Foriegn Influence for Gun Control?

[learningman]

This morning while doing some reading on the horrible shooting at VT I came acrossed an article on the reaction's of the "world". They all seemed to echo the same sentiment that if the US had tougher gun laws we wouldn't have the problems we have today. A thought popped into my head while reading this article, do you think that future political and economic pressure from other contries will eventually bring about stiffer gun laws. In todays world it seems that every "major" contry is linked economically, and one's political situation has some effect on other contries political environment. You look at Britian, Canada, and Australia, they all have very strict gun laws and they all complain about our apparent"lack" of control. Now I personally give two squirt's of the yellow stuff less about what other contries feel about gun control in their own country, but do think it's possible that an alliance of these locked down state's could one day have enough pull to lead to tougher gun laws here in the States? Even the mighty US depends on it's allies to a degree to survive in todays world. What are your thought's?

 

[vtoddball]

Hope not

I saw some of these articles. Some were even blaming Charlton Heston personally for the shooting. They also completely misinterpreted the Second Amendment as referring to militias, not individuals. Nobody can really be surprised. Most Europeans haven't tasted real freedom in years. Cameras everywhere, no right to defend oneself, calls for cooking knives to be rounded so the untrustworthy public doesn't misuse them....

What scares me is that we already have instances of OUR Supreme Court citing international and foreign law when deciding cases. Being a sovereign nation, and a free one, there is no justification for using the laws/precedents of other countries to interpret ours. Especially when other countries have such a long history of the subjugation of their peoples.

 

[SWC Bonfire]

My thoughts are that if we could somehow learn from this and other tragedies and more people will realize that we aren't going to be able to blindly entrust our total security to others any longer.

Due to massive sensationalism and around the clock "news" coverage, something will come about from this event. Either we arm and seek to responsibly defend ourselves in a massive movement across the country, or we fall further into the delusion that someone else will make us feel safe.

If everyone in this country was instructed in proficiency with firearms (with conscientious objection, of course), then we would be seen as a country willing to protect our freedoms and not relying on a false sense of security. This could also be a visible and concrete sign to those who would attack our country, that we are peaceable people but will defend ourselves if provoked.