The picture is one of those items that makes you not want to stop reading. As soon as you see it, you know where the article is going and you loose all of your credibility in the first half second, without reading a single word.
As to the content; legislation and banning assault rifles will not solve the problem. If there is a market for it, it can and will be obtained.
If the last three incidents were perpetrated with a broadsword, there would be legislation proposed banning broadsword and blacksmiths.
We have too many laws as it is. Situations that should be regulated, are not and vice-verse. Laws cannot address the mental defects of an individual.
Failing to plan is planning to fail!!!
The picture.........
Folks that is what happened. Like it or don't like it I used the picture so people could see that. I do not......repeat do not....apologize for it. Now I don't know whether you are bothered because he is your guy and the people who voted for him usually try to pin the Hitler tail on the GOP and not the donkey but he did EXACTLY the same thing Barack did before he banned guns. The truth hurts but that is why and only why I used that picture. As for legislation there are all sorts of crimes that go on like that all the time and no...no one proposes legislation against it.
"Some days you get the bear, some days the bear gets you."
Cdr. William Riker
As someone living in the UK where firearms are not an everyday occurance, I will not pretend to understand the ins and outs of the gun control debate.
What I will say is that while I do see a need for something like a handgun - for protection say. I fail to see a ligitamate reason for someone owning an assult rifle. You can't hunt with it and unless you are in the armed forces in a war zone you don't need one.
The right to bare arms may be a courner stone of the law, but it was written when there was a need for it and firearms technology didn't even invisage a machine gun.
My questions are:
1: Is it time to take note that tech is outpacing human nature to properly control ourselves and so place limits to protect society?
2: Is it time to change view point and say unless there is a valid reason for needing one, should it be illegal to have one - like the UK's shotgun laws?
Your thoughts?
You can't hunt with an assault rifle? Are you sure? My time in the Reserves makes it look like an assault rifle would actually work pretty well for that. Maybe it wouldn't work really that good on full auto, that's kind of like a shotgun except the projectiles come out in a linear fashion rather than all at once with the shot pattern of actual shotguns. Still, a semiautomatic should work nicely, I would think.
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