Complain to the families of the Pulse and Sandy Hook victims about your right to due process

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124. You're on the losing side of this argument

Everyone except a few loons now accepts the stiff licensing and operation requirements for automatic firearms, and indeed gun aficionados are the first to give a detailed explanation of how hard it is to get and maintain a federal firearms license. Since this is apparently not incompatible with the second amendment there's no reason we can't increase the licensing requirements for high-power semi-automatic weapons.

I don't want sweeping gun bans and I'm not opposed to private ownership of weapons, but I have a hard time with people who tell me they need anything other than a revolver, a shotgun, or a quality low-caliber rifle. Oh sure, you can imagine circumstances where you'd want more, but you can imagine anything. Tell me about the last instance you know of where someone went down shooting to defend themselves or their family but tragically ran out of ammo or couldn't reload quick enough.

Yeah yeah, the second amendment is to prevent tyranny yadda yadda. Frankly I trust the integrity of the armed services a lot more than some wannabe guerillas to safeguard my liberty.