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By exercising both we are demonstrating force, and through force you can make change. This is the nature of the universe. Without force nothing changes. With the application of force we have movement, creation, destruction, and rebirth.
We are always going to here these stories. The offender had a gun. The offender always has guns. They are easier to procure illegally. People aren't bad because of guns people are bad , people are bad on there own. If not there would be no need for law.I understand the part about protecting the liberty and freedom of your country.
And I understand that the right to bear arms is carved in stone in your constitution.
But, as long as guns are legal in your country, you're going to keep hearing stories like the one that started this thread:
Lethal Weapon: Houston tow truck driver shot at during tow, escapes with his life on Vimeo
As are most people who are involved in violent encounters. The gun isn't the issue. The person was the issue. Address the issue.That tow truck driver in Houston was merely trying to do his job by towing an illegally parked truck. The owner of the truck pulled out a gun and started shooting at the tow truck driver. The guy wasn't protecting the liberty and freedom of Americans. He was trying to kill a guy who was only doing his job.
Saying it boils down to a fee is an over simplification. The guy was drunk and felt himself to be defending his property. It was ill founded.Anyhow, I think we all agree that guns in the hands of RESPONSIBLE people is not an issue. It's guns in the hands of the people in this story, that would start shooting and potentially kill someone only to save the cost of a towing fee, that's the problem.
In Texas he would have been allowed to keep his job and continue working. Bullshit hypocrisy.If any off-duty cop pulled out his gun and started shooting at a tow truck driver that was towing his car, he'd be fired and never work as a cop again.
You don't learn to do some thing by taking it away and you don't learn to exercise rights by not having any.If people with guns can't learn to exercise the self discipline required to use them RESPONSIBLY, then they shouldn't be allowed to have them. The greater the power you put in a person's hands, the greater the onus on their part to use that power responsibly. And, it just seems to me that's not happening. This guy is using that power to shoot and potentially kill someone to save himself a $200 towing fee ?!?!?.
I grew up in law enforcement. My father shot and was shot at many times. He was trained for it and prepared. The only way I knew this as a child was if he came home closed the door and cried to my Mom. My Father is a hard ***. Killing any one isn't easy. Nor is the thought that some one wants to kill you.Who here would want to see their son, brother, father or husband shot and killed over $200.
By the same logic Alcohol, Candy, Pornography, Food and everything else should be banned or regulated. We can't control the actions of the populace we can only educate them to the responsible use of the things in question. Before they argue these things don't kill people. Yes they do. And they ruin lives.I don't have a problem with RESPONSIBLE gun ownership. I have a problem with an irresponsible person pulling out his gun and shooting because he's not thinking of the potential consequences of what he's doing. That is irresponsible gun ownership.
Because that's illegal and immoral. How would it have ended if the tow truck driver was armed. What if he couldn't have got away? One more person that can't go home ever again. The argument is not in gun control. The argument is in assholes.I think it's fine for people to have a gun to protect their own house from burglars, or for store owners to have guns to protect themselves from robbery and things like that. Those people would only use their guns if they really had to. They wouldn't start chasing away tow truck drivers with them.
I agree that most of the Americans I've ever met/seen seem to be ordinary hard working, intelligent and honest people.
(Ya just wouldn't guess that from watching TV.)
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