(February 22, 2014 at 3:59 am)Rahul Wrote: But most, almost all, of the debates coming from people that are against guns, centers around giving our government the ability to take away our rights to own guns.
Now, of course, you will all think, "Fuck, yeah, take away those rights!"
I am very, very, very hesitant to condone our government taking away any of our rights. Because the old saying, give them an inch...
And it's always held true. Abuse of power is the one and only consistent quality you can ever expect from any government.
I'm just not really getting what rights would be violated by making safety features mandatory. Going back to the car comparison, is it a violation of your rights that you have to have certain safety features on cars? Maybe. Is this less a violation of your rights than requiring certain safety features on a gun? Not in any way that I can tell.
I mean, as far as I can see, adding safety features like this would give less ammo, pun intended, to those who seek to ban guns. If a gun owner doesn't care about his or her own personal safety, or that of his or her family, certainly they should care about that.