Why?

Most anyone who's taken a US Civics course in high school is chuckling at your statement.

But good night, Matt.

 

One of the dumbest posts in the thread.

No one in the audience was stupid enough to try to hit a target hundreds of yards away with any handguns they might have been carrying. Your scenario is incredibly ignorant of the situation and the facts.

A post from lala land. In short, you have no point.

 

No, they are the government, the authorities. The words "the people" that one reads in the Constitution mean the citizenry as individuals. For instance when it says in the 4th Amendment that: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against .....etc. that clearly means us as individuals, not the collective. It's the same thing with the 2nd, it was "the people" with their privately owned firearms who answered the call to Lexington and Concord.

Inspections? By who? No one comes into my house unless they are invited in by me or my wife. Keeping locked away? In a home that contains 2 adults who are both trained there is no reason to keep the firearm locked away, that is my choice. If my wife needs it some night while I am away, it needs to be easily and quickly accessible. When children come over, then it gets locked up.

 

Let's face it. Brits, and almost all of the free world simply do not understand the relationship between Americans, the Constitution, and firearms. It's so deeply imbedded in our history, our psyche, and our laws, that they will never understand.

They either forget, or just don't know, that the American Revolution actually began when the British tried to confiscate the arsenal of guns at Concord. The first battle of the Texas revolution was at Gonzales and was precipitated by the Mexicans trying to confiscate a cannon. The American West was tamed with the gun by armed citizens. The concept of armed self defense is deeply ingrained in our society.

Foreigners just don't get it.

Neither would they ever understand that attempted gun confiscation by our own federal government, which we fear more than any other government, would likely be met by armed resistance. And certainly , an invasion by a foreign enemy would meet with never ending armed resistance and insurrection, fueled by the millions of guns in private hands.

Texans, for sure, and a lot of other Americans know what "Molon labe" means and will die before they let their guns be taken away.

Brits, in particular, have been both on the receiving end of our proficiency with firearms and the beneficiary of the same numerous times over the past 100 years. You'd think they'd eventually catch on.

 

No, not likely IN THAT PARTICULAR SITUATION.

 

Which demonstrates you have you head in the sand. Walk the Tower Bridge much?

 

That is postmodern, relativistic nonsense (redundant, I know)

Using your logic, the cross of Christ is too outdated to do mankind any good.

 

I am in favor of extensive background checks for anyone wanting any type of weapon. That includes a psychological evaluation. I have first hand seen people become unhinged and Discharge deer rifles and killing bystanders, shotguns killing bystanders, handguns, bow & arrows etc. in post mortums, it’s always that the shooter becomes or was always mentally unbalanced, of course that never happens in the calm and tranquil country that is the USA.