Pray for the USA

[mraf]

The beginning of this thread was "Pray for the USA". But I feel we all should not only do this but also write your congressman or woman. If you do not voice your opinion occasionally he or she does not know how their constituents feel or think. I have done this many times and have recieved back responses to my e-mails. I served some years in various positions in my towns government and believe me the old saying [ The squeaky wheel gets the grease] is sooooooooooooooo true!

[RandyR]

The beginning of this thread was "Pray for the USA". But I feel we all should not only do this but also write your congressman or woman. If you do not voice your opinion occasionally he or she does not know how their constituents feel or think. I have done this many times and have recieved back responses to my e-mails. I served some years in various positions in my towns government and believe me the old saying [ The squeaky wheel gets the grease] is sooooooooooooooo true!

 

good advice

[N3FOL]

To shoot a man just because you disagree with his government policies is very wrong. It is a sad day for America. The Congressman is still on critical condition and I am praying that he will recover fully.

[RDawson]

To shoot a man just because you disagree with his government policies is very wrong. It is a sad day for America. The Congressman is still on critical condition and I am praying that he will recover fully.

 

 

You hit the nail on the head. It's just wrong. I believe that if both sides could get together and use all the effort and money spent fighting over the guns (pro and con) to get to the bottom of the real issue we could get somewhere. The weapons have always been here without issue, so why has the mentality of people changed? I have opinion on this but this is not the place to air them.

[CaseyJ955]

In Australia we have had a couple of gun buy backs and a lot of tightening of our gun control laws. Instigated by a incident where more than 30 people were murdered by a lone gunman in Port Arthur, Tasmania. He used military style rifles.

I dont know off hand of anyone trying to shoot politicians in this country (not saying nobody wants to or hasn't thought about it). I do remember a guy ramming his car into parliament house a few years back.

With all the gun control and buy backs there are now more licenced shooters and more guns in Australia than before the Port Arthur massacre. What has changed is we are not allowed to have semi auto or full auto rifles. Hangun owners must belong to and attend sporting club shooting ranges. We have no concealed carry option with handguns. We have a 28 day waiting period while purchasing new firearms.

 

There is a low gun related murder rate here and I dont feel the need to carry a handgun for personal protection.

 

Crims and psychos can still get guns and gun crime still happens here but at a lower rate than the US. Laws may help but Crims and psychos have never cared much for laws. Our government has announced yet another amnesty allowing the law abiding citizens a chance to register or surrender unregistered firearms ( estimated to number around 250000 in this country). Of course no crims will be handing their guns in.

 

Gun control here is not a gun ban.

Law abiding citizens can still own guns and lots of them do. Like me.

 

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I love your closet there, excellent. IMHO the problem in the USA has more to do with people than guns. No lone gunman should be able to off 30 people, unless they are all unarmed. Sucks that it has come to this but while I may leave my place without a gun I would NEVER EVER go into town without one. Sadly it really has come to that here, so much craziness going on in the world, and on our soil. It's really overwhelming to read national and international news every day. I would never hand over a gun to the gov, not under any circumstances and I'm a law abiding citizen, at least until the day they require all guns be relinquished.

[saddlebum]

I am not against responsible level headed people earning the right (let me repeat earning the right) to own guns. Ironically here in Canada Bleeding hearts have a louder voice than level headed people and so whenever there is an incident the cry goes out for either banning guns or stricter controls. Yet the minute Police try to go after the real culprits or those likely to abuse, the same idiots cry out about how profiling etc is abuse of these criminals rights. Gun crime in Toronto went up by 60% almost overnight as soon the Police hands were tied from randomly checking or profiling known or likely gang members from being searched.

 

I say let responsible people own guns after proper and thorough checks, education and testing and start coming down 100 fold on the criminals and gangsters.

[CaseyJ955]

The same crying goes on here, and it's LOUD. The NRA and our vast, quickly growing militias do put a real damper on those that would seek to violate our constitutional rights so we do thankfully have these factors. If you want to mobilize millions of Americans very quickly, roll out a gun buyback program or step on the constitution. That'l do er'. South Dakota and most of the states that touch it are sort of like the last bastion of the old west and we happy to go on about our lives without enduring the insane overregulation and revocation of rights/privacy seen on our coastal states that have fallen to terrible leadership.

 

Unfortunately when idiots use firearms as weapons and in the commission of crimes we all take a step backwards.