“When there’s a driving accident, you don’t ban cars, you try to prevent drunk people from driving.”
This is the view that Fox & Friends television host Tucker Carlson shared with his American audience on Monday night. Carlson argued that the discussion of gun restrictions in the wake of the Oregon college shooting last week — where nine people died — were an “infantile focus on the tool of the violence.”
“The idea that taking guns away from the law-abiding will make us safer is insane and childish,” Carlson said.
When his co-host Clayton Morris countered with the view that Australia has effectively controlled guns and gun violence by limiting access, Carlson was quick to interrupt.
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Oh my, what a load of nonsense, you need proof Australia is a nanny state? How about demanding adults wear a bicycle helmet? How about little boys not allowed to have a slingshot, how about needing a category A license to own a BB gun! Thats a gun that fires literally small plastic pellets that would struggle to go through a sheet of paper at 10m. I could go on and on.
I would like to know how many women have rolled an ankle in high heels, or thrown one at someone, completely avoidable no need for high heels.
How about high power vehicles? Drive a V8 through a crowd kill twenty people so mass murder is possible. I remember the campaign about cars being a one ton missile.
Now should honest, non criminal people be allowed access to firearms damn right, what right do you or any govt on the face of the earth have to tell me how to live my live AS LONG as it does not interfere with your life.
When I am guilty of killing terrorising or whatever prosecute me then but just because you do not like my hobby so what.
No we do not need machine guns, but rifles, pistols should all be OK with a reasonable background check. Freedom by nature has risk that is the price of it. If you were a Christian you would know God gave freedom with the risk of rebellion which is what occurred but for true freedom you will have risk.
I know what I want. I should say some mental nutter tried to car jack my 50kg wife and son on country road by running car off of road, why should she not have the tools even pepper spray to defend herself? You can sacrifice your family with your self righteous attitude but not mine.
I keep to myself and worry about my well being you should worry about yours.
This country is well on the way to becoming a dictatorship/police state another prisoner was Pauline Hanson jailed for nothing other than an opinion.
If they keep referring to the 1st Amendment then they should have a gun from that era, which is what the Amendment would have referred too - you can't match a 100+yr old statement with modern warfare.
You mean the 2nd amendment, it's about having a militia being necessary to secure a free state and the right to bear arms. It's supposed to be about defending your country, not arming everyone for 'protection' which seems to be how most people use it.
The amendment has an interesting history really.
*2nd
Oops :/
Sorry, yes I do mean the 2nd.
And that's what I mean; people today are just taking it out of context and applying the idea of 'I am entitled, nay, encouraged to have a gun, so I'm going to get myself the biggest damn gun I can!'. What they are doing today is absolutely not in the spirit of the Amendment.