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Kadath · 05-29-2003, 09:01 PM

Fuck, that law was toothless the day it was signed. The way it was written allowed gun manufacturers to make minute changes to their existing designs to avoid the ban. Gun control IS a lousy issue because America is filled with lousy people who need a gun to feel powerful(or empowered, if you like), safe, less impotent, whatever. If the law had been about safety it would have banned everything but hunting rifles at the very least. You don't need a fucking handgun, people, let alone an assault rifle. You're not in a militia. You aren't going to be called upon to defend your settlement from hostile Indians or the King of England. Give up your tools of rage.

I don't mean to say that all gun owners are lousy people, or impotent, or anything of the sort. I meant to say that people who need a gun to compensate for such problems, real or imagined, are not helpful to the situation in this country. It is currently your right to own a handgun, and I don't begrudge you that right, nor think you any less of a person for exercising that right. I do, however, want to change the way Americans look at guns, hopefully for the better

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Kadath Muffled Location: Camazotz	Fuck, that law was toothless the day it was signed. The way it was written allowed gun manufacturers to make minute changes to their existing designs to avoid the ban. Gun control IS a lousy issue because America is filled with lousy people who need a gun to feel powerful(or empowered, if you like), safe, less impotent, whatever. If the law had been about safety it would have banned everything but hunting rifles at the very least. You don't need a fucking handgun, people, let alone an assault rifle. You're not in a militia. You aren't going to be called upon to defend your settlement from hostile Indians or the King of England. Give up your tools of rage. I don't mean to say that all gun owners are lousy people, or impotent, or anything of the sort. I meant to say that people who need a gun to compensate for such problems, real or imagined, are not helpful to the situation in this country. It is currently your right to own a handgun, and I don't begrudge you that right, nor think you any less of a person for exercising that right. I do, however, want to change the way Americans look at guns, hopefully for the better __________________ it's quiet in here Last edited by Kadath; 05-30-2003 at 10:20 AM..