mljdeckard
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Absolutely handguns are made for killing, that's why we carry them. As human beings, we have a fundamental human right to self-defense. They aren't as good as a rifle, but life proves it impractical to carry a long gun everywhere. The police have no legal obligation to protect me as an individual, it is therefore my responsibility to protect myself and my family by carrying a handgun everywhere I can.
Where do you get this magic arbitrary line of 2010? Why is that year a good year to restrict rights? What about the rights of my grandchildren to protect themselves? Just because there is no clear need to use violence to suppress tyranny NOW, doesn't mean it will never happen. If you let arms be registered, controlled, and confiscated now, my grandchildren will have no means to resist. This sounds just as appalling as suggesting that the internet and printers carry too much risk for treason and slander, and therefore regular citizens cannot be trusted with them, so from now on anyone who wants one will need to be screened and licensed by the government.
How are firearms with fixed stocks less deadly than the ones with folding stocks? You are listening to the propaganda fostered by the Brady Campaign that tells people that how guns LOOK affects how deadly they are. Things like flash hiders, bayonet lugs, pistol grips, dark color, standard capacity magazines and variable-length stocks do not affect the lethality of a rifle at all, and banning them for ten years bade absolutely no discernible difference in gun-related crime.
And it IS a slippery slope. They DO want to use this as a starting point to to ban all guns. If we give at all, they will exploit it to ban them all, as their stated policies have said.
But I'm all about compromise. I will compromise to repeal only HALF of the useless, ineffective gun laws in existence THIS YEAR. NEXT year, we can look at the other half.
We as Americans hold an attitude where we would rather be free than safe. (Admittedly, a lot of us have forgotten that.) We don't WANT laws to protect us, we want to be free to protect ourselves.
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined." Patrick Henry, 3 Elliot, Debates at 45 (Virginia Convention, June 5, 1788)
Where do you get this magic arbitrary line of 2010? Why is that year a good year to restrict rights? What about the rights of my grandchildren to protect themselves? Just because there is no clear need to use violence to suppress tyranny NOW, doesn't mean it will never happen. If you let arms be registered, controlled, and confiscated now, my grandchildren will have no means to resist. This sounds just as appalling as suggesting that the internet and printers carry too much risk for treason and slander, and therefore regular citizens cannot be trusted with them, so from now on anyone who wants one will need to be screened and licensed by the government.
How are firearms with fixed stocks less deadly than the ones with folding stocks? You are listening to the propaganda fostered by the Brady Campaign that tells people that how guns LOOK affects how deadly they are. Things like flash hiders, bayonet lugs, pistol grips, dark color, standard capacity magazines and variable-length stocks do not affect the lethality of a rifle at all, and banning them for ten years bade absolutely no discernible difference in gun-related crime.
And it IS a slippery slope. They DO want to use this as a starting point to to ban all guns. If we give at all, they will exploit it to ban them all, as their stated policies have said.
But I'm all about compromise. I will compromise to repeal only HALF of the useless, ineffective gun laws in existence THIS YEAR. NEXT year, we can look at the other half.
We as Americans hold an attitude where we would rather be free than safe. (Admittedly, a lot of us have forgotten that.) We don't WANT laws to protect us, we want to be free to protect ourselves.
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined." Patrick Henry, 3 Elliot, Debates at 45 (Virginia Convention, June 5, 1788)
