03-06-2004, 04:45 AM
Gekko
1) Banning guns (or types of guns) outright doesnât get them off the street. The only people that would give them up are the fiercely law abiding citizens that arenât a danger to society. Criminals would keep their guns and people who were previously good law abiding citizens would be alienated.
2) Do you presume that, even if automatic weapons were not made in this country, they would not be imported? Do you think that they would all be stopped at the border? Also, in the laws of this country, there is something called âGrandfathering:â this means that all such weapons extant today would remain legal to own and believe me there are enough around to stay in circulation for the next seventy five years or so.
3) Almost none of the weapons used in violent crimes are legally obtained. So what is the good in taking the guns of responsible people and making sure that the only people that have them are criminals?
4) You seem to think that a person is more dead if killed with an assualt rifle then if killed with a steak knife. Anyone with combat experience will tell you that a man comfortable with his weapon is infinitely more dangerous then the man who is not.
Quote: My argument was that keeping these types of weapons is a "first step," if you will, towards getting the guns off the streets entirely.There are four major flaws to this argument:
1) Banning guns (or types of guns) outright doesnât get them off the street. The only people that would give them up are the fiercely law abiding citizens that arenât a danger to society. Criminals would keep their guns and people who were previously good law abiding citizens would be alienated.
2) Do you presume that, even if automatic weapons were not made in this country, they would not be imported? Do you think that they would all be stopped at the border? Also, in the laws of this country, there is something called âGrandfathering:â this means that all such weapons extant today would remain legal to own and believe me there are enough around to stay in circulation for the next seventy five years or so.
3) Almost none of the weapons used in violent crimes are legally obtained. So what is the good in taking the guns of responsible people and making sure that the only people that have them are criminals?
4) You seem to think that a person is more dead if killed with an assualt rifle then if killed with a steak knife. Anyone with combat experience will tell you that a man comfortable with his weapon is infinitely more dangerous then the man who is not.
Quote: If you take aggressive steps to limit the availability of assault rifles and crack down hard whenever they are found, instances of their use against law enforcement agents will be almost nonexistant.Did the 1920âs teach us nothing? Tell it to Prohibition.
Quote:An assault rifle used as a fully automatic weapon can be used for only one purpose: to injure or kill someone or something.If a person in the middle of nowhere, on his own property, with no danger to anyone, wants to have some fun and blow away a stump with his grease gun then why not let him?
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