And how many of those 14,000 homicides are gang-bangers killing each other or perps killed while committing crimes?
So what drives people to own guns?
Because many of those 14,000 fatalities were people who needed to be killed?
Without Americans and guns the BBC would be broadcasting in German.
I love my guns at least as much as servile Euro-Trash loves their kings and dictators.
Registering guns is a dream of the progressives and would lead to confiscation. We must never have a gun registry.
Keep safe by keeping the 2nd amendment sacred like the rest of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution to which they were added.
Registered? I doubt it.
but that still leaves approximately 14,000 homicides a year.
Nope. Most deaths by firearm are the result of police shootings.
I couldn’t get the film to play, but I am nauseated by the propaganda line in the excerpt:
“Each year they [firearms] are responsible for about 34,000 deaths.”
When a criminal stabs someone to death in the UK, do they arrest and charge the knife? Does the Queen’s Bench routinely sentence knives to long terms in a locked cutlery drawer? The BBC tells us that inanimate objects are responsible for whatever is done with them, so I must assume they hold that humans who misuse tools are not.
So how many people are killed in self defense?
So how many people are killed in self defense?
Spent an awful lot of time videoing a full auto sub gun.
Authors credibility is gone right from the beginning sentence. The guns do not cause the deaths it is the people who cause them.
I remember once telling a bunch of Brits and French that my favorite thing about the USA was that we can all own guns. I knew it would upset them and it was worth it.
As immigrants from middle eastern nations increase in numbers, decline to integrate into societies, and some become radicalized, Europeans rightfully become fearful.
A firearm, responsibly owned, can offer security and comfort in the face of violent crime and potential terror attacks.
I could describe America’s current predilection with guns as having a similar desire for an iconoclastic, outsider president who will tear down much of the unconstitutional federal government.
1) The leaders of both parties are corrupt and in complicity. The Democrats are absolutely controlled by internationalist socialists, who openly despise our nation, its history, its constitution and its principles, and us as a people, and whose very organization is roughly akin to an organized crime syndicate. The Republican leadership is effectively controlled by internationalist multinational corporationists, who crave a plutocracy led by multi-billionaires. They, as well, have little or no loyalty to our nation or its people.
And the citizenry are sick to death of both of these groups of failures, this malignant growth of tyranny by whatever name, that undermine the strength of our nation and saps its substance, while selling our posterity into slavery.
2) The last several POTUS have been disastrous. GHW Bush went whole hog for a corporatist world. Bill Clinton was so utterly mired in corruption that he gave us collective nausea. W. Bush turned out nation into a police surveillance state, turning the War on Terror into a War Against American Freedom. And, of course, Obama. In retrospect, it would be hard to judge whether Republicans or Democrats would have made worse, and more disastrous leaders.
3) The one saving grace is that at least the states have now come to understand how vicious the ravages inflicted by the federal government have been, though there is little they can do to mitigate them. They have torn down much of the War on Drugs, at least against marijuana, the federals most profitable and corrupt estate; and they have restored much of our gun rights, at least allowing us to defend ourselves at the individual level against the unthinking, criminal brutes that menace us.
But the people crave someone who will lift us out of this cesspit of irresponsible filth, restoring what is ours to us, at the expense of the bloated, overreaching, oppressive and tyrannical government.
The rest of the world can go to Hell, as we no longer want to uplift them at the cost of our own prosperity; we no longer want to admit the heathen masses who yearn to tear down what we have built to make us like the tyrannies they left behind; we no longer want multinational corporations to exploit our markets, while returning us neither taxes, nor to hire Americans, nor to buy from us; we are tired of it all.
And we are especially sick of dynastic insiders, who seek to rule over us because of the accident of birth and the access to billions of lobbyist dollars. We are sick of the bureaucratic Mandarins who heap endless regulations on us to smother us in micromanagement. Sick, sick, sick.
This is why Americans want guns. And this is why Americans are hoping against hope for someone who will tear down this Fortress of Ultimate Darkness that is the federal government.
The BBC refuses to acknowledge that our Second Amendment stemmed from the Founding Fathers’ memories of one King George.
One word: freedom.
Once in Tokyo, a Japanese woman asked me why Americans needed guns since there were no more hostile indians or wild animals. When I told her it was to protect us from an aggressive government she shut down the conversation and stormed away. Truth, reality and facts are like various forms of Kryptonite to liberals.
“So what drives people to own guns?”
Because we can. :-)