Since Guns Protect Families, Why Do Democrats Want To Ban Them?

Question

Guns were used at least a million times last year for self-defense.

The Media Assault on the Second Amendment
"more than 2.5 million people use a gun in self defense each year"
http://www.cultureandmediainstitute.org/eoc/2007/pdf/eoc-20070827.pdf

Democrats are trying to restore a ban on guns.
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/06-6911.pdf

Answer 1

Its all about power!!
The ability to control the masses(/populace/ dimwitted self absorbed public )is much more difficult- if the ":people" get angry,refuse to comply with the new "rules/edits" .
(the USA exists because colonists recognized that "subjects of the crown" was a life of compliance to the whims of the king).One could only achieve if "allowed "to do so.
Those (politicians) bent on IMPOSING THEIR visions, beliefs to achieve a "perfect/humane society or "World harmony" believe that the masses can be "handled" !!....
...Why risk death from some cantankerous resident or dissident group that refuses to comply with "x" ?? mere civilians must be constrained and removing all those dangerous firearms will "help" protect society"/save lives/save the "children>>>>'etc.) More lives are lost in traffic accidents yearly than the annual death by firearms, or trhe military deaths in Afghanistan/Iraq.

What is forgotten in all these arguments (guns kill/increase violence) is simply that.... The ability to kill and the decision to do so (whether its directed towards a person ,group, government) is not about whether a human has a weapon/gun. Lethal force has been used by man since the dawn of time. Power,lust and greed often produce irrational humans who to kill to achieve their desire/goal. They- in time -are eliminated and the survivors again seek to exist as neighbors who tolerate/accept the "others" strange ways/or different beliefs".
Dems want to manage people and secure for themselves (the elite) a lucrative and powerful position in "life". They are in their mind the "greater good"/dissidents must be labled/shamed and restricted Control is power!

Answer 2

It doesn't matter, both want to cancel programs that help the needy and insulate the wealthy from doing anything to help. Both want to spend 5 Trillion on the military and not a penny on education or health. It'll be a sad day for America if he gets elected. That would be the start of a class war. How could some have so much money and not cough up 3% more to save the country? We are at the lowest tax rate since the 1950's and they want more. Greed is ugly.

Answer 3

I actually know quite a few Democrats who are gun owners, so adamantlly supportive of the 2nd ammendment that you'd think they were Republican or Libertarian.

Generally speaking, I think it's because of the common misconception that criminals will follow the law. Banning guns won't keep guns out of criminal hands. It just means that civilians who would use the weapon lawfully won't be armed, only criminals. Living in California, we still have the assault weapons ban. Plenty of people still get lit up by an uzi or an AK. Especially here in southern california.

I can think of plenty of republicans who want to take our guns away too, some of them running for president. Take a look at their gun records, not their NRA grade. Ask Giulliani how he feels about handguns in NYC.

So, I'm sure that if the average citizen can figure out that criminals will always be armed regardless of law, politicians have figured it out too. So why exactly would any politician deny us the right to self defense?

Ask a history book what happenned to the Armenians when Turkey banned guns, or what happenned to the jews when Germany banned guns. Or... political dissidents in China when China banned guns.

Another point... Australia banned firearms earlier this year. Gun crime went... Oh my goodness, UP! Armed robbery went up 44 percent, gun homicides in total went up a whopping 300 percent. No gun violence statistics went down. I wonder if Australian politicians are still confused about why it worked out that way.

Answer 4

Passing insane laws is what politicians do when they want to be seen to be doing something.

Two examples from Britain
Example 1 - after the police gave a firearms licence to a known nutter, said nutter shot 11 people dead. Rather than address the issue of what idiot gave him a licence, the government banned self-loading rifles so that they could be seen to be doing something.
Example 2 - after the police gave a firearms licence to a known nutter, said nutter shot dead a schoolfull of children. Rather than address the issue of what idiot gave him a licence, the government banned pistols so that they could be seen to be doing something.

This had no effect on crime. In fact crime with guns has risen inexorably ever since. The criminals use new guns manufacured after the ban and guns that have never ever been legal.

Basically, the Democrats want to do offer the illusion of security. They want to grab headlines. When somebody is shot with an illegal gun, they just throw their hands up in the air and say "it's a criminal - we did our best". Banning things never works - look at cocaine which is widely available despite posession meriting a jail sentence or the death sentence in many countries.

Who was it said "those that give up essential rights and freedoms for the promise of temprorary security deserve neither". Could it possibly have been one of the founding fathers of the US?

Answer 5

It's all about power and control. The second ammendment does not just give you the right to defend yourself or your family. It gives you the right to defend yourself if we are attacked by a foreign enemy and it gives you the right to control the government and not the other way around.

Democrats want to control you and make sure you have no power to do anything about it, while at the same time selling the deception that they are "for the people".

If we allow them to chip away at these rights we all lose as Americans.
By the way, I also know some Democrats that have guns and believe in the right to use them to defend themselves. They are mostly African Americans. For instance one of the teachers I work with is a former PO and she is black, a democrat and she sleeps with a glock next to her bed.

Answer 6

This business about using guns for "self defence" is a crock of sh!t. And the general misinterpretation of the Second Ammendment is akin to the way Muslims misinterpret the Koran!

Guns are not dangerous, it's only the idiot with his finger on the trigger!

Answer 7

Guns are their biggest obstacle to social take over...our founding fathers saw this and made the right to own guns second only to the right to free speech....they know that over a hundred million people with guns is one heck of an army...and they intend to do something about that.

Answer 8

You answered your own question: "guns protect families"

Walking the streets of New York where liberals rule and gun ownership is essentially illegal is terrifying. Yet I know that I am perfectly safe walking the streets of Cheyenne WY where half of the vehicles are pickups with rifles mounted in the back window, and the folks have a definite conservative bias.

Answer 9

Most advanced societies dont carry guns? what country are you talking about? look around, most countries have ak47s floating around everywhere.
Democrats want to ban them because they think guns hurt people. Baseball bats hurt people too, but no one wants to ban that.
They think it because of poor logic.
And to the guy with the Chris rock quote.....
What if someone breaks into your house and you have to shoot multiple shots? (you would)
You would want more than one bullet.

Answer 10

Yes, Democrats are anti-family

Their selfish behavior towards respecting gun rights is deplorable

Their contempt for the 2nd Amendment is reprehensible