Dem Rep. David Cicilline In House Hearing: ‘Spare Me The Bullshit About Constitutional Rights’

I’ve never said I. In favor of leaving the gun situation as is. We have the 2nd Amendment here which the UK does not. That alone will prevent the elimination of gun ownership. Polls shows the 2nd will never go away. So it’s a question of what to do that’s properly in line with the 2nd while elongating problems created by criminals and whackos. If guns didn’t exist in a lot of cases those folks would use another method. What is their method of choice in the UK? Sportsman’s own guns in the UK. What are the rules about that? Personally I own no guns even though I do have a carry permit (a story for another day). @room101

@jackjjackson Apparently, polls show that approx 80% of Americans want meaningful gun ownership restrictions. Look, I know that it's easy for me as an outsider to say "get all guns off your streets", I know that your gun culture is totally alien to my way of thinking and living. I simply cannot comprehend living in a country where active shooter drills are attended by anybody not going into a conflict zone of some kind. Out of everybody that I know I'm the only civilian that has undergone such training. Long may it stay that way.

I was talking to a Spanish friend on Friday about this issue, he came up with a suggestion that may have some merit. Tax all ammo so that it becomes prohibitively expensive. That way, the pro 2nd A contingent keep their guns but they become little more than rather perverse wall art.

@jackjjackson An illustration of the difference between Europe and America on the gun issue.
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@sunsporter1649 224 "knife" homocides multiplied five (in order to give a reasonable comparison by population size) = 1,120

Compared to almost 21,000 gun deaths (excluding suicides) in the USA so far this year.

https://www.thetrace.org/2021/12/gun-violence-data-stats-2021/

Guess the mantle of homicidal maniacs falls squarely on the shoulders of the good ol' U S of A!

@room101 LOL, 1 in 290,000 will be assaulted in the UK, as opposes to 1 in 1,400,000 in the USA, play with the numbers all you wish

@sunsporter1649 Guess you missed the part that we're only six months into this year huh?

The UK figure is for all of 2021, the USA figure is for 2022 thus far!

@Roadsterrider The 2nd Amendment was established to make sure all the other Amendments written at the time could be defended

Excellent point. Would make it difficult for totalitarian wannabes.

@jackjjackson is that a threat Jack?😱 How very American of you😂😂😂

@sunsporter1649 If I ever decide to live somewhere populated by bears then maybe I'll get myself a suitable means of protection.

How many times has the average gun fetishist in America been confronted by a bear?

@room101

@soar2newhighs after all, it's not going away!

@Changeisgonnacome Arms sales and the benefits derived, from military systems to the basic hand gun is a money making proposition. The buyers, seller and users all are complicit in those who die because of them.

@sunsporter1649 you shouldn't brag about it screw up.

@whowasthatmaskedman You mean like the fine job the left-wing nut-job marxists are doing in chicago?

@sunsporter1649 Yes.. That..

@BohemianBabe hfhjgnm. Jhgu.
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@Stereoguy not yet

@exchrist So when you gonna get off your duff and propose just such an amendment and put it up for a vote of the people?

@sunsporter1649 yes thats why it works i wonder if itll go national?