A serf lives by the government, a citizen if free to choose how they live. Without a way to defend your freedoms, you no longer have a choice.
Picture yourself in Venezuela, Congo, Iraq or Afghanistan- then answer that question.
A lot of you people on the left live in a bubble, you have no clue what really goes on in the world. You just want your safe space preserved like sucking on your mothers tits and you are willing to give up whatever it takes.
I'm perfectly free thanks. I think you've become confused along the way - if I lived in one of those countries you mention I may well feel the need to defend myself. As it happens I don't feel the need to defend myself in that way. I have had problems with a few guys over here since I was a kid and we've sorted it by fighting. I had a fist fight with two guys in Regents Street in central London in broad daylight once, because one had assaulted my girlfriend. No guns drawn and the police waved me away as he pulled the broken teeth out of the guy's throat.
Very very few people here have guns and so nobody feels the need to have one. As it happens, I do own a shotgun but it is locked in a gun safe 99% of the time and I shoot clays with it. I'm one of the only people I know in my daily life who possesses a gun and i had to be intensively vetted, even to the extent where they checked my social media accounts for signs of extreme beliefs.
I know of nobody with a hand gun or rifle in the UK. It is extremely rare.
As a result we don't have mass shootings, or rather we haven't since they tightened up the laws years ago. Actually, Andy Murray was present for the last mass shooting in the UK when he was a baby in Dunblane about 30 years ago. Can't remember the exact date. We had another in hungerford around the same time. None since then. Nobody here can understand your preoccupation with guns.
Because guns are so rare, the police are not paranoid. Again, we are shocked when we see US police draw their weapons because some guy questions why he's been arrested - it seems to me that you don't really have that much freedom because you fear your police and I'm not surprised you do. The police are there to protect and serve, not pull hand guns on you.
I think you've become brainwashed. The more guns there are, the more guns you feel you need. I find it unbelievable that you actually train elementary school teachers to use guns. Violence begets violence it seems. Your answer to gun violence - get more guns! It would be laughable if it wasn't so sad.
Somehow, you have learned to equate gun ownership with freedom. That's a false connection. It DOES suggest that you'd be willing to use your weapons to defend your right to own weapons. That indicates to me that you live in an EXTREMELY unstable and paranoid society. When these rights are challenged many of you guys react with really extreme outrage. It is bizarre to everybody here.
