I certainly think that the overwhelming narrative from the NRA/Conservatives is that the right to bear arms exists in order for the citizenry to be able to rise up against a tyrannical government. This is how they would argue for the automatic weapons etc. I had to drive to the other side of the state of NC yesterday and while there I turned on the radio. The programming was a conservative talk show and they were comparing Obama's executive orders to HItlers. Saying that Hitler confiscated all of the Jews guns and only allowed his friends and cronies to have weapons and that this is the direction Obama was heading. wtf? I have grandparents that witnessed WWII, and as children were displaced from their homes etc. They remember Hitler's Germany well and they are Obama supporters. The conservative media sure likes to throw around the Hitler comparisons and it's an insult to people that actually remember that monster. By the way, I felt the same way when idiots on the left were comparing GWBush with Hitler too.
I mean honestly, all Obama is trying to do at the moment is reduce the amount of large ammunition clips, and reduce the number of automatic weapons. I don't think that is asking too much. Ideally I would like a world with no guns, but that will never happen. I support the right to have small arms, and I also support having more educational programs about guns. I have never learned much about guns through the education system, I had to find out on my own. I feel that if we started to teach kids about the danger of guns and the responsibility guns bring then we would have a much more civilized conversation about this topic.
What would that type of education teaching kids about guns look like? Just curious if it would be in theory or if kids would be shooting guns?
No it wouldn't be kids shooting guns. It could even be something Like the D.a.r.e program for drugs. It isn't kids taking drugs in class. Just simple teaching