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In reply to the discussion: Multiple 30-round magazines used by the shooter. [View all]Igel
(35,893 posts)One must, it seems, justify having things be legal. The burden of proof is on those wanting things permitted.
Are we a country where everything not explicitly banned is permitted, or a country where everything not explicitly permitted is banned?
Or is a matter of personal choice of the enlightened?
On edit: A lot of bans I find ludicrous. The AWB was one such thing, done based upon the rigorous logic of feeling than any sort of actual thinking. Many of the TSA requirements are likewise loony. A few months after 9/11 I had to travel by air. I was standing there reading the regs on what could and couldn't be taken on board.
I was standing there with my travel guitar, a solid piece of tropical hardwood wood as long as a baseball bat and rather heavier, with nice points carved into one end and metal pieces sticking out just right for doing serious damage. One or two blows to the head with it would be enough to kill somebody. The metal pieces that attached to it had moderately sharp ends and if held and thrust into somebody abdomen would also be unhealthful. Ahead of me people's possessions were confiscated. Fingernail clippers. A bottle of shampoo. Toothpaste. A racketball racket. You could fingernail clip or racketball racket somebody all day and do much less damage. They were confiscated and the passengers rebuked for daring to carry such lethal, banned items.
They looked at my lethal travel guitar and said that it was a musical instrument. I could take it on the plane. It and its internal electronics were permitted. Suddenly I felt rather less safe.