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It's depressing...... the views of gun ownership in the rest of the world that is.
In the past few days I've been arguing with some Mexicans about gun ownership in their country. I believe that if people were allowed to own GOOD guns such as AR's, Ak's and large caliber handguns, organized crime would think twice about going into homes and taking people who don't pay extortion fees.
In case some of you didn't know, some "cartels" have found a bigger business in demanding extortion fees from ordinary citizens and have made drug trafficking the smaller part of their business. Some people pay extortion fees for homes which they have already payed off(fee per square meter!), fee per vehicle, 20 pesos per week per child to go to PUBLIC school, fee per Kg of meat/tortillas etc. These groups also charge a monthly fees in order to allow businesses to operate and these fees go as far down as to give them a cut from your paycheck even if you're just a general unskilled laborer. These guys also reposes farms as they wish (even if you pay your fees), they also take any chicks with them that they like and bring them back once they're pregnant.
I've been arguing with these people that if the average well behaved citizen had the right to protect their families, their stuff and themselves with adequate weaponry, these thugs would start thinking twice before demanding money for doing nothing. The responses I get are that protection of citizens is the governments obligation and they should be obligated to do it. It's funny how people demand the government to do something they either are incompetent and overwhelmed in doing or clearly show no interest in doing. This is why that place is so ****ed up, people think protection is the governments job even though the authorities always arrive after there are human heads rolling on the ground. People have just accepted this as a way of live, and keep demanding for the government to do something even though they have their hands full.
Listed on their constitution, they have the right to protect their homes, but their government has restricted this right to such a point where only .380/.38 special handguns are allowed as well as shotguns and hunting rifles if you're a member of a club, this is an American liberal's wet dream. According to their government, a .38 special revolver is enough to repeal a criminal attack (lol!), that might be the case in America but it's certainly not the case in Mexico. Out there, when armed thugs arrive to take you away, it's usually 2-3 trucks full of heavily armed men, I'm sorry but a 6 shot revolver is NOT enough to repel an attack from a dozen men armed with real assault rifles no matter how proficient you are.
Listening to idiots like this makes me real glad to live in America, where even in CA we still have a fighting chance of maintaining our dignity against the criminal element. Also makes me even more inclined to not allow antis to get another inch because once our rights are stripped away, future generations won't know what it's like to live with guns being accessible to them and they'll think it's impossible and very dangerous like the current generation of Mexicans believes.
Sorry for the rant, had to vent somewhere, the stupidity, it burns.
In the past few days I've been arguing with some Mexicans about gun ownership in their country. I believe that if people were allowed to own GOOD guns such as AR's, Ak's and large caliber handguns, organized crime would think twice about going into homes and taking people who don't pay extortion fees.
In case some of you didn't know, some "cartels" have found a bigger business in demanding extortion fees from ordinary citizens and have made drug trafficking the smaller part of their business. Some people pay extortion fees for homes which they have already payed off(fee per square meter!), fee per vehicle, 20 pesos per week per child to go to PUBLIC school, fee per Kg of meat/tortillas etc. These groups also charge a monthly fees in order to allow businesses to operate and these fees go as far down as to give them a cut from your paycheck even if you're just a general unskilled laborer. These guys also reposes farms as they wish (even if you pay your fees), they also take any chicks with them that they like and bring them back once they're pregnant.
I've been arguing with these people that if the average well behaved citizen had the right to protect their families, their stuff and themselves with adequate weaponry, these thugs would start thinking twice before demanding money for doing nothing. The responses I get are that protection of citizens is the governments obligation and they should be obligated to do it. It's funny how people demand the government to do something they either are incompetent and overwhelmed in doing or clearly show no interest in doing. This is why that place is so ****ed up, people think protection is the governments job even though the authorities always arrive after there are human heads rolling on the ground. People have just accepted this as a way of live, and keep demanding for the government to do something even though they have their hands full.
Listed on their constitution, they have the right to protect their homes, but their government has restricted this right to such a point where only .380/.38 special handguns are allowed as well as shotguns and hunting rifles if you're a member of a club, this is an American liberal's wet dream. According to their government, a .38 special revolver is enough to repeal a criminal attack (lol!), that might be the case in America but it's certainly not the case in Mexico. Out there, when armed thugs arrive to take you away, it's usually 2-3 trucks full of heavily armed men, I'm sorry but a 6 shot revolver is NOT enough to repel an attack from a dozen men armed with real assault rifles no matter how proficient you are.
Listening to idiots like this makes me real glad to live in America, where even in CA we still have a fighting chance of maintaining our dignity against the criminal element. Also makes me even more inclined to not allow antis to get another inch because once our rights are stripped away, future generations won't know what it's like to live with guns being accessible to them and they'll think it's impossible and very dangerous like the current generation of Mexicans believes.
Sorry for the rant, had to vent somewhere, the stupidity, it burns.
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