The gun debate in this country has clearly gone out of control on the
right side of the political spectrum. This is what happens when
individuals who feel strongly about their second amendment rights are met
with possible curtails of the guns they can buy. Why have these people
been feeling so scared that the government (namely the Obama
administration) is coming to take away all guns? To me it is because the
media have been playing this issue in a way that promotes fear that the
second amendment will be disregarded, which obviously cannot happen
legally but nonetheless they are certain it will happen. I’m speaking
about fox news of course. The statements they have been saying lately
about the tyrannical ways of President Obama and how his actions of trying
to ban assault rifles, limiting high capacity magazines, and having
comprehensive background checks are just like the actions of Stalin and
Hitler when the two took away guns from its citizens to keep them from
revolting against the government. This is just not true, flat out. Obama
is not at all a tyrant. The definition of a tyrant is a leader who
exercises power in a cruel way that often oppresses their people. How has
Obama oppressed any one of the citizens of the United States? He hasn’t
taken away all of the guns therefore he hasn’t infringed on the rights of
the American people to keep and bear arms, which was originally brought to
ensure citizens abilities to organize militias, which obviously isn’t
necessary today.
What is the point of having an assault rifle? Why should an
individual citizen need to have one? The answer I have been hearing
is so the American people can protect themselves against the
possibility of tyranny, but what tyranny are they referring too? How
can we allow these military style weapons be allowed on the streets
solely because of a hypothetical tyrannical government that is
growing in the United States? Obama is not a tyrant. Anyone who says
that is paranoid and ill informed and is watching fox news way too
much. It's insulting to the office of the president to say that just
because they man in office is of a different party, that when he
wants to enact a policy that one doesn’t disagree with, he is a
tyrant similar to Hitler and Stalin