(February 16, 2019 at 10:42 pm)fredd bear Wrote:(February 16, 2019 at 9:19 pm)Brian37 Wrote: No easy solution right now, but cultural yea. Far too many Americans worship an object.
THE main problem that I see, as an outsider is what seems to me to be a wilful misinterpretation of the Second Amendment to the US Constitution.
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." .
. This was written in the eighteenth century, when the country had just fought the War of Independence. The people who did the fighting were free citizens, not a standing army.. It was reasonable to assume there might soon be other armed conflicts., when those citizens may need to fight again.
A major problem is also the National Rifle Association, which as a lobbying group a has far more power than its membership might suggest.
But hey, what do I know.I'm just an ignorant foreigner.----from a country in which it is difficult to own a hand gun and where the number of gun deaths is not a national embarrassment
It was in the age of muskets and cannons. And you don't want your slave labor to rebel either.
But yea. It was not about individual ownership, but collective ability to prevent what the Colonists fought to free themselves from the King of England.
You are not as ignorant as many living here.
The firearm industry, is just like McDonalds, Amazon, Exxon. If you are a CEO of a business, your goal is to expand the market and attract shareholders.
