Comments by "Life\x27s Adventures" (@bigphillyed) on "Thousands March to End Gun Violence | NYT" video.

Its great to see young Americans exercising their 1st amendment right to "Free Speech". Just as it is wonderfully beautiful when law abiding citizens protect and exercise their 2nd Amendment rights. This is what makes America great! Gun owners are not infringing upon your right to assembly and free speech, maybe you all should try not infringing on our rights to to defend and protect ourselves, our family and our country. Gun reform and gun restrictions will not accomplish what you seek, I promise you that, and history has already shown us that. Because the children and their generation do not want to make changes in their own subculture is why these events continue to happen. Not once in your protest did we hear about what you are going to do. All you are doing is demanding action from others. Maybe if you stood up, marched, protested and told the world what you were going to do maybe everyone would support you. I didn't hear anything about anti-bullying, I didn't hear anything about your plans to address mental health, I did not hear anything from you about changes to schools. You children must understand that gun control alone will not do anything to stop the violence. It will take a change in everything we all do to stop the violence. Gun owners we agree to background checks, we agree about private sales issues, and the majority of law abiding gun owners do not disagree with some of the common sense gun law changes. But without children coming together and addressing school bullying, and the educational system addressing mental illness any changes will simply be a waste of time and effort. Controlling guns only takes the tool away from the angry crazy person, it doesn't stop or prevent what they want to do. Preventing this person from being angry at the world in the beginning is the solution to the problem, restricting guns to those people that shouldn't have them is a measure to insure it never happens. You wanna make a positive change in the country and the world, then work with the adults in the gun world and come together as a group and make positive changes. Only then will the violence stop.
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D.M.S. First of all let's say for the sake of debate, that all Americans believe their should be an assault weapons ban. Tell me what the legal definition of "assault weapon" would be? How do we right the law without first identifying what it is we are banning? So tell me what exactly is an assault rifle? By the way the founding fathers intended for the population to be able to arm themselves with the same weapons that the government or any other government would have. That being said, that is why automatic firearms are still legal, and will be further legal sooner or later. You all talk of "military styled weapons" well doesn't the government have them? If that's the case then the people should be able to have correct?
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These children, will grow up, and they will realize that what they once thought was an answer to a problem is not the right answer to the problem. So pro 2A people are not worried at all about these children voting. And of the students who will be of age to vote, only half will vote. As voting in the youth has been falling over the years.
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Eva but that still doesn't answer the question as to which countries your talking about. There are only a few countries where citizens cannot buy guns, and most of them are not very good places to live. Next I sense your not even American, so why are you trying to debate something you know so little about.
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Izzy Graze that doesn't answer the questions I asked you. Your lack of knowledge regarding guns is what blinds you from the truth. I ask a favor of you. I want you to go to a gun range that rents different guns. Tell them your a liberal, or just plain old anti gun and that you want to see and understand the difference in guns. Because in reality there is no difference between a hunting rifle shotgun, handgun or an ar-15. Your also telling me that people shouldn't be allowed to carry handguns to protect themselves? So what do people do when they are threatened by a criminal with a knife or a gun? I wish I could take you to the range and show and explain it all to you, because the liberal media has blinded you.
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Keren Okitaloshima it's not that we are a violent society, we have are manly sports just like every other country. We have criminal gang problems like most major developed countries, I would like to say the majority of our gun problems are in big cities. Not that their isn't gun violence in rural areas of America. Their is crime every were in the world, France, especially Paris is and has had their fair share of crime. Some Americans, those being most gun owners have this, "I will not be a victim mentality' others like veterans and just ordinary law abiding citizens would rather be safe then sorry by owning guns. Also firearms are an essential part of our culture, and our nation's constitution grants all Americans the God given rights to own and bear arms. We never use to have gun problems until the last 10 - 15 years, and I think most of the increase is from mentally ill people. Now I am not saying we give guns to really really crazy people, but someone with depression can easily get a gun. And that is where 70% of our gun deaths come from is suicide. Which is usually in the average of a out 35,000 people per year. After that is crim,drug and gang related. Less then .5% are committed by a legal law abiding citizen. What is to blame? Me personally I think 20 years ago children lost the respect for life and treating people nicely. I know growing up as a kid bullying was just starting to become a thing. Now in American schools, someone is being bullied every second of every school day. It drives people to the breaking point. And these children having to deal with this have no where to go for help. America's mental health system is one of the worst in the world. Here people are labeled and judged because they have some type of mental health issue, so what happens a lot goes untreated until an incident pushes them over the edge. Believe me you think we are the most powerful country, but we are far from it. We used to be a great nation, not anymore, we cannot feed our hungry, house are homeless, educate our children or protect ourselves from evil people from around the world. All that being said, France is also far from mass shootings and other terrorist events. Your tight gun laws, do not stop the gun violence, and Paris has an extremely out of control crime problem right now. Each nation has it's own set of problems, caused by many different issues. Believe me, if people didn't have guns here readily available it would be much worst. Evil people would be driving cars and trucks down pedestrian walkways every weekend, evil people would be doing bombing like we had in Austin, Texas. Humans now a days are just evil, they ,mostly only care for themselves, they take revenge over morals, they label everyone else, they hate what doesn't agree to their opinion and politics are driving a divider through everyone. The world is becoming to populated, food is getting scarce, refugees from all corners of the world, nations are at the end of their resources. Life isn't easy anymore, it's competitive and everyone is fighting to survive. This is all why I lettt the 5th biggest city in America where I was born and raised and lived for 35 years. The other 10 years I have spent travelling the world, so I have seen some of the best and a lot of the worst this world offers. No country is perfect, no group of people are perfect, and the worst part is we can never get along with each other.
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D.M.S. after all this discussion and debate, most of the problems come down to people like you not understanding anything about firearms. I have asked you once already, give me a legal definition of "assault rifle"? Explain to me the difference between a AR-15 and a Block 19. Why is one worst then the other in your eyes? In the end, the 2nd Amendment gives me the right to own any gun and as many as I want. I do not need a reason, and my rights are not infringed on or taken away because your feelings about guns are negative. Until such time as US Congress ratifies the 2nd Amendment nothing you or any child protesting says matters. Tired of saying the same thing to you. Bottom line your feelings do not exceed my rights.
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ojibwa E You are so wrong another misguided anti-gun nut. Colt didn't just make fully auto M16, they also made semi-automatic AR-15's and still do. Also fullymmautomatic rifles are legal tommown as a civilian if you go through the ATF. Same as suppressor, short barreled rifles, short barreled shotguns and other dangerous arms. In fact I have one full auto M16, a couple suppressors and a couple AR-15's. All completely legal, and the tax stamps approved for everyone that I own. They are called class 3 firearms, and they are still protected by the 2nd amendment but I have to follow the NFA and ATF laws governing those firearms.... I really wish all you anti-gun people would take a few hours to really learn about guns before you condemn them, cause all of you are clueless and are just making assumptions.
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No one will discuss that because it doesnt fit there anti-gun narrative.
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The NRA has been around so long, that it will never go anywhere. It is member driven and member paid for, its not going anywhere. This whole anti-nra only makes them more powerful, why? Because now you all have alienated the common law abiding gun owner who never supported the NRA like myself. Now we have to join the nra just to defend our second amendment rights. All these liberals and children did with all this protesting against guns and the nra is made us stronger.
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The irony of these children, they want the want to infringe on the rights of gun owners by banning firearms, and increasing the purchase age to 21 further infringing on young Americans rights. Yet, Parkland High School implements a new safety policy requiring all back packs be clear allowing all contents to be visible. Yet these same children trampling on the 2nd Amendment say these school bags infringe on their rights to free speech and privacy. Since when did the constitution say you had a right not to carry a visible school bag? So it's ok for these children to protest guns and the BRA but adults cannot make policy to protect them by insuring all bags are clear and visible? Ironny?
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First of all if your going to try and make an opinion on a god given right, I think you should have a lot more sense then calling guns, "your hobby". They are not hobbies, they are firearms, a form of defense against evil and a tyrannical government. Which is close to what you want... Children's lives are important, so important we should be finding solutions to mass shootings immediately not debating about taking guns away. Wasting your time battling guns is not very efficient management. Demand mental health reform, demand school security law changes, demand proper training for law enforcement, school officials and children, demand federal hate laws for bullying.
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Eva open minded about what? You mention countries that people cannot have guns, which countries do not have guns? Please enlighten us to which you talk about. Because I will bet any countries you mention are either communist countries, or countries that have such high crime and violence rate that you couldn't even compare them to the US.
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Eva well Eva as usual the anti-gun people are so wrong again. Belgium has tight gun control, but as most countries owning a shotgun and rifle is legal in Belgium, also ironic strict gun control yet the Paris Attackers got their guns in Brussels, hmm seems your gun control laws didn't prevent a mass shooting. Germany is strict but gun ownership is still legal, in fact Germany is 4th in legal guns. Spain allows private ownership of rifles and shotguns for the purpose of sport or hunting. United Kingdom also allows shotguns and rifles for legal use in sporting and hunting. France I'm not even gonna both with as we see their gun control does zero to stop mass shooting Paris and even yesterday an attack. So there is your answer gun control does not work. It's nice for you to dream for it. Yes, as a citizen of another country it's nice to be concerned about children from another country. But your making editorial com,nets about something you know nothing about. All those countries you mention have a very large difference then us. Our constitution makes owning a game a right, all those other countries do not have gun ownership in their constitutions. So they are not afforded the right of ownership, it is a privilege. So until Americans find a way to ratify the 2nd Amendment gun ownership and guns will never go anywhere.
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You need to really get out more and see the world. AR-15's are for sport competition and target shooting, and in some instances hunting. Honestly, the AR-15 is not a great home defense gun, but it is a great defense gun against a tyrannical government. By the way, a shotgun is more deadly in a mass shooting then anything else, but I do not see any of the anti-gun people begging to ban shotguns? Wonder why that is? Maybe because they arent all black, dont have pistol grips, blah blah blah. No one said that guns trump childrens lives, but banning guns is not the only answer. So until such time Congress ratifies the 2nd amendment find another way to prevent shootings.
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Izzy Graze No... hunters need guns, not a hobby a way of feeding yourself. Competitors they use a gun as a tool not as a hobby. Millions of people use guns for self defense not a hobby, thousands of police use guns as a tool to enforce the law. Militaries use guns to defend nations not as a hobby. Are you catching the drift? You Are just so narrow minded and blind that all you see is the gun, you do not see the other issues at hand. Do you honestly thin the gun carries all the weight of parkland Florida? No it doesn't, in fact it carriers the smallest percentage of responsibility for that shooting. As a gun owner, veteran and a previous law enforcement officer I can tell you that ridding guns is the least of the worries. As little as twenty years ago this mass shooting was not an issue, so why now? Why all of a sudden is mass shootings trending? Did they gun change? No. So what changed? As yourself this. But until such time as all you anti-gun people ratify the 2nd amendment then you better find other ways to prevent mass shootings. I don't know like maybe addressing mental health, school security guidelines, and other laws that could have prevented this shooting. I especially have an idea, mandate that any and all bullying is a federal hate crime and punishable by a minimum of one year incarceration at a juvenile center. How about that, we can enact that law immediately, protecting hundreds of thousand children almost over night. Yet I do not see any anti-gun people happy about that.
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Let me ask you this? What does AR-15 mean? What is an AR-15? How is an AR-15 any different then an M1, or m14 or a Mini 14, or a bennali m2 or Glock 19? Please tell me what the differences are?
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garyography first, there is no other country in the world that has a constitution that makes the bearing of arms a god given right. I am a veteran who has fought for my country to protect each and every right afforded by the constitution. If the right to bear arms was not in the constitution and law makers banned or restricted them then I would have a choice. Secondly most European countries and especially the UK have higher violent crime rates the we do, ie fights, assault with a weapon per capita. In fact isn't the UK in an acid attack alert, isn't the UK government making and taking extreme measures to prevent them? What about the community guns that are passed around to whoever needs it in England? Ironic that you bring up Chicago, the perfect example of gun control not working. Chicago has the toughest gun laws in our country, yet the have the highest murder rate, please explain that. What part of what I say is incorrect? And what does religion have to do with anything? Are you trying to tell me that Europe doesn't have gun violence? Look at France, some of the tightest gun laws in the EU yet they just had another mass shooting this weekend. What about the Paris shootings where hundreds were killed or injured? Where dis the guns from that co,e from? They came from Brussels, where the most strict gun laws in Europe are. Just because you ban firearms, doesn't mean they disappear. And if the US did ban them they would have to pay people to turn them over, let's see 360 million guns in this country at something like 400 dollars per gun, ummm yeah never gonna be able to afford that. Anyway I am not making excuses, it's our constitutional right to bear arms, so I do not need an excuse. Until such time our Congress and our state governors come up with 75% majority vote to ratify the 2nd Amendment guns are here to stay, period.
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