2012-07-26, 04:00 PM
Chicocl Wrote:It's your responsibility if the gun disappears or not, because you wanted one to protect yourself, so If someone steals your gun and you don't report it then you should receive jail because it was your responsibility and if the gun was used to kill people even more punishment because all of that is caused by your own negligence.
The federal government's ONLY job is to protect us from other countries. That's it. Everything else, LITERALLY, everything else, is in the hands of the citizens, in a free society. You might say that it's their job to build up infrastructure for the country, but until the 1950s, THEY DIDN'T EVEN DO THAT. Small business owners and on rare occasions local government funded road projects up to that point. You might say it is their job to stabilize society if there is an imbalance, and that doesn't even need comments from me, just look at the past decade; every single thing they do to try and make things better, invariably makes things worse. In some (read:all) cases, MUCH worse. You might say it is their job to keep us healthy, and I'm not going to comment any more on that either, there are several pages of that already, but to simplify things, no, definitely not. You might say it is their job to protect us from ourselves, which I would also disagree with; people need to learn to protect themselves. I would be perfectly fine with the government hosting self-defense seminars and clearly explaining that, you need to think things through before you buy a gun, then you need to think things through even more before you actually use it.
Do you know why nobody stood up and shot that man the second he walked in? Because bars, theatres, restaurants, hell, most places of that sort, restrict guns even if you have a concealed carry permit. Do you know who that hurts? The people that follow the law. The people that don't follow the law don't give a pomegranate because they will do what they want regardless; you think a sign would have stopped him when he had the resolve to kill dozens of people and rig his home with explosives to wipe out the local law enforcement? The only proper answer is, "I don't think so, Tim". Someone in that theatre may have had a license and the training to stop that man, so I would go so far as to say, whoever passed the law restricting people from carrying concealed weapons in certain public places is around half responsible for this terrible event, the other half obviously being the gunman. People go crazy from time to time, it's just the way of the world, and no amount of regulation is going to stop that.