California ban on high capacity magazines declared unconstitutional

[Brian37]

Yep, my experience is about the same. I am personally not threatened by gun control talk, because I know that no one is ever coming for my guns.

I gave away an sks last year. If the state were buying them, to get them out of circulation, I definitely would have taken the money.  Could have been $20 bucks, don't care, sold.  Twenty bucks is more than zero bucks.

It had sentimental value to me, once upon a time.  There's a pic here on the boards of me in my green checkered keffiyah holding my first son (third try is the charm!) in one hand and the rifle in the other.  Some kid tried to kill me with that gun.   I stepped over his dead body and took it for a souvenir.  

Nobody was (or was ever) going to come for that gun.  Even if they did I wouldn't have given it to them.  Banning it without some sort of compensation would have cemented it's value in my mind.  It's not like I could have gotten another one like it.

The sane in this country are not trying to become a fascist state. Regulations are not bans, anymore than speed limits are anti car.

They cannot argue "Just keep them out of the wrong hands", then turn around and scream like babies when we agree with them.

Saying we have a firearm violence problem, which we do, is like what Nader did in the 70s pointing out that what the auto industry was putting out back then were not safe.

It isn't a gun grab when we talk about prevention and safety. 

I think one of the most important things safety advocates can do is what the sane did in fighting big tobacco, go after their marketing first. The other thing we can do is address economic issues in all zip codes. Japan for example is still an open western democracy, still allows firearm ownership. But they are smart about it. First off, they do not have the pay gap between their top and bottom. Their police while some are armed, most are not. So their population does not have to worry about a militarized police force, on top of having a better sense of social responsibility on economics. The reason most Japanese don't own firearms isn't because it is illegal, more to the point most don't because they don't have the economic extremes like we do. 

Our attitude about firearms in America is why we have the firearm violence we do. We romanticize firearms as if they were not just mere objects, but as if they were living super heros that if we just use them, they can save the day like Superman. Unlike the past when we had a far better attitude that firearms are tools, not toys, not magical super heros. But again, that all changed in the 70s with people like Wayne hijacking the org.