Re: Is gun ownership still a good idea?

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On 3/14/05, PV wrote:
> I heard these arguments against guns on another message
> board. They seem logical to me.
> "Keeping and using arms just keeps political brawls going.
> Look at most of Africa for example. They do just what you
> say--they fight to protect their homes, families, land,
> whatever. But it never gets settled and there's perpetual
> slaughter and unrest. It keeps Care and Unicef, etc. very
> busy.
>
> "If America has experienced relative peace, as has the rest
> of the democratic world, it is because they have put the
> guns down and have set up a system for everyone to address
> and resolve problems in a fair and civilized way. It's
> called creating checks and balances; establishing balance
> of power. And our liberty, dear fellow, is not derived from
> having a bigger gun with more bells and whistles. Our
> liberty is in law . We settle our disputes in a civilized
> way on the courtroom floor or the legislative floor--but we
> are smart enough to leave the guns out of it.
>
> "As soon as you pick up the gun instead, well--might as
> well move to Mogadishu where you'll fit right in. Then you
> too can keep the need for relief organizations going, and
> expect you and yours to live a much shorter lifespan with
> nothing resolved politically."
>
> "Natural rights are something that you have because you are
> a human being. I don't think that there is a natural right
> to bear arms.
>
> " 'It is interesting to note that the right to arms (either
> linked or divorced from duty in a militia) formed no part
> of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man
> promulgated by revolutionary France in 1789, and that it
> forms no part of the United Nation's Universal Declaration
> of Human Rights or the European Convention for the
> Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
> today.'(The Militia and the Right to Arms or How The Second
> Amendment Fell Silent, chapter 7 endnote 34)
>
> "So the French, the UN, and the European Convention haven't
> recognized that a right to bear arms exists."
> http://p078.ezboard.com/fguncontrol4778frm18
>
> 200 years ago people had muskets and it was hard to mass
> murder people with those. But now people have machine guns
> because the AWB was repealed so you have problems with mass
> murder. Times have changed.

People don't have machine guns because the AWB was repealed,
machine guns are illegal without a permit only the government
can give. And what a beautiful government it is becoming.

Move to Europe you ignorant fool. Live among all the peaceful
individuals there. Planting flowers and touching yourself.