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Originally Posted by Jordn
Like I said, I'm not sure thats a healthy viewpoint. Maybe if it was seen as a privilege people would treat them in a different way.
Me and a group of friends were discussing this the other day and an interesting point that was raised was why do people need Automatic and Semi-Auto weapons 'for protection'. Sure I can see why you might feel secure by owning a handgun, be it for firing warning shots or just the 'presence' of a gun being a deterrent but Semi/Auto weapons? Seems over-kill for protection/self defense.
I suppose it does help having an Automatic weapon with a big clip when it comes to mowing down classrooms full of students though?
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How, exactly, am I supposed to treat a right, one we were given on December 15, 1791, as a privilege? It may not be a "healthy viewpoint" in your eyes, but it's a right given to us by our Founders. If it was simply a privilege to own a firearm, it wouldn't be in our Bill of Rights, now would it?
You anti-gun Brits have been brainwashed by your media and government into thinking that guns are overly deadly objects of murder and mayhem. If you leave a loaded gun on a table in a locked room where no one can get it, it won't fire a single round in one year or in a thousand years. It takes a person to pull the trigger.
Why not limit the police to revolvers? After all, semi-automatics and automatics are overkill.
You cannot ban something simply because evil people will use it for nefarious purposes. The judicial system's point is punitive, not prohibitive. To prohibit the whole citizenry from ownership of weapons or parts for weapons is to imply the citizenry is not trustworthy and they are to be kept an eye on.
Automatic weapons are just plain fun. We're (I'm using the term loosely, as here in Kalifornia I am not) allowed to have them because we pay the tax and undergo the check to buy one. NFA-registered automatic weapons have been used in exactly two murders in the past 74 years, one of which was committed by a police officer.
Because you're completely ridiculous, let me quote some prices for automatic weapons:
HK MP5K $18,999.99
HK 33: $16,999.90
Reising Model 50: $6,499.99
Colt M16: $10,999.99
Vector Arms Mini Uzi: $10,499.99
Cobray M11A1: $3,999.99
HK MP5: $18,499.99
How many mass murderers do you know willing to fill out an application and fork out at least $3,999.99 for a full-auto piece-of-garbage Cobray .380?
Please see
GunCite - Gun Control: Machine Guns for more information about how ridiculously uninformed nearly everyone is on full-auto weapons.
Also, are mass killings with guns the most prevalent mass killings?
NO. The most prevalent mass killings are arson.