Originally Posted by
Larkspeed
I am going to be brutally honest with my opinion in this post so if I offend anyone you have my apologies in advance.
American gun supporters keep saying things like hunting and shooting are just part of our heritage and Americans want to hold on to that heritage.
Sorry but that's a load of crap.
I have been to 48 of the 50 US states (never been to Hawaii or Alaska) and I have met and spoken to thousands of Americans.
The vast majority of Americans are nice respectable people that are willing to help their fellow man and go hunting and shooting because they can but would not care one little bit if gun laws got tightened up and they could not do it any more, they would just find some other way to pass their leisure time.
Then you have the other group of Americans, the card carrying NRA member, narrow minded, the constitutions says this, it's my right, guns don't kill people, redneck idiots that put up all the stink about gun control in the US. These people are actually in the minority.
Unfortunately it's that minority that keeps getting into enough positions of power to effectively block any form of common sense gun control from coming into force.
The only state I can see that needs lax gun laws is Alaska simply because up there guns are not a way of life, they are a necessity of it.