UK vs. USA: Guns

When America suffers mass shootings, killing innocent children, people want restrictions on gun ownership. If dangerous people can’t access guns, mass shootings would never happen. But many gun owners don’t want restrictions.

 

Why is easy access to guns more important than the safety of your nation’s children? I can’t fathom how that managed to become the priority.

Yes, every American has the right to carry arms, but every human has the right to life. Surely life is more important than guns? Surely the lives of children are more important than guns?

Besides, restrictions on guns only prevent dangerous people from having them. How is that a bad thing?

In America your constitutional rights are always upheld so the average citizen will never be barred from owning a gun. So if you don’t have to worry about your guns being taken away, why on Earth fight against restrictions that will keep your children alive?

 

In the UK, we have hardly any gun crime and if the police need guns they get them in a timely fashion. Countries with tighter gun restrictions don’t have problems with mass shootings. It’s not a difficult equation. Valuing life shouldn’t be so controversial.

 

Just a side note, when talk of restrictions does come up, the focus is always on disabled people. This does the disabled a disservice: it links disability with danger and that, frankly, is unfair and unjust. Disability doesn’t automatically entail bad decision making. Plus many people who commit heinous crimes are unnoticed by the mental health services. Barring disabled people from guns would restrict a constitutional right from safe people instead of preventing dangerous people from owning guns.