nefarious_plot said:
Name me one constructive use for my Austin Healey or a 74 Pinto. Gas is hard to come by for it..it is not reliable nor practical transportation. But its fuuuunn. Who cares... I can own it and I want it.Same with my gun. I am not a criminal and noobdy has the right to prevent me from making choices on anything. There is no reason to get rid of it. Maybe I think the car you drive is uselss. Or anything else you own. Its not my buisiness to tell you, you cant own them. Its not yours to tell me I cant own that gun. What you think its good for me is completely irrelvant. I paid for it. I own it. And this country is supposed to allow me those choices. The people that want me to attend a certian church, boink a certain sex, support a spcefic policy, tell me(if I was a women) what I can or cant do with my body. They have no right to do that. Same with my gun. My choice, my gun.
The difference? One was a means for transportation, the other a means of killing. If you were refuel to your Austin Healey and take it around the block, that more than likely is not going to kill anyone, as so long as you are careful. However, the AK, if you put bullets in it and use it for the purpose it was created, people will die. Surely you get the difference? And to the contrary, the government very much has the right to prevent you from making certain choices without consequence. If you choose to buy heroin, and you are caught, you will be arrested. I'll agree with you on the point that what I think of your belongings is irrelevent. But the government on the other hand, does have every right to prevent you from owning certain things. For example slaves or heroin. And frankly, it is not the government's job to make possitive that you have the right to do anything you like. It is the government's job to make sure that you do have certain freedoms as well as assuring that everyone else is assured their most important governmental right: life. If your owning a gun might put that right of others in jeopardy, then it is the right of the government to prevent you from having that tool. Just as they do with other such harmful devices. You have this idea that you were just born to be free of anything and everything, and that some how or another it is the government that is taking away these rights. But, to the contrary, the very reason you have these freedoms is because the government was established that gave you these freedoms to begin with. It was the US govenment that chose to exist under the rights of freedom with stipulations regarding those freedoms. You are not, in fact, free to do whatever you like however you like. You, among many others, only hold a belief that you are.
Furthermore, banning it wont keep criminals or for that matter anybody else from getting one. There are far to many in existance for the federal goverment to ever track down. Thern there would be the smuggling. You have another drug traffic scenario. And then all the people that would not relenquish there weapons without bloodshed. I know most of the Gomers with "you can have my gun when you pry it form cold dead hands" bumperstickers are just good ole boys with alot of mouth and little guts. But there are plenty who would fight. Most of them are law abiding citzens otherwise though.
Banning such guns will legally prevent their construction. It will also make it legal to seize them where found. Smuggling weapons is a crime and a problem anyhow, so that point is moot. As far as having those who will not hand over their weapons without firing them first, well to me that shows all the more reason why they ought not be legal. If a person is more willing to shoot someone with their weapon than hand it over due to law, then perhaps it is better that that person not have the weapon to begin with. And if it comes to that, it is within the right of the law to fire back. Surely after that happened once, the few remaining with that attitude would fall in line. If not, they ARE breaking the law, and they ARE firing at men enforcing the law. Furthermore, just because you abide by most other laws, if you choose to not abide by one, you are breaking that law, therefor you are subject to arrest.
I think people need to focus on the yahoos that glorify gunfights and war movies and feel violence is always the solution. The violence in this society needs to be adressed. Not any piece of metal.
I agree. Those who glorify such things should be addressed as well. But it would, in fact, be much harder to have gunfights if guns were harder to come by.