So, if violence with guns has fallen so much and we should all be so proud about it...

[Humanist_Activist]

25. Well, that's just not true, I'll agree with you there, but I certainly don't view my view as...

extreme, while it is a minority view in this country, even among the pro-gun control movement.

Honestly, I'm mystified by the gun culture in this country, its scary, overly paranoid, and prone to flights of fancy and hyperbole.

You know, its easy to look at countries around the world where civil rights are violated, and you know what generally isn't mentioned? The right to possess or purchase firearms. Makes no sense to compare to any other civil right. Violating free speech, freedom of movement, freedom of religion, there are no nations with the lack of those freedoms I want to live in, but the UK, Australia, Canada, etc. why not? They don't seem to be dystopian hellholes nor autocratic, oppressive governments, yet they have much stricter gun control(up to gun bans) on many types of firearms. Are they perfect? No of course not, but they are democratic.

So as soon as I hear someone drone on and on about their "sacred" 2A rights, I have a really difficult time taking them seriously, for while the United States does have a Second Amendment, its seems anachronistic at this point and counterproductive, at least in my opinion.