I have an anti-gun acquaintance who likes to breathlessly say that "nobody is trying to take your guns!". In the next breath he'll talk about getting rid of semi-auto rifles, etc. I called him out on it yesterday when I said that the President himself held up the Australian gun control approach as the model for our country. The silence was deafening.VMI77 wrote:Wait, that can't be true, because the antis keep saying nobody wants to take our guns.....they're just for "reasonable" laws, like background checks and registration. Over and over I've heard that Obama doesn't want to take our guns. Someone must be trying to smear the guy.
The Aussies don't understand our culture, I'm not surprised. Even back to the ratification of the Constitution it was acknowledged that the right for private citizens to keep and bear arms was almost completely unparalleled across the world. I can point out until I'm blue in the face how what "works" in the UK and Australia does not and could not work here for any number of factors. I feel like I'm shoveling sand into the ocean anymore.