Originally posted by Park_Ranger:
...but most of you guys are against colt in the first place for going along with a government that your country elected. it's nice to be an individual and say if the government ever tried to take my guns away they would never even get close, but a corporation is bound by laws. you want to change the gun laws, you guys have gotta elect the right people, unfortunatly the states has only got 2 parties to elect, but its YOUR system, YOU are the people who can change it. if you wonder why a vast majority of people in your country support anti-gun laws, i'll tell you from my perspective in canada, the US is viewed as distasteful in the fact that i love firearms, i think everyone should be able to own them, but there is no reason for anyone to own a automatic weapon, if they arn't part of a government agency...
Park Ranger,
That is why you are a Canadian Citizen and not a US Citizen. Pretty much, we have told royalty to go jump in the lake and drown. Our country was founded on the basis of fundamental human freedoms.
The constitution is a restriction on Government, not on people. The founding fathers rightfully saw a Federalized Government and a Standing Army a threat to individual liberty. Liberty is viewed as more important than feeling safe, because if you are not free, you aren't safe anyway.
Certainly for the sole reason that the Government *DOES* own weapons of mass destruction, rockets, missiles, howitzers, tanks, automatic weapons, that its citizenry *MUST* have that same access to those weapons.
If the government can not trust its people, then the people shall not trust its government. We are supposed to be one in the same. These are fundamental issues about human rights, presumption of innocence, property ownership, self determination, etc. There should not be a privledged ruling class.
The same applies to everything. If it can be said I can't have an automatic weapon, then it can be said I can't own X car, or X house, or X computer, or X property for whatever X reason, or be of X color or X religion. The minute that a certain class of people can say you can't have X or be X because we say so, that is the moment you are subjegated and have lost your self determination and the persuit of life and liberty.
Yet that is exactly what is supposed to make this country so great, and that is the exact reason why all the other "socialized" countries of the world pay more taxes and have a lower standard of living.
So, you may not agree with it because you answer to the English Monarchy, but at least if you are going to talk about the U.S., its laws, and your opinion that you think we should or shouldn't do here, at least have a foundation of its history...
[This message has been edited by Gun Nut (edited 12-03-2001).]