Tuesday, November 3, 2009
This Will keep the king of england out of my face(1)
The second amendment (the right to bare arms) is by far my favorite amendment about baring arms. I decided to write a piece about gun rights after reading yet another blog about gun rights (that one being about guns in console, mine about concealed carry gun control). I will start off reinforcing the stereotypical right wing approach if you illegalize it the people who want guns bad enough will get them. This belief stands on a horrible foundation though. To say that just because people will do it no matter what the law says is quite moronic, if this were the case then why not legalize rape, murder, and theft (do you hear that pro choice’s )they will be done by a good deal of the population why not make them all legal. Of course you or I would never say these things, the point of this article it to persuade all who reads it that gun ownership (in my case concealed carry ) different from though monstrous deeds. (I’m sure my readers have all heard about 1, 2, or several people who abused the privilege of concealed carry, my answer to that is we've all also heard the story of the criminal who abused the privilege of not having constant government watch).This is not an easy topic to discuss there are so many factors that go into leading me into my conclusion. A blanket approach to my conclusion is concealed carry is self-evident (does a bear not use every weapon he can to defend himself when its life or the life of its cub is in danger there’s not some leader bear saying clip your claws you might hurt someone) if everyone had a concealed weapon everyone would be able to defend them self to the fullest extent right (What happened at Columbine again? v.a tech?). The main support for my belief is that the good strongly outweighs the bad, not that everyone is good (commie's)or everyone is bad.(I have heard that only police officers should be able to conceal carry a weapon, Right police officers have never abused this privilege). As long as that is so anything but concealed carry makes no sense, there will all ways be a few bad people, and there will always be a lot more good people to crush the bad.I have also heard that well there could be lots of accidents with the guns. It is a good concern I must say but from my research the gun accident rate is so mathematically insignificant it should not be a main argument in the outlaw of conceal carry. There are already a lot of government safety regulations i.e. the safety button (you know the thing that the gov't ordered to put on guns, anything the fat cats can do to get in the way of the gun owner and him killing something tsk tsk).It is like saying we must outlaw knifes because a few people cut themselves while cooking, or making a sandwich or what have you.Probably the main point I should bring up is no state to the best of my knowledge gives conceal carry rights easily, they have to be earned, though many classes, and background checks and mental evaluations(and the prices are astronomical in most cases). With all this in mind if your qualified to have a conceal carry license your qualified to be a polices officer, and just because the stars don't point you in the direction of becoming a police officer doesn’t mean you should not be able to have a concealed carry license. As long as all these requirements are meet who should stop someone from carrying a gun.I like to end this piece with a quote from the "Motor City Madman". "Only a coward would want less good guys on the streets with guns.", and "Cat Scratch Fever"
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Jake, I totally understand your logic here...also I think this blog completely shows how complicated these issues are.
ReplyDeleteYou are going to enjoy ENGL 111.