Wow, Wow, Wow.....No Gun Zones, Gun Registration, Background Checks and now Micro-stamping again!

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104. A guy named "Logical" shouldn't froth so much

Nor should your argument depend on straw men.

No law makes anyone safer. That's not the purpose of a law. When you pass a law, magical bunnies don't deliver safety to all the citizens. In reality, a law's purpose is to set a standard and delineate what the result of violating that standard will be. That's really all any law is. Case in point, there are numerous laws against murder, aren't there? If laws made us safer, murder wouldn't happen; there are laws against it, after all! Since they "don't keep us safe," as your - er - logic is going, shouldn't we abolish them? I mean they don't stop murder so they're useless, right?

Can compliance with the law result in increased safety? Sure, as is the case with seatbelt and helmet laws. Faced with hte option of wearing the equipment or paying a fine, people opt to wear the stuff, and accidents have reduced mortality and injury rates.

Compliance with certain laws can also provide you with safety from litigation. What I'm seeing around here is that gun owners fear false litigation the way a plantation master feared cuckolding. Such things as background checks - which by the way the FBI says is quite effective, and I'm inclined to take their word over yours - registration, and possibly micro-stamping can actually protect you by providing an evidence trail that everything about you is on the up and up.

As for your "people like me" jab, I don't think about this shit that much. It is not a great emasculating worry for me that "teh gubbermint" might want to touch my guns. Nor am I living in quaking terror that standards are apparently lax enough to let people like you own guns. It doesn't enter my day until I'm cruising the Latest page on DU - or in your case, checking the "my posts" section - and see someone freaking the fuck out about god knows what.

In fact my primary concern is that "gun culture" is goofy as all hell. It's like watching the paranoid manchildren on my pet right-wing site freak the fuck out because Obama ate a shrimp with a salad fork or something. To me the Gungeon is a weird social petri dish where I can watch the organisms throw themselves into ever more complicated contortions about how everyone's out to get them.

At any rate. It took you the greater part of a week to find my post. I look forward to a similar wait to this one. See you on Friday!