M1 Carbine Imports Banned

[Straw Man]

65. I hope I'm misreading you ...

..let's all just become emotion free killing machines.

... because you appear to be saying that unless we base public policy on emotion rather than reason, we will all become murderers. You seem to be laboring under the delusion that rationality precludes ethics, morality, and empathy. I would submit to you that unrestrained, unreflective emotionality is more likely to result in the "killing machines" you fear.

This is the reason we have civilian control of the military - because those who place their vested interest above that of others don't make better decisions by that virtue.

O King of the Non Sequiturs, whence comes this pronouncement? Civilians = emotion? Military = rationality? Military = vested interest? Civilians = no vested interest? Rationalists have a vested interest but emotionalists don't? Vested interest in what? Don't leave me in the wilderness -- enlighten me.

Nowhere in the Constitution is the right to own dozens of guns enshrined.

I thought it was somewhere in among "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed." I know that you think this is restricted to the point of negation by the prefatory clause; I disagree for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that "shall not be infringed" is rather strong language for a right that you're claiming is restricted and contingent. But really, more than anything, I just feel that you're wrong. And that's what's it's really all about, isn't it?