Obama does not want to ban automatic weapons : Why?

Saturday, April 18th, 2009 at 4:30 am

This is a move that really puzzles me. I am a person that really is against guns. I think guns have no place in a civil society. Only the army, police and other forms of security forces should carry guns. I understand that there are people out there that would disagree with me.

But what I do not understand is this : Why is the US government allowing people to own AK-47s and M-16s? Is that really for personal protection? 2nd amendment in 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 is the basis pro gun groups like the National Rifle Association would base their case upon.

Do these people understand that this amendment is seriously flawed? Who defines what an “arm” (short for armament) is? There is no law, believe it or not, that defines an armament in the United States. In other words, a very rich and crazy person can, with proper licenses, own a tank for “self defense” and it would not be illegal for him to do so!

In his nomination speech during his Presidential campaign President Obama said that we may not agree on whether we should own a gun, but we can agree that that our streets would not have anyone in the world carrying AK47s. Yet it seems that he has forgotten about it himself and reversed his position.

I really do not see anything good coming out of someone owning an assault rifle. Unlike a solitary handgun which a person can claim that the person needs to protect ones’ self in a tough neighborhood, or a hunting rifle to go hunting, but what is the use of an assault rifle or a machine gun. You do not expect yourself to go about “defending” yourself with an M-16, don’t you?

Lets cut the crap. Guns are meant to kill. These very assault rifles can be found in military all around the world. They are there to kill the enemy and nothing else. Killing is exactly what the drug cartels are doing right now.

90% of guns used by these cartels come from the US. Contrary to what the right-wingers might believe, I would rather trust the information that comes out from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives rather than some non government sources. This is because the gun laws in the United States is huge. If there can be cases where “a new born baby” can acquire a gun without being caught, (I refer to the case last year when a man registered himself as his new born baby and managed to get a gun) there is something very wrong with the gun laws in this country.

Another suggestion that I can give President Calderon is this. Ban the influx of weapons from the US to Mexico altogether. Ban them. That is the simplest method isn’t it? Ban the weapons coming into Mexico outright and there would be much less trouble altogether. I do not think that the US would mind helping ensure that no guns enter Mexico.

Lastly, this should also silence all the right wingers that think that seem to think that President Obama is going to take away your guns. He is not even having the backbone to pass a law saying that there would be a ban on assault weapons.

Either way, even if President Obama is really going to go after your gun, why buy it then? You want to start a revolutionary war? It is like the government saying that they would be banning milk that comes from China, and people are storing them up because they want them.

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