How can we fight against the NRA regarding gun control?
Mr. Hsu,You asked the question:“How can we fight against the NRA regarding gun control?”First, and foremost, thank you for your more than passing interest in American politics. I am glad you want to be globally informed.Now, you need to improve your global information sources so you don’t sound like a chowderhead when you ask questions like this.If you want to fight the NRA then I suggest you first LEGALLY immigrate to the United States and become a citizen. Then you need to find about 60,000,000 Americans who will vote with reasonable consistency on an issue that is a fundamental human right.What, you don’t see firearms ownership as a fundamental human right? That’s OK, a little over 220 years ago the Founding Fathers of America understood this better than most do today.They understood that sometimes the government FAILS to protect and the individual must be able to defend their life and livelihood and family without the support of the Government.At this point you must be thinking “surely a country as big and great as the United States wouldn’t leave citizens defenseless,” and you would be WRONG.Look at the riots in Baltimore, Maryland and Ferguson, Missouri recently. Look at the Los Angeles riots following the Rodney King riots.Citizens were hurt and property destroyed and the police did little if anything in the first two cases. In the third case, the police had pulled back to protect the “entitled rich white folk” while leaving the Asian immigrants to fend for their selves.These 60,000,000 people you need to be able to “fight” are the gun owners who have watched for the past couple of decades as the anti-2nd-amendment crowd seeks to limit the rights of the law abiding while flat freaking ignoring the real solutions to the problems of VIOLENCE. You see, it isn’t the tool that is the problem as the Britons are finding out, what with banning guns then knives and then more knives and now acid. The problem is treating criminals as victims of society and kissing their rear-ends and trying to paint the rest of society as the victimizer of the ‘poor, sad, misguided criminal’.We can fix the violence problem without banning the ownership of firearms by law abiding citizens. It just means that we need to actually put teeth, shark like teeth, in our laws and enforcement.I’m sorry if the laws of another country bother you so much. Perhaps you should live in your insular little bubble where bad things don’t happen to good people.