You still haven't explained your motivation for wanting to outlaw pistol grips and flash suppressors on semi-auto long guns.
Is it that you just enjoy violating people's civil liberties? Do you have some other alternative motivation for wanting to outlaw them that I am not aware of?
Is this an admission that the real motive for gun control is simply that progressives enjoy violating people's civil liberties??
That one is easy. Gun restrictions are only constitutional if they serve a compelling government interest.
No compelling government interest is served by outlawing pistol grips and flash suppressors on semi-auto long guns.
You ask baiting questions but in fairness you have the right to.
You have asked me questions asking why state laws include pistol grips, flash suppressor on semi auto long guns assuming when I stated those laws I agree with them and then you accuse me and those states of violating people's civil liberties.
I am going to say it again because I know you understand me. My motivations or biases as to gun regulation are already known to you just as yours are.I have been completely up front with you and I will restate it again:
1-I believe regulations (conditions) placed on screening people who want to purchase weapons, store their weapons and how they train to use them, maintain them and keep their training up to date are all necessary to prevent risks and when such conditions have been implemented they have reduced risks including:
a-unintentional injuries
b-gun theft
c-access of weapons then used in domestic violence scenarios, other acts of violence, crime and homicide
d-suicide.
The motivation of gun regulation is to prevent all of the above, reduce the risk of all the above.
The motivation is to prevent injuries and deaths from any gun when it comes to regulation of guns,
The motivation is exactly the same as why we have regulations that require occupational health and safety regulations in the work place.
The risk prevention measures I advocate come from a combination of military, police, federal, state, non profit agencies and the insurance industry/
My motivation comes from not wanting children and innocent civilians constantly being under seige.
My motivation comes from feeling sorry that you Americans can't walk in your own streets or send your kids to school without fear of being shot.
My motivation comes from feeling sorry that in a supposed country of freedom you are so afraid of your fellow citizens you carry a weapon and think that is a sign of being free (civil liberty).
My motivation comes from having lived in a conflict zone as a medic and volunteered in other conflict zones and having had to shove parts back in a body or shove my hand in a gun hole or bag body parts.
My motivation comes from knowing three people commit suicide with weapons all service people.
My motivation comes from working for years in the legal system with criminals and domestic violence scenarios where weapons including guns were used.
My motivation comes from wanting it safer when a police officer does a traffic stop or domestic violence all or firefighters or paramedics respond to a scene.
My motivation comes from emergency room doctors, nurses, and the loved ones of gun victims.
My motivation comes from having to have gone to suicide scenes.
So no my motivation comes from all the above not my wanting to take away your "civil liberties".
I never understood any human who finds a gun is symbol of freedom. To me weapons are a sign of human failure to find peace and harmony with the environment we live in.
I do understand necessity hunters or people who use weapons in gun clubs and ranges. Both as I have known them understand me perfectly well. They know I have no issue with them. I exclude them from the above just as I would anyone who uses them professionally.
Now as for your attempt to drag me into a debate about grips, flash suppressors, etc., your problem is with why the states have placed such specifications in their regulations because they think such features make it easier to kill people. Take it up with them.
I live in a country where as of May 1, 2020, the Government of Canada has prohibited over 1,500 models of assault-style firearms and certain components of some newly prohibited firearms (the upper receivers of M16, AR-10, AR-15, and M4 patterns of firearms). There are also new maximum thresholds for muzzle energy (greater than 10,000 Joules) and bore diameter (20 mm bore or greater). Any firearm that exceeds them is now prohibited.
I would imagine you won't move to Canada to live given the above and that is fine with me.
