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timalkin, when it comes to making sensible legislation, I fail to see why we should take your hypothetical situations into account, when they are merely blatant appeals to emotion. Should we also imagine what it would be like if said criminals went after puppies and unicorns?
Gun bans will not eliminate gun crime. To think they would is to be idealistic. Further, does one honestly need to squeeze of a few hundred rounds of a fully automatic weapon to decide whether they should be banned? This is about as unnecessary as a requirement to have worked with any other banned material. You talk about reason and logic. You should know that they can be employed without having a great time regarding the issue in question.
Try not to let this "bright light of truth" blind you. It does that sometimes.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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