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In reply to the discussion: I will not offer "thoughts and prayers" for the victims in Orlando [View all]Station to Station
(53 posts)when busy, offer up the potential for massive loss of life.
But then so are many places, many places in America and many places across the world. You can't stop everything all the time whether you are in America, in Britain, in France, wherever.
I'm not an advocate of banning guns entirely, not by any means. Yet I am a proponent of a relatively comprehensive registration and licensing scheme. It's required for cars, a possession many people literally cannot live without.
I honestly cannot find any good argument against it; the idea that it may be necessary to rise up against a tyrannical government is so out there that it's unfathomable to me that some might actually think it's a realistic scenario. To me, that's almost as crazy as Ted Kaczynski