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Originally posted by Lebell
This is VERY important because you are suffering from the same confusion that is purposefully perpetuated and what needs to be dispelled:
The AWB is NOT about military weapons.
Military weapons are FULLY AUTOMATIC.
The AWB is about weapons that LOOK like military weapons.
You CANNOT get a grenade launcher...AWB or no AWB...period (they are regulated under the 1934 act as distructive devices.)
I keep coming back to these points because until we have the same basis of understanding what the law means, what it does and doesn't do, it makes it impossible to discuss it.
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I fully understood your point. I agree that the current AWB law isn't effective. However, that law exists in a political context in which:
- the NRA will oppose any gun control law, no matter how sensible, because they claim that it is a "camel nose under the tent" for harsher gun control later
- the gun control supporters will support any gun control law, no matter how silly, so that they can go back to their constituents and say what a good job they did
So, I expect a clean, effective gun control law to be passed, oh, about never.
Lebell, I laid out my opinion on how I thought guns should be controlled, and you came back with the same argument saying that there is no proof that any gun control is effective. As I said at the beginning of this thread, nuclear weapons aren't freely available to own, therefore it seems like some form of weapon control is needed in the USA.
Are you honestly saying that you believe that any american citizen should be able to freely own as many guns as they want, with no restrictions on the size, capacity, or capabilities of the gun? And that they should be able to get these guns with absolutely no restrictions, training, background checks, or any other controls?
Unless you believe this, then you obviously believe in some form of gun control laws. What gun controls laws would you enact if you could start with a clean slate?