The Second Amendment doesn't grant us the right. Our creator does. The Second Amendment merely affirms and protects that universal human right. You have that right as well, if you only stand up and demand it.
Nah I'm fine I don't feel the need for a gun. I live in a safe city and have never seen a real gun in my life. All though I think your interpretation that god gave us a right to bear arms is a bit far fetched for me.
You do you and I will do me.
There have been 109 shootings in the city since May, including last Sunday's deadly attack on Danforth Avenue, when a gunman opened fire on strangers, killing two and injuring 13 others.
"We have had an escalating issue with gun violence in this city," city councillor Joe Cressy told the BBC.
A day after the attack, Mr Cressy tabled a motion to ask the federal and provincial governments to ban handgun and ammunition sales, respectively, within city limits.
"In jurisdictions around the world where you have fewer guns you have a lower rate of gun violence," Cressy says.
"In a city like Toronto, I can't understand why anyone would need a gun unless you're law enforcement."
Cressy's motion passed 41-4. Council also voted in favour of additional police officers and surveillance capabilities, and to study best policies and practices for reducing gun violence.
Canada also requires training, a personal risk assessment, two references, spousal notification and criminal record checks.
But the debate sounds very different there than it does in the U.S. There’s no Second Amendment in Canada, and the Supreme Court has explicitly saidthat nobody in the country has a right to bear arms—instead, it’s a privilege granted only to those who make it through an intense screening process. Canadians also don’t have a gun lobby as politically powerful as the National Rifle Association. In fact, it’s entirely possible to live in Canada for years without ever hearing of the country’s smaller, grassroots gun-lobby groups.
About 2 million Canadians own guns, out of a total population of 30 million. Handguns are usually obtained either through legal purchase or through illegal smuggling from the U.S. (Authorities have not yet announced publicly whether the Toronto shooting suspect legally obtained the handgun he used in the attack.) “Our problem is, because we share a border with you,” Cukier said, referring to the U.S., “even if we ban handguns, we would still have a problem with smuggled guns.” A ban on guns only impacts the legal stream; the illegal steam can continue unabated.
“The president of the NRA comes up here once in a while to provide advice and encouragement to the Canadian gun lobby, and there are formal relationships between some of the lobby groups and the NRA,” Cukier said. “What is very profound is the impact of the rhetoric and the strategies, which you can almost cut and paste from the U.S. You find many Canadian gun owners now talking about their rights to own guns in Canada, but there are none! And we see constant, constant, constant rhetoric about our need for self-protection.”
And with less guns, there's violence with other tools.with more guns, there is more gun violence.
Yeah and its alot harder to commit mass murder with a knife.And with less guns, there's violence with other tools.
Yes, every time you say something stupid I will simply counter it with the reality that is violence has nothing to do with the tool being used, but the person using it.
I haven't read the bible in a while but could you point me to the part where it says "Then god said let there be guns and it was good"?The Second Amendment doesn't grant us the right. Our creator does. The Second Amendment merely affirms and protects that universal human right. You have that right as well, if you only stand up and demand it.
You can just admit you're wrong
Hmm it's almost like the problem isn't the object itself but the people who abuse them...I could put a bag of illegal narcotics on the ground and would get the same result.
Does that mean narcotics shouldn't be regulated?
The Second Amendment doesn't grant us the right. Our creator does. The Second Amendment merely affirms and protects that universal human right. You have that right as well, if you only stand up and demand it.
Lol, what.
As a Swede I don't have the right to walk around with murder tools, and I'm very happy about that. Hmm, when was our last mass shooting again...
https://www.thelocal.se/20171222/in-figures-2017s-shootings-in-swedenIn the 306 confirmed shooting incidents during 2017 there were 41 deaths and 135 instances of injury. July had by far the highest number of injuries from shootings – 25 compared to the next highest which was 16 in both September and October.
Lol, what.
As a Swede I don't have the right to walk around with murder tools, and I'm very happy about that. Hmm, when was our last mass shooting again...
1. I said mass shootings. You know, the kind America has every other day.
2. The shootings we do have in Sweden suck, but they are pretty much exclusively between criminal gangs shooting at each other. Someone just opening fire into a crowd of innocents (you know, like what happens in America every other day) is not a thing here.
That is how our bill of rights work. We are given rights. They are our naturally. It's an important event of our laws.Lol, what.
As a Swede I don't have the right to walk around with murder tools, and I'm very happy about that. Hmm, when was our last mass shooting again...
That is how our bill of rights work. We are given rights. They are our naturally. It's an important event of our laws.
Things work differently in Sweden which is fine, but we aren't talking about Sweden, are we?
Americans have a different idea of what an "improved society" is. Criminalizing all citizens and taking away a right becuase a small amount of people commit a crime is not a popular idea in America.We also have rights. But when some right is deemed damaging, we change that law to improve our society. That's how societies evolve and improve.
I feel like this story got way too much exposure.
Must have been a slow news week.
You can tell by how it got buried once the city council cut story broke out.