Why More Americans Want to Own Guns

[God of Mr. Hanky]

I have read every post in this thread (and admittedly snarked at a few) and I think I at last see the core of the issue:  The trouble seems to be that USians view gun ownership as a right, while much of the rest of the developed world sees it as a privilege.  My own country is awash in firearms, even though it is made very difficult to obtain small arms, and your license to own them can be removed for a number of reasons.  As I understand it, VERY few firearms licenses are suspended or revoked, as EnZeds take gun ownership as a serious responsibility.

Without getting into the legal niceties of the Second Amendment, mightn't it be wise to at least consider that your FF got this one wrong?

Boru

Americans wanted guns so that they could suppress any slave uprisings on the plantations.  So they made it a law that they could have them.  In the meantime the English in England couldn't have guns because they might use them against the monarchy and install a democratic government.

Americans wanted guns so that they could suppress any slave uprisings on the plantations.  So they made it a law that they could have them.  In the meantime the English in England couldn't have guns because they might use them against the monarchy and install a democratic government.

Ok, Shithead! How do you expect guns in the hands of slave owners to be any less a liability in homes where slaves serve than a control device, in event that slaves rebelled against their masters under the influence of any political climate which existed prior to the 1850s? How then do you expect any people who have been kept illiterate and isolated from each other to possibly succeed in organizing a successful revolt?

There was but one, and only one successful slave revolt in the Americas, and that was in Haiti. It would not have succeeded had it not taken place on their own land which they knew, and where they were already their own people. Also, it helped a bit that they were up against no brighter culture than the French.