Which countries in the world allow citizens to own guns?

The United States is the first and only country in the world where citizens generally have the right to hold guns. The voice against the universal right to hold guns is not new now. Citizens generally have the right to bear arms. Legally, it stems from Article 2 of the Amendment to the Constitution of the United States: A well-managed militia is necessary to ensure the security of a free state, so the people's right to hold and carry weapons shall not be violated. The people are different from the government, and the people's possession and carrying of weapons are different from those of the government's military police. Safeguarding a free state is different from safeguarding the Federation. For more than 2 years, the people have always owned weapons.

People have known the importance of holding a gun when they are fighting wild animals and robbers in the frontier. During the American War of Independence, militia and guerrilla warfare have made people in all states generally realize that the universal right of citizens to bear guns is one of the basic contents of civil rights and state rights, the last means to defend civil rights and state rights, the deterrent and restriction to tyranny, and a steel line of defense to defend freedom and peace. The founders held different views on the peasant uprising. Washington believes that the government should stop these riots and build a stronger government. Jefferson said, "I like a little riot from time to time." "The tree of freedom must always be renewed and evergreen with the blood of patriots and autocratic rulers, which is its natural fertilizer."

in the early days of the founding of the United States, there were two propositions. One was to establish a centralized government composed of a few wealthy elites, which was called federalism, and the other was to establish a central government composed of representatives elected by the whole people and subject to local autonomy, which was called democratism, with Jefferson as the main representative.

the two factions agree on preventing tyranny and tyranny.

At the American Constitutional Convention in p>1787, the opinions of Democrats were not fully reflected in the Constitution. Some people put forward that the constitution should have the basic rights of citizens, but when they objected, they were rejected by 1: votes, which caused dissatisfaction among the people of all States. Some States refused to approve the constitution, while others demanded that it be supplemented as a prerequisite for approving it. Only after the approval of the constitution, the constitution was approved by most States. This supplement, namely Articles 1 to 1 in the constitutional amendment, is called the Bill of Rights, which embodies the demands of the people of all states, the spirit of the Declaration of Independence and the people's sovereignty. It is in this constitutional background that citizens generally have the right to bear guns.

The purpose is to ensure that the power of the government comes from the people, that the power of the state power comes from the people and the states that make up the country, to prevent the emergence of a strong centralized government, foreign invasion, autocratic regime, military dictatorship, oligarchy, state autonomy, freedom of thought and speech, religious belief, freedom of press and publication, freedom of assembly and association, and free elections. The fundamental purpose is to establish a government ruled by the people, eliminate the government's restrictions on individual freedom, build this country on the basis of individual rights, that is, human rights, and establish the first line of defense against abuse of power.

The Bill of Rights is the result of American democratic forces and people's struggle to balance, neutralize and weaken their efforts and tendencies to establish a country with a centralized minority, a highly centralized government and a highly centralized central government, and it is the victory of democratic forces and people in all states. Today, it seems to be a victory of human civilization.

the separation of powers and checks and balances is to restrict power with power. The purpose of establishing a federation is to enable states with the same interests and requirements to establish a unified market, a unified foreign policy, a unified national defense, a unified finance and form a country. At the same time, ensure state autonomy, ensure state supervision and restriction on federal power, and ensure equal opportunities, fair competition, equality and mutual benefit, and common development among States. The establishment of federal power is to form a unified country and government, to establish a unified market, to safeguard the interests of all States, and to limit federal power. The establishment of state power is to ensure equality among States, to ensure their special interests, to ensure state autonomy, to supervise and restrict the central government, and to prevent the central government from abusing its power. The establishment of citizens' basic rights is to fundamentally guarantee people's freedom, people's management and control of the government, state autonomy, people's autonomy and prevent the government from abusing its power.

The power granted by the people to the government is limited, and the power granted by local governments to the central government is limited. Citizens generally have the right to hold guns, which means that the government is not allowed to monopolize weapons, reflecting that the people do not fully authorize the government. The people authorize the government's standing military police to possess weapons and exercise social management functions, while retaining the people's right to hold guns, the people's right to protect themselves, and the people's right to supervise and the government, so as to achieve the goal that the people use the government to manage society, while the people manage and restrict the government, and the people participate in social management and government.

At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Jefferson proposed to make the United States a democratic base.

only people who believe in the majority can establish such a country. Only this kind of country, and only by establishing a country of this nature, can people have the right to bear guns in general. Only when the people generally have the right to bear guns can such a country exist for a long time.

Later generations said that Washington was the father of the United States, Jefferson was the father of American democracy, Washington made the United States independent and a newly established country, and Jefferson made the United States a democratic country and a new type of country.

success and problems

any management measure has both advantages and disadvantages, and there are contradictions. Citizens generally have the right to hold guns, but there are two sides.

for more than two hundred years, there has been no dictatorship, military dictatorship, oligarchy, elite monopoly, unlimited power and centralized power in the United States.

The United States has become a country with the most developed education and culture, the most advanced science and technology and economy, and a perfect social welfare guarantee. It has become a country with the middle class as the main body and a large number of rich people donating money to run public welfare undertakings. It has become the most attractive and inclusive immigrant country in the world today. It has become the most stable country with the least civil war and civil strife in the world in the past two hundred years. It has become the most open and mobile country in the world today.

The universal right of citizens to bear guns plays an important role in ensuring the freedom, stability and development of American society. In the United States, there was a model in which an 8-year-old woman who was unable to walk in a wheelchair took out a pistol at the bottom of the wheelchair and killed a strong young gangster who came in for robbery. There was a miracle in which a six-year-old child took out a pistol and knocked down a bad immigrant after his parents were knocked unconscious by a robbery at home. When the campus security in the United States is not good, many parents quickly send guns to their daughters who live on campus for self-defense. This is just a manifestation that this right plays an active role in people's daily life.

Citizens generally have the right to bear guns, but it also brings some problems to American society, such as school shootings, company shootings and street shootings. These problems are insignificant compared with the destruction of the people by authoritarian governments, military dictatorships and civil strife. Compared with success, these costs are insignificant.

compared with China in the past two hundred years, the problems brought by autocratic government, military dictatorship and foreign invasion are minimal. Excluding the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Ten-year Civil War, the War of Liberation and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, 2 million people died in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression alone, and more than 2 million people died in three years of economic difficulties alone. Now, murders, rapes and robberies are also happening every day. This is far more than Americans killing each other.

The Soviet Union killed more than 2 million people, accounting for 1/9 of the total population. This is far more than Americans killing each other.

During World War II, the German army attacked, and the Polish army collapsed in less than 1 days, the Dutch army collapsed in less than 5 days, Belgium surrendered in only 18 days, and the French army collapsed in less than a month. The army is not necessarily reliable.

The population of the United States has changed from more than 3 million when the People's Republic of China was founded to more than 2 million now. If there are really 1 million shootings in the United States every year, killing and injuring 1 million people, it won't take many years for all Americans to die.

To weigh the pros and cons, we can't help but say that American democrats and forefathers are far-sighted, which is a very successful measure.

essence and function

should citizens have the right to hold guns? fundamentally speaking, do you believe the majority? Do people need to protect themselves? Should people have the right to protect themselves? Is the government omnipotent? Is every elite who enters the government, military police and even national leaders perfect and will never deteriorate? Is it possible for the government to deteriorate? Have the people abolished, established, managed, controlled and replaced the power of the government? Should people have weapons? Should the people have the power to resist tyranny and foreign aggression? Does social stability and development depend on the broad masses of the people or only a few people?

If citizens generally don't have the right to hold guns, it means that most people in society don't have the right to hold guns. Among most people, irrational people and bad people are in the minority, while good people and intelligent people are in the majority. Prohibiting citizens from generally having the right to hold guns is actually prohibiting most good people from legally owning guns, because it is impossible to completely prohibit a few bad people from illegally obtaining guns, and it is impossible to ensure that a few bad people will never get guns, and it is impossible to ensure that every good person with guns will never become a bad person. Prohibiting citizens from having the right to hold guns generally often leads to the result that law-abiding people can't legally own and use guns, while law-abiding people can often illegally own and use guns.

Citizens generally have the right to bear guns, which means that no one or organization, including the government and military police, has the privilege of monopolizing the use of violence. This is a powerful ultimate supervision force for the government, the standing army and the police, which can effectively prevent people with guns from abusing guns in a timely and extensive manner, and can effectively prevent guns from becoming the lifeblood of a few people engaging in autocratic and corrupt rule. At the same time, it is also a force that can make up and expand the role of the standing army and the police from time to time and everywhere. When the people can't overthrow the autocratic and corrupt government or the government against the people's will through peaceful means, the people can quickly organize and use violence to resist tyranny; When there is a foreign invasion or a sudden attack, especially when the standing army cannot effectively resist or fail, the people can quickly organize to resist; When people suddenly encounter violence or threats in their lives and public security organizations and personnel can't play their roles in time and effectively, it can enhance people's confidence and ability to protect themselves; When the old, the weak and the sick are infringed by the strong, it will help to reduce the advantages of the strong and increase the resistance and confidence of the old, the weak and the sick; In daily life, it helps to cultivate people's spirit of self-reliance, self-help, autonomy, resistance and social responsibility.

Some people in China often tell such jokes when they talk about some weak people being robbed in broad daylight and calling for help in full view, and nobody cares, and the onlookers are indifferent. If an American was present at that time, this kind of thing would definitely be taken care of. Some people in China like to call "the world policeman". As a result, many people watch from the shore when someone falls into the water, but no one jumps in to save people. As a result, a few gangsters without guns can rob dozens of people in a car.

What is even more remarkable is that after World War II, the US military occupied West Germany and Japan and helped them transform into democratic, developed and independent countries.

costs and risks

in some countries where citizens have no right to bear guns, and in some countries where the government strictly controls guns, many innocent people have died, either in civil war, foreign invasion, tyranny or hunger. American citizens generally have the right to hold guns, not without gun control. The purpose of gun control in the United States is to ensure that most citizens have the right to hold guns and the right to legally acquire and use them, not to restrict the right of most citizens to hold guns, not to make the right of citizens to hold guns a privilege of a few people, or to ensure the monopoly of a few people on guns. In history, civil wars, tyranny, civil strife, hunger, foreign aggression and aggression in various countries were not caused by the fact that people or citizens generally had weapons or the right to hold guns.

It's terrible that gangsters and underworld organizations have guns to do evil, but it's even more terrible that people don't have guns to resist. It is a terrible thing to have gangs and bandits with guns, and it is a terrible thing to have a group fight with guns. But it is even more terrible to have an autocratic and corrupt government, a belligerent and overbearing government, a fascist government, a government that is eager for success, a government that extorts money and squanders money, a government that rapes public opinion, and a rogue government and a rogue government. A government and military police department controlled by corrupt officials, hooligans, bullies, swindlers, literary ruffians, royal literati, profiteers, high-level rotten boys and thugs do far more harm than gangs or some people who don't obey the law.

prohibiting people from owning guns and guns and ammunition is actually depriving people of their right to safeguard their freedom and life, weakening and depriving people of their self-defense and self-protection abilities, weakening and depriving people of their autonomy and self-management, protecting a few people from monopolizing and controlling the power of people to manage society and government, handing people's life and dignity and their destiny and future over to a very small number of people, prohibiting people from managing and supervising the government and weakening people's resistance.

When unarmed people face an aggressor with guns or an autocratic and corrupt ruler, they will be like sheep facing a vicious jackal. In a society, the vast majority of 99% people are good people, but they don't have the right to hold guns. When 1% people monopolize the right to hold guns, they run amok, and this society will pay a heavy price for it. In a society, 99% people do not have the right to hold guns, only 1% people have the right to hold guns, and 99% people's lives and dignity depend on the consciousness and conscience of 1% people, which is very unsafe. What should we do when 99% people trust their own safety in the hands of 1% people without strong and effective constraints, when most people in 1% are irresponsible or endanger the lives and property of most people in 99%? What should I do when the good people in this 1% can't control the bad people in this 1%? What if the 1% people are controlled by the bad guys? If most people in 99% have guns, most people in 1% must consider the guns in most people's hands first if they want to run amok with guns.

it is very important for people to have guns and weapons.

public opinion and society

From the comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of a few people monopolizing the right to hold conventional weapons and most people having the right to hold guns, from the process and results of the American social change movement, from the historical development process and current results of the whole human society, American citizens generally have the right to hold guns, which is not a major shortcoming of American society but a major advantage of American society.

it is an organic part of human rights, one of the most solid, extensive and deepest cornerstones of American democratic system and social stability, the last line of defense to defend democratic ideas and democratic system, the line of defense for people to protect themselves, and the steel line of defense composed of people that exists everywhere. It is the people.