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Originally Posted by dippin
This parallel doesn't really make a lot of sense.
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it makes perfect sense when you look at how gun control developed over the last 50 years.
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Originally Posted by dippin
First of all, because there is already a lot more social control exercised over welfare recipients than gun owners.
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false. at least depending on where one lives. In Texas, it might be real easy to get a gun, but not NYC. Welfare in NYC or Chicago is alot easier than getting a gun.
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Originally Posted by dippin
Second of all, because I am not aware of any significant position within the gun control movement that favors the complete elimination of gun ownership. The strictest gun laws in the nation don't eliminate gun ownership, simply restrict the types of gun, who can have them, and where one can carry them.
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VPC, LCAV, Brady Campaign, etc. All of these groups started out wanting the elimination of handguns for citizen ownership, unless you were military or law enforcement. Their public face may have changed, but their ultimate goal is banning private gun ownership. To think anything different is either completely naive or intellectual dishonesty.