Owning A Gun Is Not Required — It’s An Excuse.
I live in Australia where I can’t own a gun. We haven’t been able to buy guns to protect our families since the 1990’s and the Port Arthur Massacre.
Some of my friends in the USA say they need a gun to protect their family. My questions to them about the need for guns are as follows:
What if you didn’t need a gun to protect your family?
In Australia, I don’t have a gun to protect my family. We can protect ourselves through martial arts if we must, but giving guns out is just too dangerous. Guns kill people in a moment — there’s no time to rethink your decision.
We don’t want our children growing up and thinking that gun ownership is the answer to our problems.
Walking down the street to blow someone’s head off because you had a small disagreement doesn’t make sense in our way of life.
There’s protecting your family and then there are excuses for owning a gun which make zero sense. In fact, there’s no logical answer to owning a gun other than it should be a choice. I think that choice has proven to be something we can’t rely on people to make for themselves.
Do we give people more freedom while simultaneously killing them? Is this false idea of freedom more important than being…
