ambris:

redhead4eyes:

paper-storm:

Australian comedian Jim Jefferies points out the ridiculousness of American pro-gun arguments. x x

Welp

EXACTLY

This is actually a very weak argument. 

Australia never banned all guns. They only banned semi-automatic rifles and shotguns, and pump action shotguns. Theses guns can still be obtained with a special license. For example, a license for animal culling. 

Also, this is always the argument that “why isn’t the US like island nations with smaller populations, lower levels of income inequality and a more homogeneous population that have always had low crime rates and more reasonable laws regarding drugs and incarceration.” 

Because we are not.  

But America could be like countries that have large numbers of guns per person like Canada, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland and Finland. First-world countries with large numbers of guns. But, they also have lower levels of income inequality, mental illness, unemployment, crime and also with humane laws and criminal justice systems. Low inequality and humane laws lead to lower instances of crime and mental illness. 

But a universal gun ban would make America more like Mexico. Private citizens cannot own guns but that does not stop the narcos from getting them. In Mexico, only the drug gangs have guns as do the crooked politicians and police forces that are in the gangs’s pockets. After all, the 43 Iguala students were rounded up by the police to be murdered. 

I am not a Republican or a Democrat. They are two halves of the same party. And this comedian is proof that rich liberals are the same as rich conservatives. A bunch of rich bastards that live in gated communities that are always patrolled by the police because they don’t have to work that hard while serving the class that they have always existed to serve. They never have to deal with the harsh realities that face working class people.

Its not just the 2nd Amendment that makes me believe that I should be able to own my old World War II era rifle and my two pistols. Karl Marx himself said that the working class should be armed and organized, and if the government, bought and paid for by the oppressive bourgeois ruling class, should attempt to take these weapons away, they should be resisted with all force. Of course, Brother Marx took it a step further and extended that right to artillery. 

As a working class American living in a working class neighborhood, I know the terror of having some weirdo beating on your door at 1:30 in the morning. Knowing that the police are minutes away and that door might only last seconds against a determined assault. I have had meth heads approach me in the parking lot of stores. I have had psycho red necks threaten to kill me for being bi sexual. I have the right to protect myself and anyone else I know from being beaten, raped and/or murdered. 

If the fucking Ku Klux terrorists can have guns I want one too so I can give them the fight they think they will win. 

When I got my concealed-carry permit, I had to prove that I had no overt mental illnesses on my medical records and that I had no criminal record. I proved that I could safely and sanely use, store and maintain a firearm. And that I knew the laws of the state I live in and that the permit and the second amendment are NOT a licenses to kill. 

I don’t want to kill anyone, but I sure as hell don’t want to die. Just the idea of having to take another human life even in the defense of my own makes me sick to my stomach.