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Title: The Folly of Gun Control
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Tea Party Community
URL Source: https://www.teapartycommunity.com/b ... 1945/the-folly-of-gun-control/
Published: Feb 1, 2013
Author: ericbl
Post Date: 2013-02-01 17:47:02 by ericbl
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Views: 1384
Comments: 3
I’m getting really tired of all of this blather about banning so-called "assault weapons". First, there is no such gun classification as an "assault weapon". The term "assault weapon" is a political term, concocted by the Democrats in the 1990's for the purposes of scaring uninformed people. Second, banning things doesn't work. Fully automatic weapons have been banned in the U.S. since the 1920's, yet there are plenty of gang members and mobsters who have them. The U.S. government has spent countless billions of dollars in the U.S., Mexico and Columbia trying to eradicate illicit drugs, yet there is more cocaine and marijuana in the country that ever. I can cite other examples of how banning things just doesn't work. (Yes, some conservatives need to learn a lesson here too.) Third, last year more people were murdered with hammers (about 600) than rifles (about 350). Murders committed with semi-automatic "assault" rifles were a tiny fraction of the murders committed with all rifles. Most gun murders (about 9,000) involved hand guns, not rifles, and certainly not "assault" rifles. There were an additional 4,000 murders in the U.S. last year that didn't involve any kind of gun at all. Over 700 people were murdered with bare hands. Osama bin Laden didn't need an "assault" rifle to kill 3,000 people. Timothy McVeigh didn't need one to kill 168 people either. If someone is hell bent on causing mayhem, they will find a way to do it with or without guns. As usual, all of this blather about "assault" rifles is nothing but more feel good nonsense from the politicians, which won't accomplish anything of real value.
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#1. To: ericbl (#0)
What do you think the real purpose is then?
Welcome to LF n00b. When choosing arms, lethality is a good thing. Yeah it scares hoplophobes, but that's tough since it could save your life. Fully automatic weapons are considered legal in most states, IF you have the appropriate tax stamp. You can't buy a new one, since manufacture is prohibited by illegal legislation (except for use by elite alphabet agencies), so they're very pricey. They have an event at Knob Creek every year, and they burn up thousands of rounds in automatic fire. The so called assault weapons ban stinks, but even worse is the universal background check legislation, which may be more likely to pass. That means that you must beg the government for permission to have any gun at all. They can call you crazy... no gun, or a Tea Party wacko, or whatever and attempt to deny you your God given right to keep and bear arms. That's obviously worse than just banning SOME guns. There are apparently many Republicans and Democrats in favor of this. Charlton Heston and Wayne LaPierre screwed the pooch by endorsing background checks and the '68 GCA. It was an illegal slippery slope bad idea then, and it's even worse now that it may become universal, everywhere and for everyone and everything.
It's one more step in discrediting the opposition. We've been a free country for a long time. But, we've been slowly losing our freedom. The government is not going to suddenly send troops into our homes. I wish they would, because we would stand up and defeat them. Instead, they are going to continue to take our freedom away, one step at a time. Every step of the way, the government will gain more power over us. They are boiling a frog -- slow but sure.
As usual, all of this blather about "assault" rifles is nothing but more feel good nonsense from the politicians, which won't accomplish anything of real value.
#2. To: ericbl (#0)
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Fully automatic weapons have been banned in the U.S. since the 1920's
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#3. To: A K A Stone (#1)
What do you think the real purpose is then?
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