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You know, I come back to the politics section, see you've responded, and I'm filled with weariness. This feels like round 15 of a 50 round bareknuckle boxing match. Ding.
Okay. So the onus is on me to fix what has become a flawed and incorrect document, something we have done a few times over the years, that it no longer provides people with weapons too powerful for the common man to possess. I accept the onus.
Being as you accept that the only purpose of a gun is to put a bullet into a living target(practice shooting being nothing more than preparation for that event), I must now only refute your need to do that very thing. War. You want to shoot someone in a war, you join the armed forces, they issue you your gun. You give it back when your hitch is up. Self-defense. We could go on about this one forever. Carrying a gun in self-defense cuts both ways. If a guy pulls a gun on you and demands your wallet, you can either give it up peacefully, or pulled your concealed firearm, for which you possess a permit. Now you are faced with the situation where one of you has to get shot to solve the situation, when you could have just handed over fifty bucks and forced no one to die. Hunting I am not currently quibbling with. I would propose that, in a perfect world, you keep your hunting rifle at the game preserve in a locker akin to a safety deposit box, you get it out when you go into hunt, you check it back in when you leave. Same for target shooting.
As for your statements concerning the gang member. Great, he's breaking the law. That helps the people caught in the crossfire. Maybe we can try the guy's corpse for illegal gun purchases after we finish with the murder one beefs.
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