RE: When Gun Nuts Write Gun Laws, Nuts have Guns
December 23, 2012 at 4:38 pm
(This post was last modified: December 23, 2012 at 4:40 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
A problem (rof) which they rectified by carrying multiple firearms. ROF is hardly a defining factor in the lethality of a weapon. Most .22's (read, only slightly more powerful than a pellet gun) are semi auto, and they're only good for shooting rodents (until you couch a massive charge behind them in the case of 5.56). It's actually a multitude of factors that go into creating one of those "scary" weapons we rail against (which are rarely the weapons we actually legislate against)- but in the end...those aren't the weapons that seem to be used in the vast majority of gun related crimes (or even mass shootings). I'm one of those guys that skews the gun ownership statistics here in the US and I do own a range of takedowns, black powders, semi-autos, and autos, but I've never committed a crime involving a firearm or been involved in a mass shooting (course I don't own a single handgun.....so maybe that's it, maybe if I had a handgun....).
It's equally as simple to effect mass death from fertilizer or bleach, perhaps more so...but we don't see any "ban and/or control bleach" advocates floating around. Personally, I say enforce the laws we have (which would drastically reduce our gun related crime statistics - mostly via handguns) and call it a day. Nutballs will still be nutballs, and some of them will be nutballs with guns. There's a price to pay for a freer society. If it's a price we just can't pay so be it (revoke em), but lets not blow smoke up our own asses about it.
It's equally as simple to effect mass death from fertilizer or bleach, perhaps more so...but we don't see any "ban and/or control bleach" advocates floating around. Personally, I say enforce the laws we have (which would drastically reduce our gun related crime statistics - mostly via handguns) and call it a day. Nutballs will still be nutballs, and some of them will be nutballs with guns. There's a price to pay for a freer society. If it's a price we just can't pay so be it (revoke em), but lets not blow smoke up our own asses about it.
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