NRA : Terror watch-list members should have guns
The National Rifle Association is fighting for people on the terror-watch list to own guns. Many members of the terror watch list are not even permitted to be passengers on planes, but more than 80% of them could buy a gun when they wanted to!
Before, I go on writing this article, I would like to make somethings clear. I am not a bit of a fan of guns at all. I think that they do not belong to a society at all. I would give some leeway to difference of thought when it comes to self protection with a handgun, but I do not tolerate GPMGs, AK-47s, grenades or M16s in neighborhoods at all.
But has the NRA gone nuts?! To me, this action equates to suspect pedophiles giving one to one tuition to minors. I equate this to allowing suspect arsonists buying flame throwers. This is seriously disturbing. Fighting the right for a suspect terrorist to buy 50lb of explosives? How in the hell are you going to defend that? They need bombs for self protection?
The NRA claims that people cannot be stripped of their rights just because they are on the terror lists. Well, they must be! If they cannot get from point A to point B by plane, how can they have a gun or bomb. They have their phones tapped without a warrant and people watching them (invasion of privacy), especially if they give sermons or speak out.
If someone feels that they are being wronged, they should not fight for their 2nd Amendment rights; they should fight not to be on that list! Isn’t that common sense? It would be like Jews fighting to be artists in Nazi Germany, rather than fighting Nazi oppression.
Look, I trust the US intelligence agencies. Yes, we know that they have made mistakes in their past and I still do not agree with water-boarding or Guantanamo Bay, but I would still trust the agencies. I think that we should be so conspiratorial. Lets give people doing their jobs the benefit of the doubt, but lets voice our opinion on matters that they are wrong in.
The issue though would blow out to be just about politics. That is sad. The Republicans would fight tooth and nail for the NRA and the Democrats would make them out to be Satans. How many times have we heard stupid rumors that President Obama was going to take away your guns?
You really want to know how hypocritical politics is: We should torture people that we think are terrorists, but they should have the right to have guns and explosives. This is the Republican version of the ACLU stopping people from exercising their right to free speech to protest against illegal immigration!
I really hope that we are going to approach matters from a point of common sense and not party affiliations.
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Enough of guns already

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The question is this when is enough, enough? What would it take for people to realize that guns is the key ingredient to killing people? How many innocent people must die because governments around the world kneel to gun lobby groups?
Finland took action when two killing spree happen a year within each other and after 19 unnecessary deaths. IT transformed overnight from a country that had a high tolerance for guns to one that now is very suspicious of guns.
When would the Americans get that? They had the Columbine school massacre, the Virgina Tech school massacre and the most recent case in Chicago where a crazed gunman went about killing people in a church. When would this stop? When would American stop kow-towing to the National Rifles Association and put a stop to this?
When would the Germans get it? This is not their first case of violence caused by firearms. Have they forgotten the Erfurt massacre in 2002? Or the more recent case is Emsdetten? When are the Germans going to wake up?
I really do not see the need to have guns in this world today. Guns do no good. They are there to kill and to deter aggression. That is the reason you see policemen and the Army having them, to be used as a deterrence force. Gangsters use it to kill. Period.
It is very difficult to go about on a killing spree with a sword or a bow and arrow but so easy to carry a gun. A woman can keep a gun in her purse. It is easy to conceal and much easier to use to carry out killing sprees.
Do you know what is the most irritating defense there is by the pro-gun lobby for acts like these? “Well if there were students in the schools that had guns, they could have taken care of this situation better.” That excuse is like saying that the International Olympic Committee should not go after athletes who take steroids but rather make it legal.
Another popular defense for gun and fire-arms use is that these items do not kill people but people kill people. These people would also point to the fact that there are less gun-related death that there are to food poisoning or jay-walking. My answer to this claim is a rather simple one: People kill people much easier with guns. Gun related deaths account for a very small percentage of death, but every death at the hand of a fire-armed lunatic is way too much.
There are lots of debate between the right and left that I respect. I am with the left on abortions but I respect the position from the right. I am with the right when it comes to making unions, but I understand the argument from the left.
But when it comes to guns, I take absolutely no exception. It is so obvious that facts stack up in one direction. It is almost culpable to us allowing people to die because of gun lobbies all around the world. In fact there are many countries in the world where having an illicit fire-arm is the act of attempted murder to some degree.
Look at countries that have strict gun measures. They are generally regarded as safer than countries that do not have guns. Such examples of countries are Singapore and Hong Kong which are much safer than most Western cities.
I really hope that this sends a loud message to the Americans and the Germans. It is time for their governments to “wake up” and face the gun problem head on. It would really make many people sleep safer the night guns are banned.
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