For your own protection?

Question

I have a few relatives in america, I asked them why alot of people in the USA carry guns. My aunty told me that its for there own protection (depending on where they live). I am not sure how accurate this is but my question is this.

If america let people carry guns for their own protection, then why do they keep adoption records sealed for adoptees own protection?

How can they let people carry around armed weapons, but not let adoptees see what is rightfully theirs?

There really isnt any comparison. Am I right?

Being from the UK, I dont really know much about the American adoption process, so please tell me if I am speaking out of turn.

Thanks

Rebecca

Answer 1

I understand your point and agree with you completly.

Perhaps it's the peacefull canuck coming out in me, but I don't believe in guns one bit.

I also don't believe in closed adoption records. My history, is my buisness, no one else's, and therefore I should have every right to have access to it.

Makes very little sense to keep me from my records...for my own protection.

"Peace cannot be achieved by force, but by understanding alone" ... Albert Einstein

Answer 2

Ok the gun subject and adoption subject two different things and are not even close to being linked as one.  And if the parents of the person being adopted wish to not be known why would you want to know?  Why would you want to meet someone who never wanted you?  Its to protect the feelings of not being wanted.  That is what family's who adopt are for!

Answer 3

My opinion is that guns are usually more dangerous than protective.  Come to think of it, my opinion on sealed records is pretty much the same--they are usually more dangerous than protective.  My question is who are we really protecting?  The adoptees are screaming out for them to be unsealed.  They need that part of their lives to be available to them. So, how can it be protecting them to keep that from them?  I believe most of the birth families would be happy to find out about the child that was lost to them.  So, that leaves the adoptive families.  Are we just protecting them from their fear of losing their place?  

As an adoptive mom, I am afraid that is exactly what sealed records are doing.  My daughter is 15 and she has a lot of questions about her birth family.  We are lucky that in Alabama it shouldn't be too hard for us to find answers for her.  She needs this to help her fill in the missing pieces of her "self".  I'm not losing anything by supporting her in finding those pieces. I hope that sealed records will soon be obsolete.

Answer 4

See amendment #2:

http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html...

Can anyone point out where you could argue adoptees' rights to their records in the Constitution?  I know it's there somewhere- what a great tool to use for the "fight".

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Ooops, I've got my  documents mixed up- here's the Declaration of Independence link that I think would help more.

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/doc...

Ahhhh... yes, read the "pursuit of happiness" part. :-)

Answer 5

I am not certain but I don't think adoption records are kept closed any more.

Answer 6

uh,  we dont all run around carrying guns.  maybe you have been watchin to many movies or something.