Cowboy America

As a Vietnam Veteran, one might think that I should be pro SECOND AMENDMENT and while I do support the rights underlined in this amendment, I am NOT a proponent of owning firearms.

• I understand the self protection concept...
• I understand the entertainment of hunting...
• I understand the challenge of shooting on a target range
• I understand the collector's mentality as well

BUT I WOULD NEVER OWN A FIREARM PERSONALLY...

I would not have a problem if a majority of Americans and States wanted to take the 2nd amendment out of the US Constitution...  as I do not think it is needed...

In 1776, we were a new country without a standing army except those who fought in the war against Great Britain.  We did not have a law enforcement agency, nor did we have the FBI, the CIA, or Homeland Security.

We needed our residents and citizens to be armed in case we were attacked or invaded...  the SECOND AMENDMENT made perfect sense.

Criminals and other bad people are going to find a way to acquire guns and firearms regardless of how many laws we pass and enforce...  that is just human nature...

While the NRA is a powerful organization and lobby, it can be defeated.

EDUCATION and PSYCHOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING & COUNSELING will not stop violence...  And, if you think that it will, you got your head firmly implanted up your tail section...

Survival of the fittest and just plain survival is embedded in our DNA.  Power and Control is also embedded in our DNA.  Having what others have is the soul of our DNA.  THEREFORE, we will always have crime and violence...

Victims of crimes and violence, never get payback...  or if they do, it is very seldom...  in some ways those that commit crime and violence are seen as folk heroes until they kill one of our family members...

The families of the victims never get satisfaction or payback...  especially when the shooter is killed by law enforcement.  Killing the shooter removes the element of revenge...  so these families have to live with the fact that they will never get revenge...

The freedoms that Americans perceive that they have negates the fact that we are mature enough to control ourselves...  consequently, we will always need to be controlled.

Only in a Democracy do we have these freedoms...

 

There would be no second amendment in most all other countries in the world...  The USA is the only country in the world to have the second amendment....

What do these other countries know that we do not?