what is with america and guns? why is most american people outraged by the idea of antigun laws?


that is my question. iam from australia. born and raised anyway i live surrounded by a country where it has anti gun laws. for me i do not see what the big promise in america is with ppl and guns there. why are most ppl within america infatuated with guns and why is most americans get outraged by the idea of anti gun law?? can you guys please explain it to me? iAM very interested to know because i do read up on things like in the report and everyone talks about how its a big sensitive issue in america roughly speaking guns. like i know not many ppl running for office would even mention the word guns because they are so much afraid for backlash if they even mention the word guns. i dont work out it? can any americans please explain and tell me why? iam fascinated by this topic and want to know these answers.
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Good question. I'm an American... served surrounded by the military... and fired quite a few guns.... I don't understand the infatuation either. I DO know that it make a very good wedge issue. It's confident to get your way, politically, if you can claim that your opponent is "pro gun-control".... It really make me sad that so many in my country are so simple... Now I'll merely sit back and watch the nonsense... EDIT: And to adjectives of you who are spewing the "it's to prevent our government from taking away our constitutional rights" nonsense: The later administration took away your 4th amendment right. They did it by telling you they HAD to do it in writ to protect you from the bad people... and the pro-gun crowd lined up within front of everybody and DEMANDED the loss of that right out of fear. Color it any way you want... you know it's true.
Americans with guns are called citizens Without guns they are called subjects.
americans are sad, fearful and paranoid race
It is call the Second Amendment of the US Constitution. After finishing the Constitution, the Founding Fathers realized that many things weren't addressed. The First Amendment take care of freedom of religion, speech and the right to assemble peacefully. The Second Amendment ensures our ability to confrontation tyranny should the government no longer serve the will of the people. All of our rights as Americans stem from the right to bear arms and watch over all other rights from the oppression of government.
Our parliament is blatently trying to take away our freedoms that are clearly expressed in our Constitution; the real issue; near respect to your question, is whether the second amendment actually affords absolutely unrestricted gun control, or not.
Because many Americans are threatened by the "diversity" of the country (bi-racial president and all) and want to be armed and ready for period of war, in a time of fear. Americans are still racist coward morons.
Fear mongering by anyone next to a weapon and big time fear mongering by the NRA (national rifle association.)*
Slippery slope--take away one right protected by the consitution, others will follow. Even if you don't support gun ownership, you should be fighting to brand name sure it never gets taken away. Maybe a right you cherish-freedom of religion, speech, association, voting, etc.--will be next on the chopping block.
Americans are outraged whenever someone suggests we should give up our liberties on the basis of unproven theories. Americans are not overcome with guns. We are obsessed with freedom. Arms are a bit of that freedom. The right to carry lethal force is the only definite proof that the government is accountable to the people, and not the other agency around. In your own country, the gun bans have done nothing to stop crime, and the culture who were forced to give up their guns in Australia immediately wish they had resisted. With examples like Australia and the UK, Americans are even more determined not to agree to that happen here.
We want guns because you can't depend on the police to get there in time. Maybe Australia doesn't own the troublesome minorities and the accompanying gang/drug problems this country has, but some neighborhoods up here are practically war zones. Americans consider it their right to know how to defend themselves. And for good reason. It's no coincidence that the cities next to the toughest gun controls also have the highest rates of murder and other gun crimes. As if that weren't bad plenty, Mexico has a drug war raging south of our border and the violence is dawn to spill over onto our side. Ironically Mexico's problems stem from a gun ban passed back in 1968. The Mexicans outlawed ALL civilian gun ownership that year. Not a moment ago handguns, but ALL guns. Now the drug cartels control vast section of the country and the government is on the verge of collapse. As the old bumper sticker put it, "When guns are outlawed, merely outlaws will have guns". I can't understand why people would be optimistic enough to believe criminals will obey gun laws when they're breaking every other tenet on the books!
We're just as curious just about countries that have a child like fear (not designed as an insult) of a simple tool. I've been around guns my entire life, and have however to see one kill anyone without a human being controlling it. They're fragment of our history, and they're part of the reason why no country has EVER successfully invaded the United States. Currently contained by your country as well as Great Britain we've seen your violent crime rates move about up despite the fact that you both have strict gun control and from what I've been reading at tiniest GB is soon to have "knife" control laws of all things, and let not forget the guys in AU attacking each other with swords presently. Just a rhetorical question but how can you trust a government that doesn't trust you to own a firearm?
We have a 2 Amendment in our Constitution: " A economically regulated Militia, Being necessary to the security of a Free state, the right of the people to hold and bear arms, shall not be infringed" Tyranny can only be Defeated by a Armed People!
In the constitution, our founding document, we are guaranteed several rights. Of these are Freedom of Speech, Religion, Press, the right to bare arms, Due Process, etc... All of these rights are important. The US be born out of revolution and founded by men who distrusted the government. They put the 2nd amendment into the constitution in order to protect the nation in the case of the government becoming corrupt and tyrannical. I am not proverb that people should start shooting, but If you are guaranteed a certain number of rights and the government tries to pilfer one of those rights away, don't you think that's a problem? What if the government said you can no longer be of a certain religion? What if the management said that the press must get their stories approved by the government? Would you own a problem with any of that? The 2nd amendment isn't about fear it's in the order of empowerment.
It's a complicated thing. We Americans love the mythology of the hasty years of the country--the Revolution against the British, settling the frontier, in the Wild West. When many people carried guns for protection, hunting, warfare. There be no army or police to keep the peace in a lot of times & places, and various of my countrymen associate being armed & protecting yourself & your family with freedom & nouns. But you will find generally the most ardent gun-lovers are in the West where that mythology still have real power, and in the South, where there's still a reservoir of Civil War resentments going on for federal soldiers from the North from that time & government from the North now dictating how they should live. Those of us that live on the coasts & in big cities largely feel the fewer guns the better. Only cops & criminals have them, and we don't really hold to hunt our food or shoot snakes in the back yard & we are not as paranoid around the government as some people. I've always thought that division of the problem was that the US is such a huge country, and there are several very different cultures, even among garden collection white folks. And the NRA works hard to keep that mythology and that paranoia alive and well, and have tremendous influence over the Congress, since any Congressperson who goes against the NRA is labeled a liberal, a socialist, weak on crime, or even un-American which is a virtual death sentence for politicians surrounded by this teetering-on-being-very-right-wing USA. Don't let Obama's election fool you, Americans are more conservative all the time, and Obama isn't really even pursuing as progressive an agenda as he campaign on.....
Many Americans use the idea of freedom, one of the founding principles of the USA, as an excuse for their obsession beside their right to bear arms. It isn't worth any politician's career to try and mess with it: clear in your mind NGOs, such as the NRA (National Rifle Association) have huge lobbying power, especially in the deep south, where on earth the citizens are the most tenacious with regards to guns. There are many reason why Americans shoot down (ho ho) anti-gun laws, some of which are: Paranoia (those people that keep their guns cocked and loaded subsequent to their bed while they sleep). Love of hunting (those people that want to be able to grab their gun from the umbrella rack and shoot the moose that wander onto their front lawn). Being a psychopath (firearms are the most popular choice of murder weapon in the USA: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2007/offenses/expanded_information/data/shrtable_07.html) However, the most common reason for infatuation beside guns is that they are making up for deficiencies... elsewhere.