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In reply to the discussion: Firearms bans [View all]

benEzra

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12. I respect your choice not to own them, but I insist on owning them. Does that disqualify me?
Fri Mar 10, 2017, 08:41 PM
Mar 2017
Most people who insist on having a gun are by definition highly likely not someone who should.

I respect your choice not to own them, but I insist on owning them. Does that disqualify me?

I think most of them would be willing to give up their gun if everybody else had to.

No, for two reasons. First, everyone "has to" give up cannabis under Federal law (never mind cocaine and meth), yet they are demonstrably easier to get than prescription cold medicine. Everyone "had to" give up alcohol during Prohibition, yet alcohol abuse increased, especially of harder distillates. In both cases, driving the commerce underground simply made it more violent, more lucrative, and more hardcore; it did not eliminate it.

Second, your "have to" part requires that there be *somebody* with guns to enforce the "have to" part. Gun control laws are enforced at gunpoint, after all. And the entire purpose of the Second Amendment was to prevent the executive branch from having a monopoly of force, since such monopolies have almost always turned toxic.
Firearms bans [View all] discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2017 OP
Because they are meant to kill people and animals. 50 Shades Of Blue Mar 2017 #1
Ignoring that such a broad statement is untrue, sarisataka Mar 2017 #2
That's not the question asked. 50 Shades Of Blue Mar 2017 #5
It is a separate question sarisataka Mar 2017 #6
*Very* obvious and sad dodge. NT pablo_marmol Mar 2017 #13
I am unconvinced that the choice of such targets is always an evil act discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2017 #7
Naww. I answered the question. Don't respond to baiting. 50 Shades Of Blue Mar 2017 #9
Your non-responsiveness is telling discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2017 #11
Naw. You have a history of "tail between the legs" behavior. NT pablo_marmol Mar 2017 #14
A non answer and more non answer replies. Nice Blue_Warrior Mar 2017 #17
Even a non-answer conveys useful information n/t discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2017 #18
In this case the useful information was that the poster didn't have any idea Blue_Warrior Mar 2017 #19
Should archery tackle be banned as well? Marengo Mar 2017 #20
Some people think guns are icky sarisataka Mar 2017 #3
In fact I don't have them but let's say for now that I'd like my options to be open discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2017 #8
More guns than people. Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #4
So many questions discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2017 #10
I respect your choice not to own them, but I insist on owning them. Does that disqualify me? benEzra Mar 2017 #12
"Most people who insist on having a gun are by definition highly likely......... pablo_marmol Mar 2017 #15
"there are no gun bans and wont be" yagotme Mar 2017 #16
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