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Originally posted by alexanderao
It's not just the right to own guns. It's personal liberties in general and an overarching "don't tread on me" attitude. After all, that's how our country was founded; the colonists were tired of having their lives restricted. Thus, it makes a lot of sense that many Americans feel very strongly about personal freedoms. Remember how angry people got when Edward Snowden exposed the NSA? That's because people feel that they have a right to privacy. Many people also believe that they have a right to bear arms.
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yes let's just go back to the way the colonists did things... they had the best ideas, like showering once a month and shooting each other in duels to solve arguments
laws needs to change in order to reflect the times. we did not have semi automatic weapons capable of firing 50 bullets in the matter of seconds in the 1700s, why are we as a society so stuck to what they came up with when they didn't even know how to practice proper personal hygiene, let alone govern people correctly