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Originally Posted by tecoyah
This is not actually the reality. Most gun control is directed at high power assault weapons, or at instant access to a weapon without some level of check on the individual before issuing a firearm permit.
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This shows that you don't have very much knowledge on the gun control laws that have been passed and they keep trying to pass on a yearly basis.
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Originally Posted by tecoyah
I doubt very much you, or anyone else would carry an assault rifle around as a weapon of self defense, and sincerely hope you would want to prevent an unstable person from getting a legal weapon for personal use.
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I wouldn't carry an M16 or MP5 around, but I would keep it in my home, ready and able for use. As far as unstable people go, if they are unstable enough to not be trusted to not hurt people, they shouldn't be on the streets period.
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Originally Posted by tecoyah
I understand you are adamant about your right to bear Arms, and that is fine. It is important for you to equally understand that limitation MUST be placed on these weapons at some point for the stability of our society. Very few expect you to surrender your Guns, and limit your ability to protect yourself. But most people have a problem with allowing complete freedom when it comes to deadly weapons in the hands of everyone.
I doubt you would feel comfortable knowing the neighbor you just pissed off, who has a history of beating his wife has an M-14 in his closet.
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and yet america was founded with the express right for everyone to own a firearm that was equal to the standing military, so here after 200 years, there are enough people out there who are in 180 degree different ideology of the founding fathers that we have several states full of people that have lost one of their rights in the bill of rights due to political ideology and mistrust of their fellow citizen.
"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?"
-- Patrick Henry, 3 J. Elliot, Debates in the Several State Conventions 45, 2d ed. Philadelphia, 1836