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In reply to the discussion: Police: Ex-Student Sold Gun in Pa. School Shooting [View all]Baalzamon
(21 posts)Let me see if I understand you correctly (so if I have you wrong, please say so):
You are ok with having firearms registered, then having some of those registered guns deemed illegal, then having them confiscated? You do realize that people spent thousands of dollars of their hard earned money to legally buy those "assault weapons" in the first place right? And you want to steal them (it is stealing if you do not compensate them in full for their personal property).
Even in Australia, the motherland of draconian gun control, they paid gun owners in FULL for their guns. If a gun was purchased for $1,500, that man received $1,500. So congratulations, your point-of-view of just taking expensive property and not paying for it is a place even Australia was smart enough not to go; for obvious reasons.
The only worse view I have seen on this site from the gun control crowd is the person who said something about executing gun owners who keep their property instead of turning it in for nothing.
The last thing I would like to point out to you is this:
Just because restrictions are in place on something (2nd Amendment, 1st Amendment, whatever) does not mean that those restrictions justify other restrictions. In other words, restriction A, B, C do not justify restriction D through Z. So instead of using the tired "the 2nd Amendment isn't free from restrictions", just come out and say what you mean: "I realize there are restrictions on the 2nd Amendment, but I will never be satisfied until semi-automatic rifles are banned".