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Originally Posted by Daniel_
Remind me again how allowing people to keep handguns at home makes them safer?  |
Guns in the hands of everyday civilians is the one thing that can keep populations from falling under total tyranny.
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Try reading the quotes of past patriots and defenders of liberties who describe why having a civilian population armed is so important. I tend to agree with people like Jefferson, Madison, Malcolm X and Gandhi on their views of guns. These quotes are enough reminders for me of how gun ownership actually keeps us safer despite unfortunate accidents like that of these two kids. It's seems illogical to me how some people can be so strongly for civil rights, yet are so against the one thing that can defend those rights.
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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest. -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power. -- Yoshimi Ishikawa, author of Japanese best-seller Strawberry Road
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When firearms go, all goes - we need them every hour. -- George Washington.
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With that being said, I think the parents should be held responsible if the child commits a crime or has an accident with the gun (like this child did), but not for simply leaving a gun in an un-secured container.