit, however, some aspects of gun control could be useful. For instance, do we really need extended clips and drum magazines for personal protection? Those types of things are only useful for one thing: mass shootings. So I do think we should eliminate extended clips for civilian use. That's my two cents.
I'll tell you a little about my own political beliefs. I'm a liberal democrat, and I will DEFINITELY vote to re-elect President Obama, but I'm against my own party on a few issues. The biggest two are gun control and political "correctness".
I'll start the conversation on why I think gun control is wrong. Believe me, I tried to get several of my liberal friends to wake-up on this issue over the years, but I've had little success. Here's why gun control is a disaster:
1) If you take away people's guns, they cannot defend themselves against the government, corporations, or psycho killers.
2) Guns don't kill people. Psycho killers and insurance company death panels do. If you take away guns, people will still kill one another. I know, it sound CRAZY, right? Well, take your choice: poison, bombs, fire, knives, swords, fists....etc....etc... People killed each other long before we had guns, and will continue to do so even if they are taken away. If someone has a gun for protection it's actually more likely they WON'T be killed violently. More people are killed by car accidents every year than gun accidents in family homes, so maybe we should petition to take all cars off the streets, huh? Yeah, right. Maybe we should outlaw fast food, because that kills people too. Sorry, but blaming a gun for killing someone is like blaming pencils for bad hand writing. You can't say an inanimate object, in and of itself, is "dangerous".
3) Taking guns away from people will NOT stop crime, or even slow it down. This is the biggest myth of all. Why? BECAUSE CRIMINALS DO NOT BUY GUNS LEGALLY!!!! You have to register all of your firearms. Criminals by guns from underground, illegal weapons dealers, because if they have a felony record, they can't buy a gun! So, if you take away all registered firearms, the only people left that will have guns, aside from the military and police, will be criminals.
I will admit, however, some aspects of gun control could be useful. For instance, do we really need extended clips and drum magazines for personal protection? Those types of things are only useful for one thing: mass shootings. So I do think we should eliminate extended clips for civilian use. That's my two cents.