Why do Americans love guns so much?

[blaeey]

Yeah, I know. "socailist government...Hitler... second amendment... jesus christ... everyone should get a gun... criminals don't follow the law.... god bless America"

We get all that shite. It's cultural.
But surely it's common sense that guns kill people, and therefore the more guns in circulation, the more likely you are to get shot?
It's like legalising heroin, because of "freedom", and then wondering why people keep dying. Although, heroin isn't a weapon, so perhaps it isn't as potentially harmful to the freedom of everyone else.

[han]

Yeah, I know. "socailist government...Hitler... second amendment... jesus christ... everyone should get a gun... criminals don't follow the law.... god bless America"

We get all that shite. It's cultural.
But surely it's common sense that guns kill people, and therefore the more guns in circulation, the more likely you are to get shot?
It's like legalising heroin, because of "freedom", and then wondering why people keep dying. Although, heroin isn't a weapon, so perhaps it isn't as potentially harmful to the freedom of everyone else.

I don't know about "americans". But White Americans love guns because they live in a multicultural hell and need to protect themselves.

[bothan]

In my opinion some americans try to hold on to the past and follow the american constitution with unconditional love when really they need to sit down as a country and do something and scrap the constitution and make a new one to suit modern times

[corcoran42]

I'm sure the vast majority don't.
But we think we can defend our selves from our own lack of faith and insecurities.
Freedom is a state of heart and mind.
All nations are founded upon a wealth and ideologically driven treacherous conquest via the use of pervading powers. (Which sets a cultural precedence that leaves us fighting our demons for many years. So the precedence of capitalism, guns, freedom and trade route wars is not great)

The devils allowed to run free and then chastised by an Old testament style system.
Considering Orthodox Jews hold dominions there it's no wonder. (Not that all Jews are evil or anything, it's just the devil seems to have worked through that culture at least since the era of Moses 3500 years ago)
Nearly every pervading empirical power the earth has known repelled the Jews to rise up against Judea or their own ignorance, building false empires only to become evil in the process of doing evil. These doods have been bankrolling wars, broken homes and broken minds for thousands of years.
(Chaos and Terrorists on trial - The Spanish inquisition all over again)
The decline of the Roman Empire led to the Spanish Inquisition > People deluded by heretics accusing people of being heretics, which lead to the worst torture of human beings imaginable.

Evil has dominions.
Zionists > capitalism > moral and philosophical relativistic dominion/false god > neo-cons acting on the philosophies of relativist nihilists like Leo Strauss Imposed as narsisistic local and foreign policy more akin to the Borg out of Star Trek > mechanisation > departmentalisation > Dehumanisation > Eugenics > cops carrying out entrapment stings which affects free will ~ vital to humanity > hubris, advocacy of scorning and scoffing by the likes of Jerry Springer.
http://dialoginternational.typepad.com/dialog_international/2006/03/the_weimar_dias_1.html

[francisco]

Personal insecurity fed by marketing from the gun industry. They think owning a gun turns them from a snivelling nobody to a superhero. In fact it just turns them into a snivelling nobody with a gun. A high proportion of shootings in America are with the victim's own gun, either by accident or because they've threatened someone who's disarmed them and shot them. Unfortunately there's no effective anti-gun lobby to put adverts on TV saying: Wanna get shot? Buy a gun.

[cadby]

simply!!! because it's fun as HELL!!! when you RAMBO IT!!!!

[jabin20]

What Koos de la Rey said...plus it's fun to go to the shooting range.

[aingeni]

Why do I love guns? Because ultimately, they mean freedom to me. Part of the joy I get out of owning and shooting them is because I am free to do so. It's a right restricted to so many around the world.

And ultimately, I know that if our gov't gets out of control, many millions of Americans have the means to put it down. Again, something most of the rest of the world cannot do.

Does this result in more gun crime and random gun violence? Absolutely. I fully confess that. But it doesn't necessarily equate to more violent crime. Nations with strict gun control like the UK, Sweden, France and Canada have high rates of violent crime than the USA. See the link.

And if private gun ownership prevents our government from turning against us, as so many other governments around the world have in the last 100 years, than it's completely worth it.

If you say it couldn't possibly happen here, that's EXACTLY what the Jews said as they boarded the trains to the "resettlement camps." It's what Americans said even as many thousands of folks were sent off to imprisonment camps for the crime of being of Japanese descent.

[gabrielo19]

Your General Gage was of the same opinion, yet he had no intention of giving up his while he was here.
If an indelible impression was made, twas you who made it.

Only the wicked say "Trust me".
When you both have a "Hog-Leg" on your hip ... honesty is "subaudition".