I don't understand the animosity towards DU gun owners.

[TheKentuckian]

203. So, you are asserting that no people need all the protection they can muster from their governments?

Take it further, are you claiming that no people have ever needed any protection they could scratch together in history and that you can assure us going forward that none ever will?

Hell, don't bother. You are demonstrably wrong in real time, ask the Syrians and any number of people around the globe. There is no special nobility and no radically advanced cultures in this little world. People are people and avarice for power has few limits. I submit there are wildly optimistic souls, proud in their willful ignorance like it is a badge of advancement have spent too many nights feeling far safer than they actually where save grace, in their beds.

This isn't Europe, there has been mass proliferation in this country for it's entire existence, semi-automatics more or less standard for a century with anything made before about 1900 has been completely outside registration and ATF regulation. At this point so much toothpaste is out of the tube all that can be accomplished is to give massive weapons superiority to the criminal class, fueled by the absurd failed drug war that is the cause of most violence outside of domestic, which is a whole other nut to crack.

You want less violence then decrease poverty, end the drug war, and increase stigma free access to mental health and make serious headway across the board or sit around self righteously but ignorantly tilting at this windmill and largely (as a movement) lying your collective asses off about your actual intent which is the ban and if possible confiscation of all semi-automatic weapons by hook or by crook.