When the price of individualism is just too high

[OrwellwasRight]

71. Only if it goes in the mail.

Not if he delivers it to you or you go get it from him. And only if he chooses to follow the law. Some private sellers don't.

And the Assault Rifle/Assault Weapons dichotomy has been thoroughly debated above. I have no interest in revisiting that dead horse except to say you can kill plenty of people, and apparently this cretin in CT did, with an "assault weapon" that required a new pull of the trigger for every bullet, but no reloading of bullets because of a high capacity clip. He killed plenty of people very quickly without it being a fully automatic weapon. One no longer needs such a weapon to inflict massive and rapid death on massive numbers of people.

30 -50 bullet clips or magazines are NOT needed for hunting. Hunters need to get the animal on their first shot, otherwise they scare the game away. They are lucky if they get a second shot in and take the animal down then, but nobody is eating a deer riddled with bullets from a 50 bullet clip. Nobody. There is no point to such high capacity clips or magazines except to hunt people. And frankly, I don't want my neighbors hunting people. His right to hunt people stops where my right to live in a free society instead of a society of fortresses begins. So I think if we make those high capacity clips illegal to sell or buy, we have solved part of the problem. No one is going after game hunters and their guns, but those of us who live in cities have less chance of dying in a pointless, bloody massacre that no one has a "right" to impose on us anyway.

That's my take on it.