Automatic Weapons

RF667799 said:

Jumping off a bridge is reversible? For who? Superman?



The gun control advocates make arguments that include the idea that if they can take one sort of gun, they can take any and all. They often refer to any incremental increase in regulations as "baby steps"--- steps that are necessary before really motivating, eh?

AR-15s make one "feel like a hunter"? If one is hunting, then one is a hunter by definition. AR-15... Browning Auto-5...Colt Python... crossbow. Just a few of the things one might carry while hunting.

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The issue with weapons bans is that violence is usually the symptom, not the problem itself. Canada has started banning cooking knives. An emperor of China banned forks and knives and spoons, which is why chopsticks were invented.

Banning guns is a stupid idea. Guns are useful for limiting tyranny and incompetence. Tyranny and incompetence are more destructive than well-trained gun owners hopped up on adrenaline. If anything, guns by themselves are too minimal.

Yes, I'm going to talk about my weapons kit manufacturing business. They're for more than just guns. They're for jeeps and tanks and airplanes and ships and boats and submarines. Only people who can read the instructions can build them. Only people with mechanical skills can build them, which means that only people with job skills can build, maintain, repair, or upgrade them. That means that to some degree these weapons serve to solve and prevent the problems that make anti-government subversion feasible. They solve many problems that contribute to street crime. And they're very cost-effective because they use lots of traditional hardware and ideas. These kits are industrial arts training that arrives in shipments. And there are kits for cars and trucks and appliances, too.

The point here is that almost nobody is dumb enough to go taking big risks like committing violent felonies without being pushed into it one way or another. Kits like I sell make America safer in two ways: they teach job skills and they deter foreign invasions.

Let people benefit meaningfully from their own labor in meaningful proportion to their labor, consistently and reliably, and they will do whatever you genuinely reward them for.

If they do not expect to benefit from anything but violent crime, then nothing will prevent violent crime.

SNOWFLAKE said:

. If one needs an AR-15 to go hunting I have to wonder if they really are a hunter or just like feeling like one. Big diff.

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The AR-15 is such a well-known standard in the firearms world that many people choose it mostly because they see so many other people using them and talking about them. Gunsmiths usually recommend them as a first rifle because they're all the rifle most people will ever need, and that saves people money. You can even get a bolt action conversion kit for it, which is a good option to have for what, maybe $15? The AR-15 is like the small block Chevy of the gun world. Everybody knows how it works and how to customize it. That's what makes it worth owning.