A basic right for weapons?

US-Citizens have a basic right for weapons!

Okay, before I start my rant, here are some facts about what actually happened:

Silent on central questions of gun control for two centuries, the Supreme Court found its voice Thursday in a decision affirming the right to have guns for self-defense in the home and addressing a constitutional riddle almost as old as the republic over what it means to say the people may keep and bear arms. The court's 5-4 ruling struck down the District of Columbia's ban on handguns and imperiled similar prohibitions in other cities, Chicago and San Francisco among them. Federal gun restrictions, however, were expected to remain largely intact.
Washington Times

This just isn’t right to me. If you ask me, a basic right to arm is one of the most stupid things in this world. I mean, how can there be something like a BASIC RIGHT for WEAPONS?

There can’t be peace without a ban of weapons!

You may argue that in the USA there are so many riots and gangs and violence and that you need to defend yourself. I admit, I have never been there, and I don’t know how bad it maybe actually really is. But I seriously don’t think that the permission of guns for private use is helping much.

Who is there to judge that someone used the gun as self-defence? What is self-defence anyways? Imagine: a teacher takes a student’s cell phone away because he was on the phone during the lesson. The student shoots the teacher after school to get the cell phone back, saying it was self defence because he got robbed by the teacher.
I agree, the example may be stupid but I hope you get what I mean.

And what will happen to policemen and “women? They’ll be more faced with criminals with weapons in their hands than they already are. Shouldn’t the police be more “powerful” than the criminals?

To be honest, this whole “right” sounds like armament to me. But with arming, they don’t do anything against the problems that there are. I wouldn’t feel saver in a country where everyone is allowed to wear weapons. I would have a constant feeling of fear. The government should not give weapons to everyone to protect themselves against violence, they should do something to stop the violence!


Note: This is just my opinion. You may have different beliefs. I'd love to hear about them. Discuss away.
Posted on June 28th, 2008 at 05:56am

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