Abby dear, I believe that Americans should come first. I believe in the right to bear arms and I believe in harst and swift punishment for those who intentionally do harm to others. I believe people should be able to walk down any street at any time without fear. I believe people should be able to worship as they wish as long as it does not negatively effect the rights of others. I believe in the seperation of church and state. I believe lobbying as it's done on Capitol Hill should be a crime punishable by law. I believe prison terms for any politician who commits a crime against the taxpayers of this country should receive a jail sentence that is double the norm and it should be served not in a country club prison but in the same prisons the grneral population gets sent to. I also believe that I am one of the very few if any who share my views. Mercy should be reserved to those who show it others.
2007-05-14 00:33:30 · 2 answers · asked by david r 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
yes ok then
2007-05-14 00:42:57 · answer #1 · answered by keight_beight 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the right to bear harms can have only one consequence and that is violence. Every single day, there are crimes involving guns in the US. Teenagers and guns, a lethal combination, teenagers and alcohol and guns, an even more lethal combination.
I live in a country with strict gun control, and even though we have crime here, it is well under the norm. Unfortunately, we have an American professor here in Canada who advises on policy and cooks his statistics to indicate guns are ok. They are not. Violence brings on only more violence. The days of the Ok Corral are over and it's time for a more civilized society.
Unless, of course, you want to have a society of people in jail, and people employed by the jail, and that will be the extent of the community. That is by the way already happening in some communities in America.
2007-05-17 08:15:07 · answer #2 · answered by older and wiser 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋