You are hiding behind the 2nd. We have many things in our formative years which are important to us at the time but as we grow and develop we realise that those thing have a time and a place and we forsake them as our knowledge and understanding grows.
The 2nd amendment is preventing the US from becoming a safe place to live as you talk of freedom -- what about the freedom of someone who chooses not to carry a firearm to be free of being surrounded by people carrying deadly weapons? Why are they not free to be in a place where people don't have the instant ability to kill them?
You need to give your country a chance to grow.
"You can take away all the guns you want, but that doesn't solve the problem of the nutjobs."
Very true. You just take away a very, very efficient way for these nutjobs to administer death.
You people apparently have no interest in fixing your country.
The quotes refer to a different time, a different era.
You country is broken and innocent people are suffering because of it. Become civilised.
Their job is to make the content available to me.
If that means using a closed standard that is easily accessible to all, so be it.
Sure I would rather they use open standards but first and foremost they must make it available to me, so this is a good (hopefully temporary) move.
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You are hiding behind the 2nd. We have many things in our formative years which are important to us at the time but as we grow and develop we realise that those thing have a time and a place and we forsake them as our knowledge and understanding grows. The 2nd amendment is preventing the US from becoming a safe place to live as you talk of freedom -- what about the freedom of someone who chooses not to carry a firearm to be free of being surrounded by people carrying deadly weapons? Why are they not free to be in a place where people don't have the instant ability to kill them? You need to give your country a chance to grow.
"You can take away all the guns you want, but that doesn't solve the problem of the nutjobs." Very true. You just take away a very, very efficient way for these nutjobs to administer death.
You people apparently have no interest in fixing your country. The quotes refer to a different time, a different era. You country is broken and innocent people are suffering because of it. Become civilised.
Their job is to make the content available to me. If that means using a closed standard that is easily accessible to all, so be it. Sure I would rather they use open standards but first and foremost they must make it available to me, so this is a good (hopefully temporary) move.
.. And that's why we need the BBC and thats why I'm happy to pay the license fee.
This.