BADUNAME27
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In other venues when this subject is brought up a dividing line typically forms rather quickly. You have "All guns are evil" on one side and "from my cold dead hands" on the other. The "Charlton Heston" types rant away with things like "Hippies, drug addicts, Liberal Scum, HOMOS, Man-hating-bull dykes, bad guys, rapists, murderers, and constitutional rights” while the angry little liberals claim we are all nuisances who blow it all out of proportion so that we can cling to our assault rifles as we hide in the damp, dark corners of our gun vaults and masturbate to pictures from the latest Guns/Ammo issue.
(A little melodramatic but you get the idea.)
I offer a little different view for consideration based on personal experiences over the last 2 years and 9 months of my life. Here is a first person account of what lawlessness and a government’s restriction/ban of firearms ownership/use brings.
I work in Iraq as a security contractor. I'll have been here almost three years before I go home for good. We have a subcontractor that provides the EDDT (Explosive Dog Detection Team) assets we require. These K-9 handlers are largely (almost exclusively) pooled from active duty S. African police officers. (so much in fact that the S. African government has tried to pass legislation to prevent policeman from working in Iraq as contractors cause they were losing their active duty force back home due to the financial opportunity here)
In the time that I've been here SIX of these men have had to go home on emergency leave because their homes were broken into and their wives were raped; sometimes by groups of men. Six times in 2.5 years.
It can take 24-96 hours to get out of Iraq depending on weather, threat conditions, and/or whether the airport is even open. It’s about another 15-20 hours to get back to S. Africa once you go wheels up from BIAP (Baghdad International Airport).
Imagine all the things that can run through a man's mind during that idle time.
The S. African laws make it a challenge for citizens to own/possess/use a firearm. As a reminder, these men/women are former S. African police and most of them don't own a firearm. Some of the ones that do are in violation of the law and would be subject to harsh punishment if discovered. Yet you can count on the bad guys there to have them.
Some of our medics here use S. Africa’s gun violence as a petri dish. They acquire film footage, photographs, and documentation all taken from S. African trauma centers and hospitals to further train/educate themselves on the treatment of gunshot wounds. A few have even gone to S. Africa to work internships with the hospitals to gain hands on experience.
Were not talking 4 or 5 shootings per week, sometimes it’s as high as over a hundred per evening.
I've gotten a little off track here and I apologize. My point is if anyone really believes that taking all our guns away or regulating it down to where it isn’t feasible to own one is the answer you’re suffering from a serious case of spectator's arrogance and you need to open your eyes. Going down this path only seals our fate and our doom.
America is in the beginning stages of the same yeast infection that other nations are suffering from; great Brittan, Australia, and S. Africa are all dealing with this. It's a crystal ball into our destruction. At some point it will reach a state of critical mass and a chain reaction will start that will go out of control. It’s inevitable.
In 1775 it took a 3% tax increase for the British crown to learn how a society responds when they are stripped of their dignity and their noses are rubbed in it. In early 20th century Europe this cause and effect was again demonstrated when Austria annexed a little Serbian province called Bosnia. By the time that little lesson was over, an estimated 16 million people were dead.
Where we are now on this time line of history repeating itself is debatable, but make no mistake the seeds are being planted and we stand upon fertile soil that is ripe for it to happen again.
(A little melodramatic but you get the idea.)
I offer a little different view for consideration based on personal experiences over the last 2 years and 9 months of my life. Here is a first person account of what lawlessness and a government’s restriction/ban of firearms ownership/use brings.
I work in Iraq as a security contractor. I'll have been here almost three years before I go home for good. We have a subcontractor that provides the EDDT (Explosive Dog Detection Team) assets we require. These K-9 handlers are largely (almost exclusively) pooled from active duty S. African police officers. (so much in fact that the S. African government has tried to pass legislation to prevent policeman from working in Iraq as contractors cause they were losing their active duty force back home due to the financial opportunity here)
In the time that I've been here SIX of these men have had to go home on emergency leave because their homes were broken into and their wives were raped; sometimes by groups of men. Six times in 2.5 years.
It can take 24-96 hours to get out of Iraq depending on weather, threat conditions, and/or whether the airport is even open. It’s about another 15-20 hours to get back to S. Africa once you go wheels up from BIAP (Baghdad International Airport).
Imagine all the things that can run through a man's mind during that idle time.
The S. African laws make it a challenge for citizens to own/possess/use a firearm. As a reminder, these men/women are former S. African police and most of them don't own a firearm. Some of the ones that do are in violation of the law and would be subject to harsh punishment if discovered. Yet you can count on the bad guys there to have them.
Some of our medics here use S. Africa’s gun violence as a petri dish. They acquire film footage, photographs, and documentation all taken from S. African trauma centers and hospitals to further train/educate themselves on the treatment of gunshot wounds. A few have even gone to S. Africa to work internships with the hospitals to gain hands on experience.
Were not talking 4 or 5 shootings per week, sometimes it’s as high as over a hundred per evening.
I've gotten a little off track here and I apologize. My point is if anyone really believes that taking all our guns away or regulating it down to where it isn’t feasible to own one is the answer you’re suffering from a serious case of spectator's arrogance and you need to open your eyes. Going down this path only seals our fate and our doom.
America is in the beginning stages of the same yeast infection that other nations are suffering from; great Brittan, Australia, and S. Africa are all dealing with this. It's a crystal ball into our destruction. At some point it will reach a state of critical mass and a chain reaction will start that will go out of control. It’s inevitable.
In 1775 it took a 3% tax increase for the British crown to learn how a society responds when they are stripped of their dignity and their noses are rubbed in it. In early 20th century Europe this cause and effect was again demonstrated when Austria annexed a little Serbian province called Bosnia. By the time that little lesson was over, an estimated 16 million people were dead.
Where we are now on this time line of history repeating itself is debatable, but make no mistake the seeds are being planted and we stand upon fertile soil that is ripe for it to happen again.
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