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Originally Posted by OpieCunningham
I don't need to understand all the details of the classifications because there has to be lines drawn somewhere. I know the difference between a nuke and a handgun. If your argument really comes down to "if it's not going to be used illegally, it should be legal", well, we can apply that to everything and anything - not just the guns involved in the AWB.
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If you're going to debate what should be banned, then you should know the difference between the classifications. Suggesting that allowing citizens to own small arms would lead to people demanding nuclear proliferation at Wal*Mart is spurious at best. Junk legislation like the AWB does nothing.
I'm not suggesting that people should be able to walk into a store, slap down a credit card, and walk out with a machine gun. But someone who successfully passes a background check and gets the proper license should be allowed to purchase whatever he wants; that's the whole point of "innocent until proven guilty." I'm not a criminal if I want to buy a gun, no matter what gun I want.
The purpose of gun control is (supposedly) to prevent crime by making it difficult for criminals to obtain guns. The problem is that it fails to do that; if it were true then Washington DC would be the safest city in America. All we're doing is preventing law abiding citizens from defending themselves.